GRR Reviews ADELINE - The Strong-willed Bride for Her Lonely Farmer by Faye Sonja

Adeline tried to set up a smart bride giving her groom an unexpected solution, but it seems the author forgot historical research.

In the year 1870, Adeline had to leave New York when her father died in debt and the debtor Lex Baxter, intended to take one of the sisters as payment. Adeline managed to stall the evil man for six months of mourning and answered a mail order bride ad... All the way out in Goldrush, California... // James Blair suffered some poor heartbreak, and is about to be forced off his land if he cannot get a good crop going. Finding a wife was supposed to help him free up more time in the fields, not about love... but Adeline may have some solutions to James' problem, however unconventional they are if James will just stop being stubborn... Or was it Adeline being unreasonable by insisting on hiring the Chinamen to help work the fields?

The story doesn't make sense on multiple levels. The bad guy was willing to wait "six months", really? Also, 90-99% of Chinamen that came over are male, no wives or children at all. Any research would have shown that. Yet the plot was local bad men, hoping to drive the Chinamen away, kidnapped their women and children. That made absolutely no sense at all in itself either.

Category: Historical Western

Primary Plot: Mail-order bride tries to help her husband by proposing some unconventional solutions to save his farm and her family

Overall Rating: 1/5

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