Customer Reviews

The Marrying Kind (The Marrying Kind Series #1) (Love Inspired #135)

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The Marrying Kind, by Cynthia Rutledge, is a great read for anyone who enjoys inspirational romances. If you enjoy reading romances, but don't want to read a novel filled with foul language or explicit sex than this book is perfect for you. Readers watch Taylor Rollins, a young women struggling to maintain her father's reputation after his death, as she falls in love with her handsome employer Nick Lanagan whose last desire is to get married. The book is funny , heartwarming, and sprinkled with inspirational truths that remind you that honesty is always the best policy, and that relationships with God and Family are more important than business.

I really enjoyed this book, it was hard to put done. It was a very romantic, lovely story. I agree with the other reviewer. It's nice to see a book without sex. This is a clean and sweet story. I highly recommend it.

What I like about all of Cynthia's books is that she portrays Christians as feeling passion (in the romantic, boy-girl sense), which is lacking in pretty much all the other Steeple Hill novels I have read. A book would only cease to be a purely Christian novel if premarital sex was given the green light, even though many Christians practice it.

Though I did not care for "Judging Sara" (I could not finish it--I just couldn't get into a guy named Crow), nor did I find "Wedding Bell Blues" a very fulfilling read (not much into Vegas weddings, either), I absolutely loved "Redeeming Claire", which is the sequel to this book, "The Marrying Kind". Claire Waters (one of the characters in this book) stole the show (or story, in this case) from Taylor, the heroine, but perhaps that was because Claire was funny and I had already fallen in love with her character from having read her story first. I might have enjoyed this story more had I experienced Nick and Taylor's romance first, for I was disappointed there wasn't more of the two secondary characters who would become the primary characters in "Redeeming".

But that's not to say this wasn't a good read. Perhaps I even enjoyed it more because of Claire and Tony being in it. The premise is pretty much the same, and to tell the truth, I recommend reading it primarily for the purpose of who Tony and Claire were before Tony became a minister and Claire was redeemed. Though I liked and respected Taylor in this book, her character wasn't all that interesting, whereas Claire was, although she was quite the little devil; Nick's character was about as interesting as Taylor's, and as for Tony--he became more my kind of guy in Cynthia's next book, as he was somewhat of a dolt in this one.