Review: HATED this book!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
*Maybe Contain Spoilers*I can't even begin to describe how much this book annoyed me and how angry I am at myself that I even bothered to finish it . . . well, I actually didn't finish it but I got to 98% and couldn't even be bothered with the last few pages.Millie is a girl living in an orphanage in Boston and she is told she must leave as soon as she's 18 and is handed a few letters from men looking for mail order brides and to pick one.  She picks a letter from George, who is a 26 year old widow with 4 children who wants a wife 21 or older.  She lies to him about her age and after she's married and tells him the truth you would think she had murdered someone.  Apparently, even though Millie has gone to church her whole life, she isn't a Christian because she would tell a lie.  George, comes off as the biggest hypocrite ever!  He is allowed to sit in judgment over her for not being honest before they got married about her age, but he wasn't honest with her about why he wanted a wife, namely to simply be a drudge, being he isn't ready to be a husband again.  You can excuse that as a lie of omission, but you can't excuse the vows George took before God, and then he treats her like a mixture between a bad servant and a child as she spends the rest of the book trying to prove herself to him.At the end of the book when their feelings are starting to come out, George said he thought she would be a bad wife because she was too young and wouldn't have a good work ethic.  This is after she shows up from her wedding to a filthy house, not a clean dish in the place and was working for HOURS to even get the place clean enough even to make dinner.  Then he criticizes her that she messed up the dinner when she is working with ingredients she never saw in Boston.  He then goes to feed pigs the remains of the pork stew dinner.  That's just nasty to force then to be cannibals.  It isn't until she does all that work that they even talk about her age so he comes off as prejudice against her because of her age and with no reason at all to feel she was too young to work hard when she had worked hard so the whole thing is a moot point.The WHOLE book Millie spends all her time trying to win her husbands approval.  I wanted her to get out of there.  Living with such a hard unforgiving man is not for her.  There is nothing romantic about this book and I can't even imagine who this book is written for being it isn't for Christians, it's only for REAL Christians, who are apparently all hypocritical judgmental jerks!  Also, they are talking about scripture and then George quotes, "God helps those who help themselves," which isn't scripture at all and is found nowhere in the Bible.  It's actually a proverb from ancient Greece and has nothing to do with being a "real Christian."I don't recommend this book for anyone who doesn't think it's a woman's roll in life to do anything and everything to keep a man happy and that he is obviously smarter and should be in charge, and not a partner to his wife.The Sum Up:Millie was sweet and naive, but George was too much a jerk to deserve her.  There is no chemistry or romance and other than the scenes with the kids this book just plain insipid and preachy.1 Star.