Plum Pudding Bride

by Anne Garboczi Evans

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Plum Pudding Bride by Anne Garboczi Evans is an awesome short story that is perfect to read during the winter time or even during the fall wanting it to be winter. It’s a quick little read that will leave you wanting more. Or at least it did for me. Ms. Evans is a fantastic writer that will bring you into her books just by the first page which is an awesome ability to do. Especially for a novella like this one. I have to say that it has been a year since I first accepted this request which might have lead me into forgetting that it was going to be a novella set during the Christmas time which is evident in the title of the book.

What I liked about this book. There is quite a bit that I like about this book, besides it being a novella which are sometimes the best reads anyone might find, is that it captivates you right away with wondering about this beau of Patience’s that she agreed to marry from a newspaper ad for a mail-order bride. Another thing that captivated me about this book is that the characters are all three dimensional and makes you wonder with how long they have been growing in the author’s mind. Especially the two main characters in the story. I also liked how one doesn’t know who the antagonist of the story is until it gets toward that point of the story that the antagonist reveals themselves which was really great in mind.

The main character is Peter Foote who is the general store owner and has been in love with Patience Callahan for seven years but won’t return his affections. He and another character decide to try and get Patience jealous and call off her wedding with her beau from Montana that wanted a mail-order bride. Of course, it kind of works in their favor and kind of doesn’t since it just makes her want to be with her beau even more until she learns the truth and with Peter kind of changing the way he is makes her want him even more.

The other main character is Patience Callahan who is a twenty-five-year-old woman who would rather be spent reading than really looking for a husband or learning how to cook. It also doesn’t help that she works at Peter Foote’s general store and thinks that Peter isn’t that interesting or heroic like the characters in her books. Instead she would rather answer a newspaper ad for a mail-order bride for a man that she doesn’t know instead of marrying someone in her small town that she has known for the past seven years. Except when her beau does show up the day before Christmas Eve and isn’t who she pictured or excepted she is at a loss for words but doesn’t want to let any of the small-town folk know that she knows that she made a mistake with answering that ad.

I’m not normally one for Historical books as I have tried to read some before starting this blog and I didn’t think that they were for me. It mostly depends on the plot, the author, and the way that the book is. If I have to look up something while I’m reading the book because I didn’t get with what the author meant more than once than the book isn’t for me. Especially if the way some characters talk is really hard to understand for something they would say way back when the book is supposed to be around then I can’t finish it as it takes me out of the book and makes it harder for me to want to come back to the book to read it some more. Thankfully this book wasn’t like that which is why I am grateful to have read this book.

What I disliked about this book. There isn’t much I have to say that I disliked about this book as it was a well thought out and planned book that the author did. I didn’t find anything wrong with the story or with the characters as I thought it was all really well put together and that it all made sense. Especially in the time period that the book is set in which is in the 1890s.

What I was iffy about this book. I didn’t find anything iffy about this book at all.

Plum Pudding Bride by Anne Garboczi Evans is a book that I would gladly read over and over since it’s that good. I am also giving it five stars because it is that amazing. I can honestly say that I would recommend this book to my adult readers of this blog since it’s a book that everyone will enjoy.

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