Review: Mail Order Doctor

Mail Order Doctor by Cynthia Woolf
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

1.5

This book fell flat for me. I felt everything was rushed. There wasn't enough detail or back story for me. They are just thrown at you, and just continue to speed along.

Spoilers beyond this point.

Julia shows up in Tombstone under the assumption that her husband-by-proxy, that she has been corresponding with for a while, is going to be there waiting for her with open arms and a loving heart. What she gets is a man that has been unwittingly married off by his grandfather, whom has run off so he doesn't have to deal with the mess he's made.

Matthew-the husband-is completely against this marriage. He wants nothing to do with her, but he's not a complete dick and gives her a place to stay while things get sorted out. During this time Julia takes absolutely every chance there is to convince him that he does, in fact, want to be married to her. (He just doesn't know it yet.) This was a little irritating to me. I mean, how would you feel if you found out the guy that you had fallen in love with wasn't actually the man you'd been talking to?

Pissed, a little creeped out and really, really hurt. But she instantly switches on her we-will-stay-married mode, and forget anything that he has to say about it.

And the marriage proposals! What?! Ben I can understand, they spent time on the trip to Tombstone. But Blaine?? No. He loses his wife, Norma, in childbirth, which he is so upset about that he abandons his child, Hope. Then a month or so later comes back, kidnaps his kid and Julia, then tries to get her to marry him after he's shot her.

She was to blame for Norma not being there to take care of Hope, so she would just have to take Norma's place. He wouldn't mind if she took Norma's place in all things.

This book wasn't for me.

I did receive this book from NetGalley for an honest review.

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