Review: Pearl of Promise
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
After years of reading dime novels about the excitement of the west, Nora is ecstatic to be a mail order bride, and can wait to marry miner Arlen.  Their marriage is happy at first, but over time Nora becomes disenchanted with the mundaneness of every day life.  She tries to escape by reading more books and visiting with friends, but Arlen keeps finding ways  to parent her from such things.  Why won't Arlen let her go to town? And why can't she read a book? Arlen becomes so obsessed that he soon puts their daughter in danger.  Will their daughter survive, and will their marriage?A quick, simple read about how miscommunication and misunderstanding can destroy a marriage. For a novella, I liked it well enough.