In Want of a Wife
Jo Goodman
3/5
Jane is trying to escape her past and she thinks she can do so by moving to the middle of nowhere and marrying a man she's only met through correspondence. They both have a lot of secrets that threaten them being anything more than a marriage of convenience. Trigger warning on that, there are a few pages where past sexual assault is mentioned and discussed.
It was good, I think both of the characters dealt with the situation admirably. There was a lot of drama and a lot of situations that could've ruined everything. I think it was a very run of the mill western novel, with the benefit of well-written characters where this genre sometimes suffers. I think it was a little boring at times, but the authenticity of emotion was there.
If you like westerns but don't like how cringy they can be- especially when describing women- then this would probably be a good read for you. It has a lot of serious themes, like I said read with caution or skip it if that bothers you, but it just added to the emotional intensity of the relationship. If it weren't for the weirdness of the conflict with his brother and how forced it felt chronologically then I think I would have rated it higher.
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