(First real post! Hip-hip-hooray! I hope you like it!) Personal Rating: 3 Stars Goodreads Rating: 3.82 Stars Due to her parents' promise at her birth, Lady Rosemarie has been prepared to become a nun on the day she turns eighteen. Then, a month before her birthday, a friend of her father's enters the kingdom and proclaims her parents' will left a second choice. If Rosemarie can marry before the eve of her eighteenth year, she will be exempt from the ancient vow. Before long, Rosemarie is presented with the three most handsome and brave knights in the land. But when the competition for her heart seemingly results in a knight playing foul, she begins to wonder if the cloister is the best place after all. If only one of the knights the one who appears the most guilty had not already captured her heart. (goodreads.com) Sounds a bit like medieval Bachelorette, doesn’t it? A girl, potential suitors, competitions, romantic outings, a choice to make… yep sounds a lot like a certain reality TV show. For parts of the book it does get kind of ridiculous how much the main character, Rosemarie, thinks about these three men who have come to woo her. However, it is understandable as she only has a month to fall in love and that is the main plot of the book. Of course there is more than just romance happening in this story, there is also some jousting, some fighting, some praying, some chess playing - oh! And a man almost gets boiled alive. The amount of torture methods used in this book was surprising, since it is supposed to be a romance. Personally, I kind of enjoyed the exciting and gruesome tortures, though I was always relieved when the victims got rescued. The boiling, stretching, branding, tongue ripping, and other horrible sounding things added some spice to the story. It was unexpected and interesting. Most of this book held my interest well. The plot twists were a bit predictable, and occasionally I would become bored with Rosemarie constantly questioning how she felt and how the love interest felt and what everybody was thinking and what they thought of her and what she thought of them and so forth and so on. Lady Rosemarie started out as a rather annoying character with way too many worries about what people thought of her. She ended as a not-so-annoying character with a few less worries about what people thought of her. What I’m saying is, there wasn’t a ton of character development going on with our MC, but there was enough to make her less irritating. Something else that bothered me was the writing style. It wasn’t hard to read or anything, but it was just hard for me to get into the first person narrative. As I’m finding is common for Christian novels, the protagonist has a lot of thoughts about things and, lucky us, we get to read every single one of those thoughts. It just bothered me how much she told the reader and how little was shown. Besides that I had no problems. Well, apart from the random uses of “you’re” when “you are” would have fit the style of speech much better in most instances. Besides that, no problems with the writing. Some of the aspects of this novel that I really enjoyed were the descriptions, the villain, the dog, and Rosemarie’s ability to turn to God for all of her worries. I didn’t feel like this book had some big huge message for me, just that it was a regular story with some Christian values. While I enjoyed the change from some of the more preach-y Christian fiction, I do wish that a personal relationship with Christ had been mentioned, as I couldn’t find one. All together, I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to someone who isn’t nitpicky about character development, writing style, or historical accuracy and just wants a nice story to read. I very highly recommend reading the prequel, The Vow, before reading this because it clears up a lot of the backstory. Well, thanks for reading my first post that’s actually about books and not just about me. I hope you liked it and that you’ll come back on Wednesday when I post another review-opinion-thingy. ¡Adios! Image:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22900446-an-uncertain-choice?from_new_nav=true&ac=1&from_search=true
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