I’ve read this marvelous
anthology of Christmas themed mail order bride anthology written by four of
Amazon’s bestselling authors via a KINDLE Unlimited download.
In reading mail order bride
stories, like the ones contained in this mega collection, you have to remember
that while they’re usually classified as sub-genres such as religious/
inspirational, Christian, western/frontier romances, that there’s quite a lot
of history involved underlining the story lines. With history being my A+
subject in high school I know that the reason for the existence is not only
that some women, especially in the East, wanted some adventure in their lives
or who refused to marry for family instead of for love; and that those women in
the South just want someone to marry since the Civil War had decimated the male
population. I also know that on the male side of this there was the attraction
of the Gold Rush, and male-centered jobs such as farming, ranching and logging
who left their wives or wanted to wait until they had become successful enough
to start a family, which lead to an extreme shortage of women and the creation
of the mail order bride phenomenon.
This being said, I enjoyed
reading each of the Christmas themed stories in this collection in which both
the female and male protagonist’s lives got made better. It’s kind of sweet
reading stories in which sex is not the main interest or driving force of the
characters involved or that of the story itself. The stories do involve
conflict, but only when it is essential to the story and character development.
While a purist would say there are historical errors in some of these stories,
I believe they should be disregarded and looked at as being needed in
communicating something to anyone who reads the story which would to their
visualization of what they’re reading.
For having given me and
other readers of this collection of mail order bride stories, a sweet and
wholesome reading experience of miracles involving romance at Christmas; which be read at any
time, keeping the spirit of the season alive, I’m happy to give each of the four authors and
each of the five stories they’ve contributed, 5 STARS
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