Thursday, July 23, 2015

Review - A Bride At Last


 

A Bride At Last
by Melissa Jagears
Publisher: Bethany House
Pub. Date: July 7, 2015
ISBN: 978-0764211706
Pages: 368
Buy  Link: http://bit.ly/1M44A97
Blog Tour: http://litfusegroup.com/author/mjagears

Review:

Yes, there have been dozen of mail-order-bride romance novels written over the last few years and for some reason these types of books appeal to me, so here I am writing the review for A Bride At Last.

The book centers on Silas Jonesey, a former orphan who is trying his best to start a life that he can call his own. Now a farmer, he was looking forward to starting a family with his mail-order-bride, but she leaves him after only seven months. For the next ten years, he has shut his heart off and has no plans of ever falling in love again. Out-of-nowhere, he receives a message from his ex about him possibly being the father of her son.

After her mail-order-bride experience went wrong, Kate Dawson has become a schoolteacher. After the mother of one of her student's (Anthony) dies, Kate decides to take the boy in that is until two men (Silas Jonesey and Richard Fitzgerald) arrive in town, both claiming to be the boy's birth father.

While Silas awaits to prove his paternity in court, Silas sees how much Kate loves Anthony, so he asks her to help him with the boy. Of course this is a romance novel, so sparks quickly erupts between Silas and Kate.

I was expecting a simple mail-order-bride where the a women goes out west and and falls in love with a troubled man, but that isn't exactly what I got here. The story here is set in my home state of Missouri, where the main characters, Silas and Kate, have already both tried to find love through mail-order-bride way and both failed. I wasn't for sure if I was going to like the book, but by the fifth chapter I was hooked into the plot and quickly finished reading it. Overall, A Bride At Last is a well-written romantic tale with a few surprises here and there.



*Disclaimer - I received a complimentary copy  in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. 


About the Author:


Melissa Jagears, an ESL teacher by trade and the author of A Bride for Keeps and A Bride in Store, is a stay-at-home mother on a tiny Kansas farm with a fixer-upper house. She's a member of ACFW and CROWN fiction marketing, and her passion is to help Christian believers mature in their faith and judge rightly.


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