Melody is in heavy debt after her father finally succumbed to his illness (and broken heart, hoping his wife would return "someday"). She will probably be forced to sell the ranch as the mortgage is months overdue, and utilities have been turned off for non-payment. Melody, however, has standards, and Brock's offer of marriage (on her father's burial day!) was NOT appreciated! She went to work, and found Stryder, the guy who broke her heart ten years ago... Is back in town... // Stryder is back in Two Rides, Montana after going to college and making his billion. Somehow along the way, he had lost touch with the only woman he had ever loved... Melody. Now he's back, and she's NOT pleased to see him... What happened in the intervening years, who the heck is Brock making a move on his woman... and how can he get Melody back?
Somehow, Stryder never once got time to visit, even over the weekend, or even have the time to call home? I can understand letters "got lost", but... really? Still, the push-pull is not bad.
Category: Contemporary
Overall Rating: 4/5
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GRR Reviews With This Click, I Thee Wed (ClickandWed.com) by Bonnie R. Paulson
"With This Click, I Thee Wed" is a modern mail order bride story where a doormat divorcee went West to marry someone she had not met face to face yet. It was somewhat interesting though the nemesis was way too sociopathic (i.e. "just plain evil") and the FMC was too much of a doormat though she eventually grew out of it.
She's a lonely divorcee whose own family doesn't want her and her ex treats her like a doormat, not only turning the entire town against her (even though he's the one cheated), her ex is suing her for emotional abuse. He's a rancher who stands to lose his parent's house and ranch, and had his heart broken when he realized his wife married his prestige, not him. Yet they somehow got married when she got drunk and clicked on "I do"... Now she's flying across the country to meet her husband... Can this work, even when it was so... crazy?
The romance was there, but there doesn't seem to be too much chemistry initially. it was through a lot of external prompting that they got involved, but it doesn't quite feel natural, unlike Mary Farmer's "At the Altar" series with a somewhat similar high concept. The tone was really really somber, so to speak. If you like this one, you should like the rest of the series.
Review for Books 2 and 3 in this series will be published later!
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Doormat divorcee accidentally agreed to be a modern mail-order bride and marry a stranger across the country
Tropes: mail order bride, different worlds, evil ex, weird will
Overall Rating: 3/5
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