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A review by kuglar
The Long Road Home by Mary Alice Monroe
2.0
Fairly forgettable plot. You know that they will end up happily living on the sheep farm together. However, this is a Harlequin, so props to the author for having any plot at all.
The salt-o'-the-earth neighbors apparently lived in the 1950's while Nora and CW lived in the 1990's. Probably left behind because they're not "quality."
In 1995, $300,000 and 400 acres of land with [most of] a house and a viable business on it wasn't exactly the poorhouse. Not too shabby in 2018, either.
Some 1995 era sexist tidbits:
-Mike is a total asshole but she loves him and doesn't believe in divorce
-brother-in-law gets the family bank, sister is more qualified to run the bank but doesn't want to be more powerful than her husband so gets the ancestral home
-heroine is standing in the path of a falling tree and has to be rescued by the hero
-[ostensibly adult] hero has a jealous temper tantrum over heroine dancing at a dance with a (gasp) man
Surprises:
-a mouse was in her bed and *ran across her face* and she didn't acquire a dozen cats the next day (there was also no lovable scamp of a dog in the story)
-there was no bit at the end where his fortune pays to complete the 5 story, 6 bedroom "big house" (ew, shades of plantation life)
-there was no bit at the end where his fortune pays for new sheep
-there was no bit at the end where she's pregnant so, you know, we all know she's a "real woman" after all
-she was still driving the Volvo at the end; buy a truck, madam, you need four wheel drive for the damn hill that you persist in thinking is a metaphor for your life
-the ram/ewe mating scene - what was that all about
The salt-o'-the-earth neighbors apparently lived in the 1950's while Nora and CW lived in the 1990's. Probably left behind because they're not "quality."
In 1995, $300,000 and 400 acres of land with [most of] a house and a viable business on it wasn't exactly the poorhouse. Not too shabby in 2018, either.
Some 1995 era sexist tidbits:
-Mike is a total asshole but she loves him and doesn't believe in divorce
-brother-in-law gets the family bank, sister is more qualified to run the bank but doesn't want to be more powerful than her husband so gets the ancestral home
-heroine is standing in the path of a falling tree and has to be rescued by the hero
-[ostensibly adult] hero has a jealous temper tantrum over heroine dancing at a dance with a (gasp) man
Surprises:
-a mouse was in her bed and *ran across her face* and she didn't acquire a dozen cats the next day (there was also no lovable scamp of a dog in the story)
-there was no bit at the end where his fortune pays to complete the 5 story, 6 bedroom "big house" (ew, shades of plantation life)
-there was no bit at the end where his fortune pays for new sheep
-there was no bit at the end where she's pregnant so, you know, we all know she's a "real woman" after all
-she was still driving the Volvo at the end; buy a truck, madam, you need four wheel drive for the damn hill that you persist in thinking is a metaphor for your life
-the ram/ewe mating scene - what was that all about