The Thanksgiving Mail Order Bride
Series: Holiday Mail Order Brides, Book 8
By: Kit Morgan / Narrated By: Michael Rahhal
Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
A comic book romance… that I kinda ended up kinda liking…!
First let’s start with… this romance is… narrated by… a guy! I mean, what is that?!? I do know that sometimes female narrators can get growly voices when they try to portray a man being all earnest and in love, but to switch it with a male narrator for ALL the female characters that populate the general romance?
And to say I was taken aback upon starting the listen of The Thanksgiving Mail Order Bride is not saying enough. Michael Rahhal just THROWS himself into it. It starts with four old biddies (all having names that start with the letter M—which added to my dismay and confusion), squawking, and shrieking, and being all shrill in general as Martha tells her cronies that she’s ordered a bride for her son, unbeknownst to him. I tell you, listening to it was like walking into a live comic book—Rahhal squawks, shrieks, is shrill, and does such over-the-top voices for each of the women that I didn’t know whether to laugh at the book, or cry that I had 5+ hours of this to look forward to.
But you know me: I’m a totally game Accomplice, will take one for the team, blah blah blah. So I stuck with it, and by gosh, except for Aunt Eunice (who is TOTALLY shrill), I kinda got into the rhythm, got into the rather silly and simple story, and wound up kinda liking the whole shebang.
Daisy has stunning green eyes with long, dark lashes, and Morgan (another M name!), has “raven locks”, and there’s the usual light plot with the usual heavy prose that can sometimes accompany a short romance, but the characters, caricatures tho’ they might be, rather grew on me. Morgan is very much against marriage, and after he jilts Daisy, both he and she decide to fake court: he to avoid marriage to another girl, the one his Aunt Eunice wants him to marry; she to get a job and stay in town (she came to Independence, Oregon all the way from New Orleans and has nowhere else to go and needs a way to make a living). So there are misunderstandings, his aunt’s machinations, rumors going around town, feelings that get hurt, and a secret Daisy’s been hiding that she just cannot let Morgan know anything about.
And I liked it. I was thinking I was taking one for the team, but this silly comic book of a romance with its comic book narration had a simple charm that I kinda only recommend if you’re into romances in general. Still and all, I notice the next in the series is Christmas and who knows? Maybe I’ll take one for the team again come December!
Just don’t expect much in the way of Thanksgiving. There’s nothing festive in this book; it just happens to fall in November when the only pies you can bake are apple or pumpkin and the only challenge Morgan can cast Daisy is to cook him Thanksgiving dinner (do expect women to be about cooking and sewing and such all). A spoiler? It’s just cuz they get married on Thanksgiving Day, when there’s a turkey baking in the kitchen.
Did I blow it for you?
… heavy sigh…
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