Courting Cate Audiobook

Leslie Gould has received critical and popular acclaim for her #1 CBA best-selling faith-based fiction. An Amish-themed retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, Courting Cate is the first book in Gould's Courtships of Lancaster County series. Betsy Miller has plenty of suitors vying for her hand. But her father says she cannot marry until her older sister Cate does. Betsy's prayers are answered when Peter Treger arrives in town, allowing her to concoct a scheme to get Cate to the altar.

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"The description of Courting Cate sounded just like my type of novel and exactly what I needed to get me back into reading after about a six month break from books (BTW not intentional break just life turning a different corner than expected and I lost a lot of my free/reading time). I really enjoy a romance that begins with one or both of the people not liking the other and then seeing love grow and blossom between them so I was hooked from page one. I thought Cate was a good balance between the feisty, spirited spinster who had been burned in the past and the loving daughter and mother-figure to her little sister Betsy. Pete enters her life and immediately is attracted to her sharp tongue and love of reading and learning. The book is written in the first person point of view which turned me off at first but Leslie Gould wrote it so well that I got used to it and actually enjoyed being inside Cate's head. There where a few things that I thought were inconsistent with the characters personalities and at times were down-right unbelievable. The first one (which drove me absolutely insane) was that Cate, being out-spoken and blunt almost to the point of rudeness, didn't just come out and ask Pete if he was interested in her for her dad's money. She certainly wasn't shy with her opinions so I think she wouldn't have let that float for so long without getting an answer. Second, Betsy went from being sweet and loving in the beginning of the book to being selfish, self-absorbed, mean and unlikeable. She didn't even seem like the same person by the end of the book. Third, Pete was the perfect catch in the beginning of the book. He was funny, good-natured, smart and gentlemanly then all of a sudden he turns into an unfeeling, insensitive brute! Pete tries to explain it off later by saying that he used reverse psychology on Cate to get her to fall for him but I don't know how she could have fallen in love with him after being treated that way. I totally didn't believe it! Finally, the change in Pete's mom at the end was so abrupt that I thought I missed something. She was cold and demanding almost to the very end and then we are given a brief glimpse of a warm, friendly woman and Cate suddenly sees how wonderful she is. I hope I don't sound overly critical because I really did like the book (hence the four stars) and if it hadn't been for the things I mentioned, I would have given it five stars. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series to see what happens with all the secondary characters."

— Zette (4 out of 5 stars)