Finished Courting Morrow Little today. Such a strange name! Anyway, I gave it four stars. Alright enough, but not so good. The book is full of contradictions. Morrow Little was said to be oblivious to her beauty, but the way she acted, I'm not so sure she wasn't aware. One moment she was fearing Major McKie, an unpleasant military man; not so long later, I found her dreaming of the man. Oh, and she fell in love with the Indian man, Red Shirt, whom she'd hated for a good 8 years or so very quickly, too. Then she knew in her heart that she loved him; yet she told her father she wanted to marry another man, Robbie Clay, a settler. Poor Robbie. He asked her to marry him, not forced her to do that. But she acted as though he held a knife against her Pa's throat and threatened her into marriage. Shortly later, because of Morrow, Robbie was forced to enlist and sent straight to the front attack, hence he died immediately since the guy was a farmer, not a soldier. Well, at least that got Morrow to mourn for him for a few brief moments (which lasted for about one or two sentences.) I swear she was relieved beyond measure. A few days after her marriage with Red Shirt, also after her Pa's funeral, Morrow was thinking non-stop about bedroom activities with Red Shirt. I guess it's ok if it's just that; but the problem is it was constantly emphasizing on her innocence over such matters, and yet I found her just short of begging Red Shirt to take her right there and then. What part of it is innocent??? Hmm, the more I think about it, the less favorable it seemed to me. Perhaps I'll change it to three stars. (Edit. I did change the rating to three stars. Sorry, four stars is too good for you.)
It's such a pity to give a book low rating when you obviously was intrigued by the plot, loved the setting and liked some of the characters such as Morrow's Pa, Red Shirt, Joe and Good Robe...But the thing is I hated the heroine, Morrow Little. Laura Frantz wanted to create an epitome of goodness, innocence, strength and beauty out of Morrow, but in my opinion, it failed miserably. She tried to pack too much contradicting qualities in one person and the failed attempt backfired. Otherwise, it would have been an excellent read.
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