Review: Not a prequel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
Mail Order Mayhem (Brides of Beckham)is the first in the Brides of Beckham series. Someone mentioned it to be a prequel. However, I disagree as in my eyes a prequel would have given the background/communality of the Beckham brides books. It does not. The communality is the Harriet Long, the owner of a match making agency specializing in mail order bride. We don't learn much about Harriet, other than that she is a young widow, apparently independently wealthy, kind and who walks with a limp. Somehow, I hope that the author will eventually satisfy this reader's questions and write the story of Harriet Long.Mail Order Mayhem (Brides of Beckham)is a short novella. It is an easy read; an innocent but spirited young woman, Maude fleeing an arranged marriage to a disgusting "older" man, Horace. The book was rather cliché, the villain, the good looking hero and not to forget the SIL who was named perfectly "Annie".There was not a lot of depth to the story but I liked it nevertheless. I will be reading the third,Mail Order Madness (Brides of Beckham), having read the second,Mail Order Mama (Brides of Beckham)first, next.Again, I do hope the author will eventually write Harriet's story and not the story of each of the twelve letters inquiring about mail order brides, we heard about in the first and second story.