Twice Promised
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Seeing how successful her older sister's "mail order marriage" has been and longing to strike out on her own, Greta Olsen answers an ad for a mail order bride in Central City, Colorado. But when she meets Jess Gifford, owner of a thriving mercantile, she begins to harbor doubts. He didn't place the ad to begin with and his business in a busy mining town leaves him little time or energy for love. To compound her troubles, she was not the only bride to answer the ad! Will either bride strike the match she hopes for? Filled with amusing and awkward situations that will keep the reader interested and guessing, Twice Promised is another sweet romance from Maggie Brendan.
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3 primary booksThe Blue Willow Brides is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Maggie Brendan.
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Since this book is so highly rated, I feel it is kind of like my duty to bring everyone back to reality.
I agree with what the other “2 star rater” said, the plot is really captivating and interesting and I really looked forward to this book but it's so....awkward. The ‘dramatic' scenes are random and lose their effect quickly. I rolled my eyes more than once throughout many of them.
The romance is very direct and awkward and badly written, and the religious scenes come off as silly and shallow. The emotion of those kinds of scenes is not properly conveyed it's just thrown in the book because it's the right thing to say or do but the author doesn't build anything up. That's the problem. Nothing is built up.
The characters are all very interesting and their backstory is great. I with the author spent more time developing the characters instead of putting in stupid, badly written drama.
Do not recommend.
