MY REVIEW:
Too Rich For A Bride is the second book in Mona Hodgson’s series The Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek and features the oldest Sinclair sister, Ida who is more interested in pursuing a career than a husband. Interestingly enough, although she immediately obtains a good job working for Mollie O’Bryan, she finds herself pursued by not one but two eligible men. Colin Wagner, the dapper lawyer appears to be the most suitable beau but Ida finds herself more attracted to the entirely unsuitable itinerant preacher/iceman Tucker Raines.
The basic concept for Too Rich For A Bride is a good one but I would like to have seen a bit more plot and character development as well as more details about the progress of Ida’s romance. Then too, more build-up to the suspenseful confrontation would have been nice. For me it was somewhat unexpected and over and done with much too quickly.
Other than that, I found Too Rich For A Bride to be a light, entertaining read that is perfect for a lazy summer day.
This book was provided for review by Blogging For Books.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
As the business-savvy Sinclair sister, Ida has never wanted to settle down.
Instead of love, she craves success.
But while searching for one, she just might find the other.
Ida Sinclair has joined her sisters, Kat and Nell, in the untamed mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado for one reason: to work for the infamous but undeniably successful businesswoman, Mollie O’Bryan. Ida’s sisters may be interested in making a match for their determined older sister, but Ida only wants to build her career.
Under Mollie’s tutelage, Ida learns how to play the stock market and revels in her promising accomplishments. Fighting for respect in a man’s world, her ambition leaves little room for distractions. She ignores her family’s reservations about Mollie O’Bryan’s business practices, but no matter how she tries, she can’t ignore the two men pursuing her affections—Colin Wagner, the dashing lawyer, and Tucker Raines, the traveling preacher.
Ida wants a career more than anything else, so she shrugs off the suitors and pointed “suggestions” that young ladies don’t belong in business. Will it take unexpected love—or unexpected danger—for Ida to realize where her priorities truly lie?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
In 1987, Mona Hodgson began writing articles, poems, and short stories for publication and has had several hundred printed in more than 50 different publications. Her publishing credits now include two historical novels, nearly 30 children’s books, and contributions to 11 books for adults.
Mona is a speaker for women’s retreats, schools, conferences for educators and librarians, and at writers’ conferences throughout the United States and Canada. She holds professional memberships in the American Christian Fiction Writers, Romance Writers of America, Women Writing the West, Christian Authors Network, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, the Society of Southwestern Authors, and Arizona Reading Association.
