Review: Decided not to finish this book.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
According to the Amazon scale, two stars means I don't like it.  That pretty much sums it up.  I want to be fair to other readers and admit that I according to my Kindle, have only read about 44% of this book.  The thing is, it's taken multiple attempts to get even this far.  This work is not written particularly well.  I believe the author has promise, but my enduring a so-so work will not help that.I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the main character in a mail order bride book, marries someone.  Driving home for the first time together, not knowing one another at all, she asks "why did you marry me?"  The groom whom she knows pretty much not at all, goes on about her wondrous characteristics as if he knows her very soul.  This sort of fantasy is not only a bit absurd, it's dangerous to real relationships.  This can be overlooked by putting this in the class of feminine escapism in spite of how destructive I think it is, as long as we're all on the same page.  It's absurd.The reason I have decided to let myself off the hook from having to finish this, is the author's complete inability to effectively use pronouns.  If I hear Cassie said, or Cassie thought or Cassie looked, in one more series of multiples in the same paragraph, I may scream.I have read enough to say that the premise of this book outpaced the authors writing at least to this point.  With the number of self-published works available on Amazon, my time will be better spent moving on to another.  I do not recommend this work whether or not this is a preferred genre of the reader.  There are many others that are written with better character development, less needy main characters, and a more comfortable, less stilted writing style.