Thank you to St. Martin's Press for providing me with a gifted copy of AN UNORTHODOX MATCH.
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I'm struggling with how to rate/review this one. There were a lot of things I loved about the story, but the execution fell a little flat for me.

What I liked:
- The Orthodox rep!! This was a major plus. Most books out there about Orthodox Judaism is in a negative light or is about someone leaving the sect. It was so nice to see some positive representation. It's a big win for Orthodox Jews to be able to see themselves in a romance novel.
- If you don’t know much about Orthodox culture, you will learn a lot from this book. There's also a glossary in the back for terms the reader might not know.
- The life lessons and every day struggles portrayed. There were a lot of things to get out of this book including the stigma of mental illness, treating others with respect, accepting a stranger and more.

What I didn't like:
- It was too slow for me. I felt as though nothing happened until the last ~50 pages. I kept waiting and waiting for something to come and it didn't. I thought there was a lot of unnecessary detail and dialogue.
- There wasn't really a plot? It was kind of obvious what was going to happen in the end (not a bad thing, just in the typical romance novel you-know-who-is-getting-together way), but it felt it just took a lot of words without action to get there.

So, with that said, I'm still not sure how to rate this. Like I said, I really loved the idea and concept, but not so much the execution.