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This is the second book in Barry's McBride series, and I remain thoroughly charmed. I've taken to describing this series as "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers -- but with less problematic consent issues!" to my customers/friends.

Barry has a real knack for creating colorful characters (Junebug remains SUCH a stellar hellion) and slathering on the romantic tension until we, the audience, start screaming, "JUST KISS, YOU IDIOTS!" It can be infuriating watching the leads get too caught up in their own heads/own issues to recognize what's staring them right in the face, but those conflicts are done SO WELL, too. Barry really makes it understandable why her hero and heroine aren't immediately skipping off into the Happily Ever After horizon; she makes them, and us, really work for adn earn that HEA, dadgummit!

"Morgan McBride", like the "Kit McBride" book that came before it, is a pretty fast read that I very much wanted to finish in a single sitting. Now that it's over, I'm already impatient for the next installment in the series, about the pretty boy of the family, Beau. (And I sincerely hope the final book is all about Miss Unrepentant Matchmaker herself, Junebug!)