Audiobook Review: The Dreaming of His Convenient Kiss by Jessie Gussman (on Hoopla)

The Dreaming of His Convenient Kiss
by Jessie Gussman (Hoopla Audio)

This is a cozy, Christian Fiction romance that begins as an epistolary novel (almost entirely of their emails back-and-forth) which gradually introduces the characters to us and to each other. The characters are likeable as are their friends, his family, and the town.

 

Natalie Moody is having housing and, just in general, money issues. Her rental house has been condemned and she and her five children must relocate. She contacts an online dating service for those seeking a marriage of convenience and has the email address of someone who is undaunted at the idea of marrying a young woman with five children. But she mistypes the address and ends up texting with Denver Barclay.

 

Denver is a welder who is working on a ship-at-sea doing underwater welding, a dangerous job between the sharks, the weather, the job itself, and the threat of decompression sickness (the bends). While he enjoys the high salary he’s making for this job, he’s eager to return home for the holidays – and possibly forever – to his farm.

 

This is Book #02 in the Cowboy Mountain Christmas series. One does not need to have read the first book as you quickly sort out who the other characters are. A short listen at only 10-hours.

 

I ran across this book during an author promotion on one of my Facebook author/book pages. She neglected to mention this is Christian Fiction and I’m not normally a reader of that genre (though I like Jan Karon’s Mitford series, and love Mary Connealy’s “Petticoat Ranch”).

 

So I can’t say I enjoyed this title because this isn’t really my niche. But the characters were well-drawn and the storyline was interesting and kept you involved. The author had me at “Cowboy,” “Mountain,” and “Christmas” in the series title, but Denver is not a cowboy and this wasn’t the Hallmark cowboy mountain Christmas romance thing I was anticipating.

 

However, if you enjoy the Amish romances and Christian Fiction by Francine Rivers, then this is right up your alley.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Petticoat Ranch by Mary Connealy.)

( official Jessie Gussman web site )

 

Recommended by Charlotte M.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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