Header PromotionMixed Blessings
Reviewed by OliviaWayne on May 23rd, 2008, 10:42am
Format: Print Books
Series: Steeple Hill Love Inspired
This was a very nice story. It had plenty of plot elements that moved it along quickly. Although the story's main premise, two boys swtiched at birth, seems a little far-fetched, it can and does occassionally happen, so that made the story exciting. Plus, the author knew her stuff on the medical side, so that helped smooth things over considerably.
One thing I found totally bizarre was that the author chose to name one of the three-year-old boys "Ricky." Yup, as in "Richard", a name no one has used since the mid- 1960s at the very latest. As a reader, I want to suspend my disbelief, but come on, work with me here! Richard? You know, even if you have no idea what names are currently popular, all you have to do is visit www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ where you can look up names by the year of your character's birth and find what names were most popular, and which didn't even make the cut. In the case of little Ricky, it ranked 326th in 2001 (the year the character would have been born). Richard didn't even make the top thousand.
Other than that, I really like the book. 
Olivia...
...you cracked me up when I read this! The name issue is strange. It's equivalent to an author naming a little girl character Bertha or Lucinda or something just as old-as-the-hills. Priceless.
I'll definitely remember this point for my own stories: no Ricky's allowed
- unless they're named after their father, like Richard II. Even then, I think nicknames would be waaaay better, don't you? Thanks for the smile!
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