Mail-Order Bride Book

I enjoy Debbie Macomber's books. I read all of the Cedar Cove series as well as her latest, The Girls' Guide to Moving On, which I rated highly. However, Mail Order Bride is awful. I kept thinking it was a very early effort, from when she was a less-skillful author. Maybe she dug out the manuscript, dusted it off, and published it anew without realizing how bad it sounds. Time have changed.

The main character is a histrionic woman with not much brainpower, and the male lead is creepy. But this is the worst: I kept imagining a woman being kidnapped as a "bride" for a crazy man, and having to submit to his rules of captivity. Not the least bit romantic! And those elderly aunts who cooked up the scheme were deranged as well. I am sorry but this book was awful.