Review: This one is hard to review!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
"Delicious" is a hard working very young woman (do I remember that she is only 18?)  who loves her stepchildren that she has only known for a short time, just as if she had given birth to them all.  She headed west to fulfill her promise to her dead husband who was borderline abusive, taking his five children on a wagon train, without wagon or supplies to speak of.  She encounters the experienced wagon master who, it so happens, is the wonderful, kind younger brother to her dead husband, and uncle to the children.The way she second guessed every order he gave....and made her own rules, absolutely drove me crazy.  She paid for her mistakes with injuries, and losses over and over, but still did as she pleased, thinking she knew better than "Zeke" who was completely in love with her and tried to protect her, even when she was so headstrong.Never did figure out the "deed" thing.  That made no sense.  What was it about?I don't know...... This author writes well...but I can't figure where she was coming from, ....if this expressed a problem with authority, or if she just didn't realize that a real traveler with Delly's mind set,would never have made it to Oregon alive.I would read this author's books again, but I have to say that as  devoted to the children as she was, I didn't much like Delicious.  She was somewhat of a train wreck,  but I thought Zeke was terrific.  Oh well..... Pretty unrealistic story, ....but it's fiction, right?