Emma, Mr. Knightley, and Chili-Slaw Dogs

I grabbed this at the library during the CFD retellings challenge and just now got around to finishing it. For the most part I really enjoyed it, once I got past the first few chapters, and near the end I liked how the author gave such a subtle and appropriate scene of how the heroine walked into the room and the hero was so overcome by loving her that he dropped a book, and she just thought he was clumsy. But, the same night, the heroine accidentally got spiked punch...and not just kissed the hero, but made out with him on the sofa, pulling him down on top of her and liking the feel of his weight on her body and only getting stopped by her mother coming downstairs looking for her.

That's just totally inappropriate. Drunk or not. And the hero certainly wasn't drunk.

I liked the writing and I liked the characters. My copy was well edited and I had a hard time putting it down once I got into the story. But I may or may not read more of this author because of that scene. The book is a four-star, but I'm taking off two stars because of having a make-out session that was considered just fine in a Christian book. One star for the making out, one star for not even feeling the need to excuse it or be embarrassed by it.