Review: Suspension of disbelief
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2014
I plan to read other books by this author. She told this story well, so that it was only after I finished the book that I started realizing how improbable the whole thing was.I'll avoid most of the spoilers...except to say that I doubt any US Army installation ever required a single woman to marry if she were accidentally stranded there.Or why the CO wouldn't step in to maintain proprieties, such as demanding the young woman stay with him and his wife rather than expecting her to marry a stranger. I'm also generally suspicious about the 'in name only, and only temporarily' marriages that feature in too many historical romances. But the main characters were likeable and I wanted them to have a happy ending. The reasons why they didn't just TALK to each other were believable enough, while I was reading, but seem rather improbable in retrospect.And I'm still wondering why a woman would take a stage on the Santa Fe Trail to go to Austin. Or how she'd end up in Oklahoma. Or why, even if a stage driver took a wrong turn, they didn't discover it when they couldn't find the first scheduled stop...or the second... and how no one at the stops they DID make didn't express amazement to see a stage when none was expected.