Bride of the High Country

First half was a four-star historical romance, second half was a disjointed two-star mess as the author tried awkwardly to integrate the third “runaway bride” narrative with the occurrences of the two previous novels. As a result, the romance was abruptly shortchanged. Which was a shame, because I liked Lucinda and Tait and would have liked greater depth to their love story.

Although there were four runaway brides introduced in the first book of the series, it looks like noble half-black Prudence and noble half-Native American Thomas may not get their own novel, which may be just as well. Those two are portrayed so stiltingly and patronizingly I doubt I could endure 300 pages of them.