This has been a very slow summer for reading, but I brought a stack of books with me on my vacation and I plan to work my way through some of my TBR pile – even if my “virtual” TBR pile is getting to be almost as large as my paper one!
Married by June by Ellen Hartman (HSR 1711)
(2011, Contemporary Series)
Grade: 3.5
Jorie Burke and Cooper Murphy got engaged after only knowing each other a few months, so that her dying mother could plan her daughter’s perfect wedding. But now both Jorie and Cooper are wondering if they did the right thing. They’re about to call it off when a crisis in Cooper’s political family puts them back together… at least temporarily.
I wanted to like this book more. It had a lot of great elements – a likeable hero and heroine, an interesting backstory for the heroine, an unusual backdrop of politics. But somehow it just felt a little… blah. On one hand, I felt like I was being dropped in the middle of a series since there were a lot of references to things that happened before the book started. (Actually, I don’t think it is part of a series, which makes it more confusing.) On the other hand, I found myself checking to see how many pages were left, wondering when the “real” story would start. It just seemed to meander along when it needed more umph. It wasn’t a bad book, just not one that made me want to keep turning the pages.
I really liked Ellen Hartman’s first book so I’m hopeful that her other books are more interesting! I felt like there was a much more interesting story hiding in this book somewhere.
Karen Wheless
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