Ruby (Come-By-Chance Mail Order Brides #1)

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It s 1884, and love is in the air in the town of Come By Chance In this much loved series strong women risk everything to rise above their desperate circumstances, find true love, and wed real men who ll treat them right.Meet Ruby She s lost her Ma, and struck out into the world on her own The good news is she s traveled to Pittsburgh and found a good job as a schoolmistress The bad news is, the school s owner, the portly, whiskey breathed Mister Murphy, has developed wandering hands, and Mrs Murphy s preparing to leave to visit her sister for a month in New York.Ruby sees an advertisement in the Matrimonial News and takes a desperate chance, writing away to the handsome Six feet four James Drinkwater.Will James be the answer to Ruby s plight Is the handsome Montana man all that he seems Or will someone else come to Ruby s rescue, so together they can find true love The Come By Chance series consists of Book 1 RubyBook 2 EmilyBook 3 VioletBook 4 KateBook 5 RoseBook 6 Emmy Lou Read Ruby (Come-By-Chance Mail Order Brides #1) – kino-fada.fr I was disappointed in this book This period in history and the whole concept of mail order brides is fascinating to me so I was really interested in reading Ruby, but I found the story to be extremely unrealistic and somewhat preposterous I can see how a mail order bride could put herself in jeopardy by going west to marry a man she knows nothing about except what he himself tells her so that part of the story seemed poss...ConfusingI could not tell who the hero was until the very end If the title of the book was not Ruby, I would not have been able to tell the heroine either The book really seemed to build up a relationship between Ben and Letty to me Ho...Confession time, I have a soft spot for mail order bride stories My own Internet dating experiences might have been terrible, but these fictional characters always seem to be able to make it through and find true love Ruby goes through quite a bit to find a good man in this storyline First, she is constantly terrorized by her employer s husband and then she is cat fished by a man who lures mail order brides with the intent of forcing them into prostitution Not exactly the light bedtime r Confession time, I have a soft spot for mail order bride stories My own Internet dating experiences might have been terrible, but these fictional c...Meet Ruby She s lost her Ma, and struck out into the world on her own The good news is she s traveled to Pittsburgh and found a good job as a schoolmistress The bad news is, the school s owner, the portly, whiskey breathed Mister Murphy, has developed wandering hands, and Mrs Murphy s preparing to leave to visit her sister for a month in New York.Ruby sees an advertisement in the Matrimonial News and takes a desperate chance, writing away to the handsome Six feet four James Drinkwater, who s Meet Ruby She s lost her Ma, and struck out into the world on her own The good news is she s traveled to Pittsburgh and found a good job as a schoolmistress The bad news is, the school s owner, the por...As I am not one for reading books that fall into the Romance genre, and I also paid the grand total of 0.00 on the book, I don t feel right being too critical It was an easy read and nice enough, but it left a lot to be desired I was anticipating one thing and was landed with another Mistaken identities and finding love in a strange place and stuffalthough, I suppose I still got that But not in the manner I had assumed, nor with the people I assumed I guess it was a bit misleading, a b As I am not one for reading books that fall into the Romance genre, and I also paid the grand total of 0.00 on the book, I don t feel right being too critical It was an easy read and nice enough, but it left a lot to be desired I was anticipating one thing and was landed with anot...The author apparently has a deep and abiding grudge against commas This story had several problems Firstly was the punctuation issue it is in desperate need of a copy editor because the punctuation was terribly flawed throughout The most obvious problem, as it occurs many, many, many times, is that when speaking to someone and using their name, the author fails to use a comma.Here are a few examples from the story itself, all from the same first page of chapter 25 the wrong version first, m The author apparently has a deep and abiding grudge against commas This story had several problems Firstly was the punctuation issue it is in desperate need of a copy editor because the punctuation was terribly flawed throughout The most obvious problem, as it occurs many, many, many times, is that when speaking to someone and using their name, the author fails to use a comma.Here are a few examples from the story itself, all from the same first page of chapter 25 the wrong version first, my corrected version following.1 Outta bed you lazy buzzards Outta bed, you lazy buzzards 2 Yessir Ben Yessir, Ben 3 You see that Toby You see that, Toby 4 Must be some sorta special day for him Ben Must be some sorta special day for him, Ben 5 Real funny you two boys are, called Matt Real funny, you two boys are, called Matt....A little rushed, but a charmer overall The bad guy is a BAD GUY read uses marriage adverts to trick women into coming to him with him planning to put them to work as prostitutes, and then he comes on their back to mark them , but it s clear he s being set up to fail, and his own mail order wife has his number but good, so there s no one trying to make you like him There are a few allusions to God, but it s clearly used as a part of time This is not a Christian romance, which I want to str A little rushed, but a charmer overall The bad guy is a BAD GUY read uses marriage adverts to trick women into coming to him with him planning to put them to work as prostitutes, and then he comes on their back to mark them , but it s clear he s being set up to fail, and his own mail order wife has his number but good, so there s no one trying to make you l...My edition KindlePages 182Series Come By Chance Mail Order BridesRating 2 starsReview I am in dire need of a historical Romance In one of my challenges it is July s gemstone, which is ruby, so I have to read a book with the word ruby in the title I went onand typed in ruby in the books category This gem popped up and it was free too It sounded good and I decided to go ahead and read it.A schoolmistress in Pittsburgh needs to find a way to get away from her boss Mr Murphy One da My edition KindlePages 182Series Come By Chance Mail Order BridesRating 2 starsReview I am in dire need of a historical Romance In one of my challenges it is July s gemstone, which is ruby, so I have to read a book with the word ruby in the title I went onand typed in ruby in the books category This gem popped up and it was free too It sounded good and I decided to go ahead and read it.A schoolmistress in Pittsburgh needs to find a way to get away from her boss Mr Murphy One day running an errand for Mrs Murphy, Ruby talks to the woman at the Post Office who finds a way to get Ruby out, a mail order bride They send a letter off to the gentleman along with a photograph of Ruby Ruby gets a reply from the man named James He seemed nice and respectable But James is not what he seems.Ben, Matt, and Toby live together on their own ranch Their mother and father left 800 for them to get a mail order bride since there wasn t many p...Ihave no idea what I just read I mean, I ve shelved it as historical romance, and I suppose it isif it s the sort of historical romance I would ve written when I was 9 years old And by that, I don t mean to disparage either my 9 year old writer self or Ms Juliet James I wrote a pretty awesome yarn at 9 years old But I also had only the merest grasp of plot and genre and point of view, all of which Ruby fumbles and stumbles with, too.Up until the midpoint of the novel, I was certain t Ihave no idea what I just read I mean, I ve shelved it as historical romance, and I suppose it isif it s the sort of historical romance I would ve written when I was 9 years old And by that, I don t mean to disparage either my 9 year old writer self or Ms Juliet James I wrote a pretty awesome yarn at 9 years old But I also had only the merest grasp of plot and genre and point of view, all of which Ruby fumbles and stumbles with, too.Up until the midpoint of the novel, I was certain the hero and heroine were Ben and Ruby After all, up til that point, no other characters have any share in the storytelling Sure, Ben s brother Matt has a thought or two threaded willy nilly into Ben s third...I ve probably read hundreds of mail order bride stories, both true and fiction, and this has to rank as one of the worst And it had nothing to do with the one scene in the bedroom There was little to no character development with any of the characters The writing was all over the place and I found myself skimming to the dialogue just to get to something good There was no romance unless you call how Ruby and Matt saw each other the first time.As for the controversial rape scene that many have I ve probably read hundreds of mail order bride stories, both true and fiction, and this has to rank as one of the worst And it had nothing to do with the one scene in the bedroom There was little to no character development with any of the characters The writing was all over the place and I found myself skimming to the dialogue just to get to something good There was no romance unless you call how Ruby and Matt saw each other the first time.As for the controversial rape scene that many have brought up She was sexually assaulted and although, unexpected, it wasn t surprising for that time Jim was just being an a but it was well within his right to do it There was nothing graphic about it and the bedroom scene with Ruby and the new husband was glossed over with no details.The attr...

Ruby (Come-By-Chance Mail Order Brides #1)
  • English
  • 04 April 2017
  • ebook
  • 182 pages
  • 150287721X
  • Juliet James
  • Ruby (Come-By-Chance Mail Order Brides #1)