Review: WRITTEN FOR VERY YOUNG WOMEN
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
This book is really written more for the 13-16 year olds.  It's a "clean" book based on Christian principles about a young woman who is an orphan who must leave the home she is living in.  The woman running the orphanage gives her letters from men wanting Mail Order Brides as a solution to her pending homeless situation.  She picks a man looking for an older woman (22 or so - she is just 18 years old) lies about her age and sets out to marry the man who doesn't really want a wife being newly widowed but who needs someone to take care of his kids.  Well, from the beginning this "Christian man" treats Millie with little respect and condescending tolerance in an attempt to "make her a true Christian."  As a mature reader I had little patience with the tone of this book.  Millie is beautifully dressed for her wedding, he is in dirty work clothes showing at the beginning little to no respect for his "new bride" the house is filthy, the kids are dirty, and she is expected to take care of the children, clean, cook, wash the laundry etc. all because it's her duty as his wife while he works in the field leaving her alone to these tasks as soon as they get to his homestead just after the "wedding."  Somehow within a week of this "treatment" Millie decides she "loves" her husband and he makes a "true Christian" out of her at the end of the book.  Really, the story line tested my intelligence and tolerance for his so called Christian outlook.  However, as a young girl reading this book it is a nice clean read about a young women determined to live up to the expectations of her new husband, her true love for his children and her willingness to prove herself worthy of her husband.  I can't say that I really enjoyed this book, I really read through it quickly, skipping parts that I found tedious.  It's free, so give it a try, you may like it.