Wilderness Bride

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Summary: Wow
Review: I absolutly adored this book!!! It is a book dwelling on the powers of love and an indavidual's belifs. In the book, Coery is being forced to marry a man she does not know because her father is going away to fight a war. Her mother died when Corey was young. Along the way in this book, Corey falls in love with her betrothed Ethan. I give this book five stars for sheer ingenuity and class. I'm going to hunt down this book and add it to my personal library. enjoy this book as I have. ^_^

Rating:
Summary: good book!
Review: i loved this book! it is a story about arranged marriage, mormanism, and following your heart. in it the girl is told that she will marry a man she doesn't even know. his family is traveling to the mecca, or Salt Lake City. on the way she learns that she loves ethan.

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Summary: Good writing, but bad research
Review: While I appreciated the story, it was well done and very readable. I am also seventh generation Mormon and she did not do enough research to get her facts straight. The whole premise that the Mormons drank tea by the gallons and yet didn't believe in Dr's and medicine is erroneous. Brigham Young sent and the church paid for women to go back East to become Dr's so that they could then come back and educate others. Medicine and education was important to them then and to us now. And we don't drink tea. The temple was not used as a wagon maker's shop. Nauvoo wasn't so lucky as to be able to "plan" their exodus. They left in the middle of winter across a frozen river, chased by mobs, their feet bloodied by the stubble of the fields. Elders aren't just the "old" men, neither then nor now, and a "Deacon" isn't exactly high up in the hierarchy. Those were only a few of the falsehoods I found. A bit of time spent in research would have made this a better book but then it would also have changed the story completely. A well told story based on false information isn't really much of a story is it?

Rating:
Summary: Good writing, but bad research
Review: While I appreciated the story, it was well done and very readable. I am also seventh generation Mormon and she did not do enough research to get her facts straight. The whole premise that the Mormons drank tea by the gallons and yet didn't believe in Dr's and medicine is erroneous. Brigham Young sent and the church paid for women to go back East to become Dr's so that they could then come back and educate others. Medicine and education was important to them then and to us now. And we don't drink tea. The temple was not used as a wagon maker's shop. Nauvoo wasn't so lucky as to be able to "plan" their exodus. They left in the middle of winter across a frozen river, chased by mobs, their feet bloodied by the stubble of the fields. Elders aren't just the "old" men, neither then nor now, and a "Deacon" isn't exactly high up in the hierarchy. Those were only a few of the falsehoods I found. A bit of time spent in research would have made this a better book but then it would also have changed the story completely. A well told story based on false information isn't really much of a story is it?