Review: Nothing like what I expected
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2014
OMG. I can't say how much I loved this book. By the name of it and the cover you'd think it was sex, sex, sex (well, there is that lol but it was good and tasteful in my opinion although I thought it was way too descriptive it would have been better if it was more vague and not so detailed). I guess I loved this book so much because I saw my younger teenage self in the main female character. When her family dies she leaves Mexico to try to find her grandparents living in the states. On the way she is traveling on foot with barely any food and she is beaten up by some drug dealers. She passes out and Travis' farm workers find her and bring her in. They all mistake her for a boy but Travis recognizes right away that she's not a boy. Travis is very old fashioned and that's what I love about him as a main character. He never hurts her or abuses her in any way but he is very controlling and possessive of her. What I like about the main female character, Selina, is that she stands her ground where her morals are concerned but yet she is not against a man taking care of her and supporting her. She is willing to go out and make it on her own in the world to not compromise her faith yet she is willing to let a man take care of her if it is proper. I just can't say how much I loved this book. I loved it because of how old fashioned it was. She obeyed Travis as long as it did not mean having sex with him out of marriage or compromising herself.This heroine is not one of those headstrong stubborn ones. She cooks and cleans and Travis and all of the men are impressed with her feminine skills. They all protect her and are willing to defend her if need be even against their boss. Travis also adores her feminine skills and is happy that her mother must have taught her to perform her wifely duties (as in woman's traditional duties). This isn't normally the type of book I would give a second glance at and I certainly never expected it would be this good. This books was recommended to me and I decided to give it a chance. There were areas I just wanted to cry because it touched my heart. Others might not see it that way but I did. An old fashioned romance with old fashioned characters. She never does a man's work and never wants to. She never complains about feminine duties or her role as a woman. She cooks, she cleans and she has a good heart. I could never have imagined such an old fashioned book of the sort would be hidden in a modern day romance. I am so grateful for such good storytelling.There is some kind of graphic sex towards the end of the book. Given the name of the book and the fact that we are in the post 50 shades era I must stress that there is no sex "play" like BDSM. Far from it. The title of the book means what it says. She's is under his control in the book and she does submit to him and does what he tells her. Never does she complain about him being controlling. Nowhere does she start spouting off feminist dogma. I kept waiting but it never happened. It was so refreshing.********SPOILERS**********I love how the old man looked after her and cared for her. He made sure to enforce to Travis that he needed to do the right thing and either send her on to live somewhere else where she could make it or marry her. I also love how she told Travis that she didn't want him to spend excess money on her but she she put up no argument if he insisted. I also love how she didn't see any need to have "protected" sex with her husband because it was OK if she got pregnant as they were married.