I must admit that the front cover of this book first caught my eye (who doesn’t like a pretty cover?) and then the blurb drew me in. What A Bride Wants is the first book in a new series set in the fictional town of Marietta, Montana, where each new book in the series is written by a different author.
This book is about Ella Grace Emerson, local ranching heir and Cameron Sawyer, the sexy Australian bartender working at the local bar. Ella’s meddling father decides to take out a personal ad for his daughter in a newspaper in order to find her a ‘docile house husband’. In retaliation Ella puts her own ad up on the noticeboard at the local bar where Sawyer works, seeking a lover instead of a husband. Sawyer decides to answer her ad and a romance begins.
What a Bride Wants is a nice, sweet western romance. I really enjoyed the chemistry between Ella and Sawyer and the dialogue between them had me giggling out loud. My only criticism is that I felt the story was a little too rushed. Everything happened so fast in the story that I wasn’t given enough time to really enjoy Ella and Sawyer falling in love and battling the odds. While this book is a novella, it could have easily been another 100 pages longer to really develop the characters and delve a bit deeper with the plot.
Overall, What a Bride Wants was a great fun and fast read. This is the first Kelly Hunter book I’ve read and she has now become an author I will look out for in the future.
*ARC provided by netgalley in exchange for an honest review*