Review: Mixed Feelings, but she gets better
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
This is a good read, if one can get pass the ignorance of the heroine. Many factors are at play here. Many characters are well drawn and their emotional conflicts well written and engaging. The author shows that she knows how to develop conflict and add depth to characters. She will do so with absolute finesse in The Wedding Runaway. This is a good start to the series.I read this because I had read The Wedding Runaway and I liked that one; however, I have mixed feelings about this book. I felt that Sophie was just not naive, but, at times, plain stupid. No young lady, no matter how sheltered, could be that ignorant. Also, her parents were just as unbelievably stupid.Another reviewer said this book was all about sex, but you won't be reading a lot of sex scenes as implied and the wait for the first one is quite long. The author can write, she just badly wrote the heroine in this one. Thankfully the glimpses we have of Sophie in The Wedding Runaway show her as a more mature lady.The heroine aside, the author weaves more than one plot into her story with just the right balance. There is no 'wake up one day and they're in love' scenario. The male leads are strong without being too macho and the emotions are palpable. The discord between George and his wife is heartbreaking, Victor matures through the novel, which is a good set up for his own The Wedding Runaway. Things work out, yet the ending is not too neat. I look forward to more from this author.