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Auteur van Ruby - Book 1 Come By Chance Mail Order Brides: Sweet Montana Western Bride Romance (Come-By-Chance Mail Order Brides)
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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-person narrative, but most of the tale belongs to Ben. And then Ruby gets to town...and falls arse over tea kettle for Matt, who also thinks she's the world's best thing since the great epic love story of his Ma and Pa!
Maybe this is one of those romances where the wrong brother ends up engaged to the heroine and the hero has to sweep in and Fix Everything?
Nope. Not one of those stories. Matt and Ruby end up married. The End. And I mean that literally: The End, that's all she wrote, there's no more to the book. They get married. The End.
Ms James has a knack, I think, for capturing the voice of the characters and making you care about what matters to them. But judging by Ruby, she has no idea how to tell a story about those characters and clearly lacks sufficient experience with the romance, or even the western, genre to understand and play with the tropes and mechanisms of those types of stories.
If you read Ruby as a tongue-in-cheek spoof of a Western romance, it has a certain charm, but I don't believe the author intended it as such. Instead, it's disappointing and peculiar and rather pitiful.