Love in the Details

How to break into a new-ish genre for me, Christian romance? Venn diagram book bloggers' recommendations and my library's catalogue.
I finished it, but...
This isn't an author I'll read more of. My quibbles are various and serious.
The Christian faith of the MCs seemed decorative rather than fundamental to conflict/character/plot. The book would have been better for me without it as a flourish. It was confusing to me: faith and prayer are interesting, complicated, vivid, surprising in my own life; here they seemed like a think cultural veneer that just went along with the setting rather than a source of character development or conflict/resolution.
The shallow use of faith matched shallowness in supporting characters and main characters. The h's best friend was a thinly painted character (perhaps she had her own book and I missed it?) with a nameless husband who did all the home chores so she could be an indulged princess (yuck!). Friend's advice to the h on how to get a man included wearing tighter clothes and getting gel nails. (You should see the expression on my face as I recall this because–...???!!! What the WHAT??) The main plot-turning actions of the characters also seemed kind of arbitrary and not arising from genuine character development. IOW, I didn't believe that these people were people, but rather paper dolls moved around by an author through a pre-plotted outline.
Why did I read the whole thing? It wasn't horrible.

by Andrea Renee Cox

While Love in the Details was a sweet romance, I was disappointed in this book. There was an expletive and at least one crude comment. The thing that bothered me the most, though, were the multiple mentions of advice for the lead female to see herself as superior to men, which is anti-Biblical (see Genesis 2:18 and 1 Corinthians 11:3). This behavior was never corrected in the story, which told me it was being condoned. I cannot personally condone or recommend a book that is anti-Biblical like that.


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