A review by mslenakay
Driftwood Cottage by Sherryl Woods

3.0

This one bothered me at times for some reason. I didn't like the constant suggestion that they should get married just because they had a kid together. It was fine after you realized how much Connor loved Heather, but in the beginning of the book it wasn't as obvious yet. I was getting pretty sick of their archaic thinking regarding marriage. It was also troubling when people believed they should get married when Connor clearly didn't want to at the beginning. That made the characters seem less developed than I've seen in previous books. It was as if they were zombified into believing that all people with children together should be married and people must never divorce. Yes, that's the ideal world, but it's just not real, I wasn't a fan of the idea that it was the traditional way or else. I mostly enjoyed the book despite the constant advertisement for marriage.

The other thing I wasn't a fan of was always referring to the child as little Mick. It felt forced. The author should have either given him a nickname, just called him Mick in the hopes that we'd understand who she meant in the given context, OR named him something else. It's just not likely that they would always refer to him as little Mick. It felt forced.

This was my least favourite so far, but I still liked reading it for the most part.