COURTING TROUBLE by Maggie Marr

Courting Trouble by Maggie Marr
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

NetGalley free read...

There just wasn't much to this story. I could tell you where it was going from the first moment. Savannah was boring and one dimensional. She just seemed so angry. I understand her not wanting her daughter to be hurt by her father, but it felt like the character was more upset that he wasn't around early on in their relationship, therefore she didn't want him in her daughter's life.

As for Cade... If he loved Tulsa so much, he should have gone after her to find out why she left and not waited 20 years until she came back to ask her the question. Also, how blind could Cade be to his father's machinations. His father even treated his half brother Wayne poorly. To blindly believe his father, even though he was his father was dumb. Your parents are infallible.

Now Tulsa flip-flopped so much that I didn't know if she was coming or going. Ad for some wo was almost 40 years old and as successful as she was should have been better able to communicate who she was, what she wanted and what happened to her. She just never seemed clear on her feelings and after so many years, it should have been easy to say. Example is when her sister confronts her about looking into her mother's death. I mean, I don't care what discomfort I may have to go through and what other people think, there is no way I would want to let anyone get away with her death and I would want to know what happened. I just thought that Tulsa should have been able to explain that. I realize their mother wasn't June Cleaver, but still being left in a ditch or just dropped off at the hospital wasn't a cool way for her to be treated.

And for that matter, once Cade knew all that his father had done, he forgave so easily. I get that the man's days were numbered, but still. It was just too easy.

I didn't feel that the story as a whole had any high stakes. If a judge let the kid go to Alaska with her father, where his job wasn't stable, he wouldn't be around much to make sure she had rules and bouderies and just basically let her move to Alaska because she wanted to, and there was nothing that Savannah had done to cause her to lose custody would have been ridiculous.

I don't know, there was just so much detail that I didn't care about, it just wasn't the story for me.

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