Review: Poor Orphan Becomes Mail Order Bride
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
This was a very easy read that only took a little over an hour. I liked the idea of an orphan with no place to go, and no other alternative but to become a mail order bride--unless you wanted to become a prostitute.  (I can't imagine being a woman and having to live under such circumstances.) I found the "evil mom/daughter" pair of Mrs. Davis and Charlotte to add something extra to the straightforward plot, and actually to be humorous at times.  I thought of Nellie Olson from "Little House on the Prairie" series when I read anything to do with Charlotte.  I would have liked to have seen her put in her place before the book ended, but maybe that will happen in the future.  It was very apparent that Red Ned would do something bad to Summer--I hate when I can easily see things coming.  I had a bit of an issue with the modern slang of "honey." I don't know that people would have used that term of endearment at that time in history. There were also several distracting typos--whether words added, missing, or the wrong word used--and that drives me insane.  Get a good editor!