Review: a - implausible and b - too short
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2013
Unfortunately it feels contrived and it is FAR FAR too short.  The premise (as you know from the description) is this lady feels God has called her to answer a particular "mail order bride" ad.  You don't even know til the end that they actually corresponded before she left!  Just before she gets there (this takes literally about 5 pages for the whole wagon train journey) she gets grabbed from under a wagon by a Sioux warrior.  She tries to run away & is successful (boy is THAT not realistic) but eventually is found by the brave and next thing you know he's escorting her to her husband to be.  I'm sorry folks -- if some woman had been kidnapped by indians?  Back in the 1800's?  Your reputation was TRASHED.  Everyone assumed you had been "violated".  That would be, realistically, something in reality she'd have had to deal with.  Helen Keating is not a newbie author.  Of course we want God's word -- but let's have something real- 's a content problem -- not just a too-short book.