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Borrowed Light

2011Carla Kelly

1.6/5

This is a tremendously hard book for me to review.I'm such a fan of Carla Kelly and when I found out she was writing a western I was immediately on board and just knew I would love it. I loved certain aspects of the story, but others completely turned me off and made it hard for me to enjoy. Very hard.If you don't already know, this book is an inspirational romance written for the LDS (Mormon) market. I don't personally hold with the LDS belief system but I'm not a bigot, and I do not judge anyone for their beliefs. That being said, the message that I got when reading this was that all other Christians are somehow "not quite as good as" the LDS population. Being a Christian woman myself, it was hard for me not to take offense at some of the statements made by the heroine in this book, but I continued reading.The story itself, minus the religious overtone, is a very good one. A young woman answers an ad for a cook on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Coming out of a disastrous engagement, she felt that the time away from home and everything she knew would give her perspective and help her to decide exactly what she wanted out of life. The rugged rancher she works for is quite the enigma: both closed off emotionally at times, yet chock full of tender sentiment when he thinks no one is looking. They both got more than they bargained for in this arrangement. I loved the hero. I love the secondary characters. I even liked the heroine, despite my earlier statement. Combined as a whole, however, I just wasn't able to enjoy the book like I wanted to.After reading the story, I did a little research and discovered that Ms. Kelly is no longer going to write mainstream romance. She has decided to write exclusively for the LDS market, and I wish her well. While I will certainly seek out her previous catalog of regency romance, I won't be wishlisting any new ventures she undertakes, and for someone who truly enjoys her writing, that's a sad thing.
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