GRR Reviews A Bride for Tom by Ruth Ann Nordin

A Bride for Tom is a pretty basic triangle novella that just felt a bit too simplistic in the characters, but that may be due to its limited length.

Tom Larson gets super-clumsy and tongue-tied around women, but he's desperate to move out and create his own household. When Tom managed to be refused by most of the town's single women at the town barn dance, Jessica Reynolds decided to help him overcome his awkwardness. But Jessica is already engaged, and even as she's failing to rehabilitate Tom's reputation, Jessica realized something... Her fiancee has no backbone (everything's controlled by his mother) and Jessica found herself attracted to the kind Tom instead...

Not bad for a short, as it's sweet and all that. A bit too overly dramatic, perhaps, but for novella it's actually decent.

Category: Historical/Western

Primary Plot: Engaged woman agreed to help a man rejected by all the girls in town, then she realized the rejected man is really nice...

Overall Rating: 4/5

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