44. Saved by the Matchmaker. (A Shanahan Match #2) Jody Hedlund. 2024. 352 pages. [Source: Library] [3 stars]
First sentence: World's biggest fool. The words felt engraved on Enya Shanahan's forehead.
Premise/plot: Enya Shanahan's marriage has been annulled. That is great news. However, she'll always carry something with her from her first marriage--a child. What her family wants to find her is a husband--and quickly. Someone who is willing to marry a pregnant woman and raise the child as his own. There is such a guy who is desperate to find a wife quickly for his own reasons--something to do with his father or father's business. These two marry out of convenience, will it turn into a love match?
My thoughts: I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE marriage of convenience stories. This one was a thousand times better than the first book in the series which I truly despised. Okay, maybe that is taking it a couple steps too far. The good news is that I didn't get angry and stay angry at this book. So hooray?!
There are two things that still bothered me about this one.
First, this one still seemed to do a lot of line crossing when it comes to graphic content of the intimate sort. Though at least these two are technically married. But just because the fictional couple is married doesn't mean that the intimate scenes have to be written in an overly provocative, graphic way. In mainstream fiction, this would not be all that "steamy" or "smutty." This is a Christian novel, however, and I think there are plenty of readers who go out of their way to avoid just this. Not every Christian reader, mind you.
Second, it could have been so much better if it was a bit shorter. One conversation could have saved about a hundred pages of prolonged silly misunderstandings.
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