Mail Order Bride: Montana Rescue

Echo Canyon Brides, Book 1

By: Linda Bridey

Narrated by: Eric Burr

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Josie Bainbridge has watched all of her friends get married and despairs of ever finding a husband - especially because her home city of Pullman, Washington has too many women and not enough men. It becomes clear that if she's ever going to find a man of her own, she's going to have to look elsewhere. Josie begins scouring the personal advertisements, hoping to find the man of her dreams. When she comes across one written by a Montana sheriff, she thinks she just might have found him.

In 1890, Echo Canyon, Montana is on the verge of extinction. The gold rush has moved elsewhere along with many of its citizens, including most of the available women. Those who are left are diehards who refuse to leave their hometown. Faced with an uncertain future, a few loyal townspeople create an unusual plan to turn things around in Echo and keep it on the map.

It seems simple: if they can increase their population, it will keep their businesses alive and Echo will survive. They decide that mail-order brides are the best way to make their plan a success. But who will be the first gentleman to order a bride? After a shocking incident in Echo, Sheriff Evan Taft reluctantly decides to step up and give it a whirl. If he can secure a bride, maybe other men will follow him in finding their own wives.

Evan embarks on finding the perfect wife, but can it be done? Evan has been burned in the past and he doesn't want to repeat the experience. Even more than he wants to keep from losing Echo, he doesn't want to lose his heart only for it to be crushed again. Strife and evil forces accompany his search for true love. Will he succeed? The fate of Echo could very well depend on it.

©2015 Linda Bridey (P)2016 Beldene Publishing

Mixed Feelings

This book was all over the place for me. I liked the main characters and there are a lot of secondary ones who are quirky to the max. I didn’t particularly like the aunt, but most of the others were interesting. There was just soooo much going on. I also thought that many of the phrases used were too modern for the time period. However it has a good storyline with possibilities for the future books.
As to the Audible narrator, he was a train-wreck in my opinion. His accents were not compatible with the characters and I often didn’t know what he was trying to sound like. Even his voice with the main male wasn’t always consistent. It was painful. I won’t listen to him again.

I loved this story so much!

Wow, Mrs. Bridey is a new to me author, but I can't tell you how much I loved this story, and hope to read and listen to more of her stories!

A Sweet & Refreshing Mail Order Bride 👰 Tale

Josie’s innocence, talents, and unexpected moxie makes her the perfect match for Sheriff Evan, lawman of a withering Montana town. And, if any two people can, along with their most unusual assortment of ragtag friends and relatives, their town of Echo will revive. In the meantime, enjoy the entertainment of Josie and Evan’s Mail Order Marriage. Definitely recommended!

Great series starter!

I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author in exchange for an unbiased review.

Echo Canyon, Montana in 1890 is swiftly on it’s way to becoming extinct. The gold rush that birthed the town has dried up and moved westward, along with most of the town’s available women. It will take drastic measures to keep the town from emptying completely and destroying the close ties the remaining residents have with each other. In an effort to bring new, single women to the town a few of the residents decide that mail-order brides just might be the solution. Which of Echo Canyon’s remaining resident bachelors can they convince to give their plan a try?

Evan Taft, the single, handsome Sheriff of Echo Canyon, lives in town with his elderly Aunt Edna. Edna may be elderly but she rarely acts her age and is a treasured resident of Echo Canyon. She charges all of Evan’s gentlemen friends a small fee to enter their home. They must all remove their shirts upon entering the house and present themselves for her to gaze upon their fine physiques. Evan puts up with this ritual because it brings her such pleasure. Edna is very grateful to and proud of the man that her nephew has become but she wishes he would find a nice woman, settle down, and start a family. Evan has been burned by love in the past and is leery about trying again, but the townspeople and Aunt Edna convince him to post an ad for a bride. Aunt Edna writes the ad for him and it ends up in the newspaper in the city of Pullman, Washington, which seems to be overrun with single women.

Josie Bainbridge has nearly given up hope of ever finding a husband in Pullman and decides to peruse the personal ads in her hometown’s newspaper. Evan’s (Aunt Edna’s) ad catches her eye and she decides to answer it. Josie will travel to Echo Canyon to meet and get to know Evan, but not without a few bumps in the road.

So begins the saga of the Echo Canyon Brides. This is a rousing start to this series that brings new hope, new residents, and new opportunities to the tiny town. With the authors colorful characters and descriptive charm the town of Echo Canyon comes to life and makes you want to read more about life in Montana in the late 1800s. A truly enjoyable read beginning to end.

Great lite reading

Would you listen to Mail Order Bride: Montana Rescue again? Why?

Yes, and I did it is great light reading.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Mail Order Bride: Montana Rescue?

When the sheriff is kidnapped.

Which character – as performed by Eric Burr – was your favorite?

The sheriff. I love how he does his voice.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Love in the West.

Any additional comments?

This audiobook was provided by the author/narrator/publisher in exchange for an unbiased review.

Really good read

This story was a delight from beginning to end with each character portraying very different personalities and traits which endeared me to them all except for the villains (the kind you just love to hate) whom I could happily have done away with myself. This seems to be a good starting point for a series.
We have Sheriff Evan Taft who is talked into advertising for a Mail Order Bride and Josie answers his advert. They meet and fall in love (of course) and the story tells of the ups and downs in this relationships.
There were two other characters that I would like to mention as they played a lively and very amusing part of this story. The first is Evan's elderly aunt who brought him up. She is something else and every time she appeared and opened her mouth I knew there was a good chuckle around the corner.
The other is Lucky, an Irishman who befriended Josie on her train trip out to meet Evan. He reminded me of a fully grown Leprechaun, full of mischief and strange and wonderful thoughts that he wasn't shy to share.
Altogether, this story was beautifully written and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
The narration by Eric Burr was on the whole good. I just wasn't 100% happy with his rendition of an Irish accent. I kept picking up Scottish, Italian and Jewish accents to name a few and the occasional tiny bit of Irish accent. Perhaps he could get some coaching in this before he attempts this accent again.
I would recommend this audiobook and story as a really good listen/read.
I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author in exchange for an unbiased review.

good story

I liked the way the story was headed but the narrators voice just made not want to hear this story any more sorry

Entertaining and Enjoyable

Any additional comments?

Another really good, clean, fun, entertaining and very enjoyable story. Great start to another Mail Order Bride series by Linda Bridey. Her stories are just fun and easy to listen to. As always the story is filled with likable characters and has a good storyline. She always has that one character who almost steals the whole story. The same goes for this book. She knows how to pull you into a story and keep you there.

Little bit of romance, suspense, mystery and a HEA.

Narration the good and the bad. Eric Burr does a good job for the most. Overall I enjoyed his narration , although he has a few areas he needs to work on. Nice voice. Of coarse most of the male character voices were good. The non character narrative was great as well. Clearly spoken with a nice even pace. Except for his accent on one of his characters. The accent seemed to be inconsistent. Was suppose to be Irish but sounded Jamaican at times. His female character voices need a little work. To high pitched. Having dual narration would have been really nice.

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator or publisher.

Great story

Great story with just enough twists and turns, heartbreaking revelations and resiliency. Despite all of this love blooms between a the main characters. Can't wait to read/listen to the rest of these series.

Great clean romance

I enjoyed listening to this story. I liked that it was clean and sweet. There was a good array of characters with stories that intertwined well. I will definitely be listening to more books in this series. I thought the plot moved along at a good steady pace. It was easy to follow all the characters. I felt they were believable. I liked most of the characters with the exception of a couple. There was a good balance between the drama and romance aspects of the story. I liked the narrator as well. He did a good job at reading and at giving each character a voice. I would highly recommend both the author and narrator to others.