Review: Decent, but Boring. **SPOILER ALERT**
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2013
I really didn't care for this book.  It was quite boring.  I finished it only because it was so short.  George takes Millie as a mail order bride at the urging of some of the women at his church because six months after his wife's death they can see that he desperately needs help with his four children (and quite frankly they are tired of being the ones to give him that help!)Millie lives in an orphanage where she has been since childhood.  She is almost eighteen and it is time for her to leave, but she has nowhere to go.  The director of the orphanage gives Millie a stack of letters from men looking for mail order brides and tells Millie to "pick one."  After reading all the letters Millie chooses George.Unfortunately, George, a 26 year old widower with four children, is looking for a mother for his children.  Millie responds to George's letter.  She meets all his requirements for a bride except one, so she lies. George and Millie meet at the altar when they are about to take their vows.  George shows up in his dirty work clothes for the ceremony.  After they are married George hardly says a word to Millie before returning to the farm and getting back to his chores.  As the days go by George and Millie exchange a few words and here and there.  They don't really spend any significant time together.  After being together for two weeks they are professing their love to each other (Please note that up until this point there has been no intimacy between the two and Millie has been sleeping with George's two daughters.).I was completely flabbergasted as I figured I must have missed something (and I had....it was the romance).The book is supposed to be a Christian historical romance, but it was completely missing the romance element.  The writing was ok, nothing outstanding.  As for the characters they were pretty much one dimensional.  I have no idea what Millie or George look like, except that George has brown hair, green eyes and a scruffy beard, ugh!  The story was told completely from Millie's point of view.....by which I mean we are privy to her thoughts and emotions, but we are given no information from George's POV.  Therefore, the only way we know what George is thinking or feeling is by what he says.  When he told Millie that he loved her I was completely bowled over, because at that point I wasn't even sure he liked her very much, much less love!I also couldn't see why Millie was in love with George.The only thing made clear by the story was that George helped guide Millie towards being a good Christian.  This story read more like a sermon about two people who happend to get married than as a romance about two people whose love grows with their faith.  I've read a number of Christian romances where the authors manage to interweave the Christian aspect in the story in such a way that it has a powerful impact without overwhelming the story.  That's absolutely not the case here.Bottom line, I would not recommend this book.  Happy reading!