{"id":2220,"date":"2013-10-30T20:53:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:53:03","slug":"the-snow-bride-by-debbie-macomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-snow-bride-by-debbie-macomber\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snow Bride by Debbie Macomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"685960\" src=\"https:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1348673562l\/685960.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Snow-Bride-ebook\/dp\/B00FTQHR7E\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1383180482&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+snow+bride+debbie+macomber\">The Snow Bride by Debbie Macomber<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever dated somebody you met on the internet? If so, what happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jenna is a nice practical gal. She&#8217;s works hard for her boss as a secretary &#8211; she&#8217;s also in love with her boss. However, her boss doesn&#8217;t share the same feelings for her. He only thinks of Jenna as his faithful, reliable, conscientious secretary. Jenna takes matters into her hands &#8211; she meets Dalton Gray on the internet in a poetry chat room. She ends up quitting her job, traveling to Alaska to meet Dalton, but, when he doesn&#8217;t show up at their appointed time, she panics, and ends up traveling elsewhere with a man named Reid.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like this book as much as Macomber&#8217;s other books. It may be because it was written ten years ago, and perhaps Macomber&#8217;s stories changed drastically over the last decade. I kinda felt that it was a watered down version of her recent release, <a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/starry-night-by-debbie-macomber.html\">Starry Night. I loved Starry Night!<\/a> The Snow Bride had the following similarities to Starry Night:<\/p>\n<p>The hero&#8217;s name in Starry Night was Finn Dalton. The guy whom Jenna meets from the internet in The Snow Bride is Dalton Gray.<\/p>\n<p>The setting of Alaska was used.<\/p>\n<p>Bush pilot was used.<\/p>\n<p>The hero in the Snow Bride, Reid, has trouble trusting women since he was abandoned by his mom when he was little. Finn in Starry Night has a similar hang-up.<\/p>\n<p>Reid and Jenna were stranded in his cabin because of a snowstorm, just like Finn and Carrie were stranded in Starry Night.<\/p>\n<p>Jenna and Reid pass the time away by playing cribbage and talking about their hang-ups &#8211; just like Carrie and Finn.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just a few of the similarities, but I&#8217;m sure I noticed others. One thing I thought was kinda weird &#8211; the town where Reid lives, Snowbound, only has a population of six people?? There&#8217;s only one woman in the town, Reid&#8217;s sister, Lucy. Lucy is pregnant and she flies to Fairbanks each month to do womanly things. I just couldn&#8217;t imagine a town like that existing in modern times? It sounded more like a historical setting? This six-person town had a diner and a general store. I just wondered if such towns really existed in Alaska? I&#8217;ll need to Google it and see!<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, have you ever dated somebody you met on the internet? If so, what happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/johns-quest.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/johns-quest.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Johns-Quest-HEARTSONG-PRESENTS-ebook\/dp\/B008UU4Y36\/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351421925&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=cecelia+dowdy\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snow Bride by Debbie Macomber Have you ever dated somebody you met on the internet? If so, what happened? Jenna is a nice practical gal. She&#8217;s works hard for her boss as a secretary &#8211; she&#8217;s also in love with her boss. However, her boss doesn&#8217;t share the same feelings for her. 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