Review: So much possibility, so little development
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2013
Mail Order Millie is one of those stories with an immense possibility, and the skeleton of those possibilities is all laid out, but unfortunately, what the reader gets sounds more like a 10th grade book report of the story than the story itself.It's too preachy, without enough of the reasoning behind the preaching, so it comes across as a bad tale of wifely subservience rather than Christian faith.With all of that, you can't help but LIKE the characters, but it's like they were all killed in a fatal collision between the author and reader instead.  When you finish the very short book, you don't have a burning desire to pick up another one, but almost feel an urge to sing a dirge and prepare for a funeral for the whole family instead.It's too bad the story died so young...it had so  much to live for!