Sadly, Mary Fran and Matthew was one of those novellas that I feel was a bit of a waste. It read more like a collection of deleted scenes rather than as its own short story. It spans the entire time frame of The Bridegroom Wore Plaid, but shoved into a quarter of the pages. I did want to see how Matthew and Mary Frances ended up together, since they were one of the "extra" couples in the first book, and this does show all of that, but it didn't flow well. It just jumped from scene to scene of them together, and that was it. It was actually quite boring, and I felt no connection to either of them. The one thing I did really liked was how it showed that Matthew and Eugenia's father was even more of a scumbag than I thought! He certainly got what was coming to him!
