The Bride Blunder (Prairie Promises #3) - Kelly Eileen Hake

This is the third book in the series Prairie Promises.  The first two books are The Bride Bargain and The Bride Backfire.

Gavin has come from Baltimore to set up his mill.  Now that he's settled, he sends a "formal" letter to his sweetheart, hoping that she'll come to Buttonwood and agree to be his bride.  BUT, there's two young ladies with the formal name of Marguerite, and the one that hops off the stage is NOT the one he's expecting.  When he finds out the woman he sent for, Daisy, is engaged, he decides to settle on Marge.  But she's having none of that.  She refuses to be someone's second choice.

Also in this book is the story of Midge.  She's been a constant companion to the women in the first two books, and it's about time she found some romance of her own.  Amos is a face from her past, but she has no desire to let him get close enough to see the real Midge.  But when he persists, she decides that being herself is just the thing to get rid of Amos.

I enjoyed both the stories, but I lean toward Midge's more.  She's the one female lead that I didn't dislike at multiple points in the story.  I've had issues with the heroines in all three of these novels, and Midge was a breath of fresh air.  Marge, just like the heroines before her, refuses to see any worth in herself or take Gavin for what he does instead of guessing at his motives every single time he does something.

There's a few things that'll keep this collection at 4 stars.  First, I didn't like the way I'd sometimes read backward.  By that I mean that a scene would end, and the next one would begin with the same scene but told from another perspective.  This repeated parts of conversations and interrupted the flow.  Another thing that bothered me is the extended breaks in the middle of a conversation.  More than once, I had to go back to remember what the previous person had said.  Last, the typos.  Sometimes it would be the wrong word, a misplaced quotation mark or italics for dialogue instead of inner thought.  And it wasn't just once or twice.  Overall, I really liked the stories, but the execution of them makes me penalize the collection a star.  It still gets a Good Book! review.