Review: Caleb's Bride
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
It's was a decent story, but I can see I lot of things in this book that people will be offended by or upset with if these sort of things bother you. First when she is in Kentucky wilderness pretty much all the women are whores and not treated great. They are underfed, beaten, and over used. One Indian whore is repeatedly hit in the stomach to try and make her lose her baby. This gets interrupted and you do not know what happens to her. Every man in the territory pretty much thinks every woman around is his for the taking. People are having sex with other people in the same room, as they do not care. I know these men are pretty much trappers out in the wilderness by themselves and I am sure these things happened in real life. So this is just a warning to people reading this. The one thing that did bother me a little is Caleb slaps Roxy across the face twice. She is taunting him and trying to get a reaction from him. She got a little more than she bargained for. However he is not violent with her any other time. Also something else that will bother other people is other than having sex they never really talked to each other. They see each other a few times and traded a few insults and that is about it.I do want to comment on some of the reviews in the book section. I also posted this review there as well. Someone stated he sleeps with everyone and then only came back to her when she was pregnant. First I want to say Roxy make it clear she did not like him and did not want him around. She even got engaged to someone else. So him sleeping with others is not a big deal, at least not until the ending and then it is a little questionable that he slept with one of the women. Second he only slept with 2 women. An Indian chief's daughter who made herself available to him while he was being held captive for 2 or 3 months, and Seth's sister, because he was trying to get information out of her about the British and what her brother was doing. Roxy also told him the baby was Seth's, because she didn't think he cared about her, so not sure what they wanted him to do about that. Someone else states Caleb is a rapist. He is not.Had some things been written different I probably would have given it a 4 star. Instead to me it is a 3.5.