3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay, but many reservations, May 21, 2011
This review is from: A Wife Worth Waiting For (Everyday Miracles Series #3) (Love Inspired #14) (Mass Market Paperback)
First of all, let me point out that somehow I ended up with the secular version of this story...I'm not sure how much variation there was between the Love Inspired version and the Silhouette version...
But rather this was the secular version or not, I did not approve of the way Reverend Bolton Charles was portrayed. I do NOT believe the reverend we read about in the first two books would have been so...seductive and...sexual as what was portrayed in this story. I did NOT approve of the first kiss. I did NOT approve of him telling an unmarried woman that he wants her in his bed...that made me SICK!!! I wonder how this was written in the Love Inspired version? Did they french kiss and did he have her legs between his...feel the firmness of her breasts...etc...I was NOT happy! Even in a secular book, the preacher was not portrayed as a devout, spiritual leader of the church!!!
Now, let's move on to Clarice...She was such a...I don't know...I didn't like her and thought Bolton Charles could have done much better. She kept hanging onto some weird sense of "I can never get married..." She was being selfish. She just rubbed me the wrong way.
with the sex-crazed dialogue aside, I must applaud Bolton. I loved this guy. I loved how he took the boy, Trenton, and made him into a wonderful little boy!!! I also loved how he treated the grandfather. Bolton was the hero of this story and I loved him...
The ending of this book (disgustingly sexual scenes aside) was great! If you wish to read this book, I suggest you buy the Love Inspired version unless you don't mind seeing a man of God acting like a hormonal teenager...
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Life Lesson for Some Maybe?, May 3, 2009
This review is from: A Wife Worth Waiting For (Everyday Miracles Series #3) (Love Inspired #14) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is one of those feel good books that you will just enjoy, even though I got frustrated with Clarice and her feeling that to be independent you could not be married. I realize that she had been hurt and that made her feel that she needed to not lean on a man, but it seemed that she had a difficult time realizing that you could be strong, married and independent that marriage is give and take ... leaning and being leaned on ... without living in the shadow of the other. In the end of course, she realized it but it took the help of her son to get her to that place in her life to trust that she could actually be strong enough to be a married, independent woman in love!
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