Married in Montana is an attempt to update the "mail order bride" concept for modern days. both Scott and Savannah wanted to be wed, but neither really wanted to date (either tired of meeting Mr. Wrong, or completely clueless). They both engaged the use of a matchmaker who's a psychologist with her own methods and interviewed each candidate for many many hours before matching up. There is one catch: the two will meet for the first time, at the altar, ready to be married right there and then.
If you can get past the surprisingly illogical situation (basically the modern equivalent of a mail order bride where after a few correspondences, and a matchmaker checking references, the bride shows up in town and ready to be married by a local judge/priest) that seems to go against what romance novels should stand for, i.e. fall in love, THEN have the happily ever after, the story gets actually quite interesting, as the couple, now wed, are forced to confront their problems right then and there instead of using them as the reasons to justify "I'll try the next candidate".
And in a way, this sort of romance is so refreshing, as it's basically compressing dating and married life down to a few weeks, instead of a few YEARS!
Any way, this story is about Scott and Savannah, who are NOTHING alike. He's a Montana Bison Farmer and Country Boy. She's a School Teacher and a City Girl. Yet they both find each other very charming, except for some major foot-in-mouth moments that makes you groan out loud "oh, no, he didn't just do that......" Case in point: re-gifting a heavy-duty mixer, originally intended to his mom (who died several months ago) STILL in Christmas wrapping paper, to his new wife, the very next day after she talked about she does NOT want to be a stay-at-home wife, even though she will have dinner ready and prefer to have a housekeeper around part-time. Ouch! Even his ranch foreman was tempted to give him a dope slap. Yet working through this sort of problems was what a marriage was supposed to be about, right? In the end, I enjoyed it more than I hate it, once I got past that initial matchmaker hump.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: modern take of mail order bride, can a city girl marry a country boy sight unseen?
Tropes: mail order bride, different worlds, opposites attract
Overall Rating: 4/5
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