Overall: 2/5
Plots and Themes: 2/5
Characters: 2/5
Writing Style: 2/5
Attention Grabbing: 3/5
This book is the fourth book in The Wife Lottery series but can be read as a standalone. It follows Nell, who was a young and crazy orphan in the first book but is now a young woman who was injured saving her friends (featured in the previous novels). She sees the land she has inherited from her guardian and knows that it would be best to have someone to help her manage it all and so she puts out an advertisement for a husband.
Enter Jacob Dalton, who decides that if anyone is going to marry her to protect her it's going to be him. This just got progressively weirder and ickier as the plotline went on, but I chose to ignore the age difference for the resolution. But I was sort of expecting a resolution that cinched all the plotlines and the whole Zeb thing forever, since that's how her injury arc started out. But really, it was a weird combination of different smaller conflicts till the ultimate danger that was over as fast as it started.
I don't like it in books when a character has something to overcome and the author sort of speeds through the entire journey to getting to the point that it's been overcome. Like, I recognize that we don't want to see someone complaining about an injury for 300 pages. But the ending was lackluster to me because it cut scene right and skipped a couple months and didn't explain it all to us. Other than that, the book was a pretty standard western romance. Definitely not my favorite or my favorite in this series, but it was okay.
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