Simple Jess
by:
Pamela Morsi (author)
The last thing widow Althea Winsloe wants to do is remarry, but her meddlesome mountain neighbors have no intention of letting her stay single. So one day, they give her an ultimatum--find a husband by Christmas or the town of Marrying Stone will do it for her!
The last thing widow Althea Winsloe wants to do is remarry, but her meddlesome mountain neighbors have no intention of letting her stay single. So one day, they give her an ultimatum--find a husband by Christmas or the town of Marrying Stone will do it for her!
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940012938664 (0012938661)
Publish date: June 3rd 2011
Publisher: Pamela Morsi
Edition language: English
Series: Marrying Stone (#2)
I've fallen behind in my reviews, so this is just a quicky: The folksy/backwoods Appalachian dialect in this made me crazy and diminished my enjoyment of the story (even though I recognize it was well done). I did enjoy the premise, though--widow forced to remarry chooses the town simpleton. Intel...
I'm reminded of Tropic Thunder, and Stiller's character who once was in a movie titled Simple Jack. Fortunately, Jess is smarter than Jack (not hard really; Stiller played Jack) This book, around fellow romance readers, is like, the holy grail or something. People speak in reverence about it. W...
Question: If a heroine was raised in the Ozarks by her kin, in a teeny tiny town perched on the side of a mountain, where no one came in from away, and no one left, folks jumped over a rock to celebrate a weddin', they say words like "caint" and are so intermarried they caint right remember what cl...
3.5 starsFrom others' reviews, I expected something different; something more. This was a sweet love story all right, but it was not the swoon worthy romance I'd been led to expect. I think the 2 other potential suitors of Miss Althea and their side stories took too much space from the main love sto...
Aww. I saw this constantly listed as a favorite by GR friends, and between the high expectations and the premise - I was never moved to read it. But once I got through the ornery first chapter, it was great fun, and quite sweetly sentimental at the end there - not just for the Althea and Jess but ...
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