Mail Order Madness (Brides of Beckham Book 3)

Mail Order Madness (Brides of Beckham) is the third in the Brides of Beckham series. I read them somewhat out of order. However, this only compliments the series as I normally do not like to read "backwards". And I had read the second first, then the first and now the third.As with the second book,  Mail Order Mama (Brides of Beckham) , I enjoyed the culture clash somehow. Only this time it was not East versus West, shy versus boisterous but child rearing.Susan, the heroine, is desperate to leave her small family farm with her eleven younger siblings behind. For as long as she remembers, she is babysitting, cooking, sawing and cleaning. While she and her next three siblings were raised very strict and had felt switch when they misbehaved, she realizes that her parents were just simply tired after four kids and the seven that followed were allowed to run wild.David, the hero, grew up somewhat privileged and inherited the family ranch. His wife died after giving birth to twins. He has been a widower with 4 "hellion" boys for a year, unable to hold on to a nanny, when his younger brother tells him that he has sent for a mail order bride. His brother is rather independent and is saving up to buy his own ranch, not wanting to have the ranch the brother grew up, split in half. Therefore he had asked for a simply young woman who would help him save his funds towards that goal.Susan had deliberately picked Jess as her groom as he has no children. She loves children but has clear ideas on how to raise them and how she expects them to behave. Jess is a newspaper man (reporter) and is killed on assignment while Susan is on her way to Texas to marry. David, who had considered sending for a mail order bride himself, one who would not know how is boys were regarded in the community, offers for Susan himself.The rest of the books is about how Susan gets the boys to behave, leaving her methods - a good smack on the bottom - behind as per David's orders (and he is quite firm in those) and using ingenuity to outsmart the little boys and getting them to behave.There is not a whole lot of romance, kind of difficult with 4 kids under the age of 8 around at all times but the author does manage to show the growing awareness in David that Susan is what the children need even when at times he clueless undermines her.As I said in my review of  Mail Order Mayhem (Brides of Beckham) , I hope the author will write the story of Harriet Long, the owner of the match making agency the brides of Beckham use. I believe, her story could be the most interesting one.

Susan is tired! Being the oldest of 12 siblings. Now her sister Elizabeth has also had enough. They both work tirelessly to try to keep the younger ones out of trouble, but, sometimes it gets to be to much. So Susan makes a decision after reading an ad in the paper. She asks Elizabeth to go with her to meet Mrs. Harriet Long to see if she can help. Of course Harriet can help! She asks Susan some questions and finds just the right letter for her to read. So Susan answers Jesse Dailey's letter. When she gets to Texas she finds that Jesse has been killed two weeks prior and his brother David is there to welcome her. David asks her if she would consider being his bride instead. Susan isn't sure especially after he tells her his wife died in childbirth two years prior and he has twin boys. Only she thought that was all he had until she arrives for dinner with him that night and finds he has four sons, 8, 6 and of course the twins at 2. However, since they are all so well behaved she tells him yesterday's, she will marry him. Only is what she saw at dinner the truth about the boy's behavior? Will she be able to handle them the same way she did her siblings? What happens next? Only one way to find out, read this great story by Kristen Osbourne.

This book was such a great block. I loved how firmly and strongly the main character Susan felt about children misbehaving. Is reflected very much in my own life. But I really appreciated the way she overcame it and how she realized that her strongest dislikes became became something she could overcome.

The "Brides of Beckham" series is getting to be more fun to read as each book is written. Susan is the Beckham, Massachusetts bride in this story. A young 18 year old, the oldest in a family of 12, 8 of which are outright hellions, she decides she wants out of her current life and that it is time for her to marry, have a husband and home of her own, with her own children that she can control and discipline her own way. She contacts the mail order business of Harriett Long to find a husband. I must say that the character of Harriett Long is getting more interesting and mysterious with each book!. Susan chooses Jesse Dailey, a single journalist in Ft. Worth, Texas. After a long 10 day train ride, she arrives in Ft. Worth tired and dirty, smelling like vomit from the 2 year old that latched onto her on the train trip. She is beginning to feel like a child magnant! She then is shocked and bewildered to be met instead by Jesse's brother David, who informs her that Jesse was killed while investigating a murder in Ft. Worth. But the shock and confusion doesn't end there. David, a widower, asks Susan to marry him in Jesse's place. Susan, now left in Fort Worth with no money decides to marry David. But what David fails to tell Susan is that he has 4 little male hellions of his own. That is when the story gets really interesting! Mail Order Madness is a sweet little treat. Readers who enjoy mail order bride romances should definitely put The "Brides of Beckham" series at the top of their wish list!

Another cute story about a young woman who decides she's had enough dealing with her demon horde of brothers and sisters. She chooses to marry Jesse, a newspaperman looking for a mail order bride. She arrives in Texas and finds out her groom has been killed. His brother, David asks her to marry him. But wait, there's a problem. David is a widower with four young boys. He convinces her they are well-behaved, and against her better judgment, she agrees to marry him, only to find out the two older boys are hellion of the first order.I thoroughly enjoyed how Susan turns theses little boys around. This author has a way with writing about children. I do wish there was more interaction between David and Susan. As a romance it's a bit lacking. Also at 3.99 it's a bit expensive for 143 pages. I do notice that she has bundled some of her books together, but even at 7.99 for 399 pages is a bit steep. I'm not sure whether I'll continue to read on or not.

You never know what kind of curve ball life will throw you, and Susan is about to find out just how "unfair" life can be. Tired of being in the beehive called her family, the oldest of eleven children, she decides it's time to forge a life of her own. After signing up to become a mail order bride, she prepares to head west to Fort Worth, with the hopes of a quiet life, at least for a few years. The young man she's to wed has an ambitious life plan, and she's anxious to become a part of it. But life has thrown her a fast ball this time, as she discovers her betrothed has been murdered before she could arrive, but his older brother is offering to take his place. The moment David laid eyes upon the beauty that was to have been his brother's wife, he knew he was a goner. Now all he had to do, was convince her that she should marry him instead. If only his unruly children will behave.A beautiful tale of love and the many struggles had in a time when life was hard, but love shone bright.

The young woman is 18 years old and lives with her parents and her siblings. There are 12 other children in her home. She wants out of the madness which is her siblings which cause trouble at every moment they can from egg fights, painting the animals and final straw pushing the outhouse over!She agrees to marry a man who is a reporter and on the way he is killed she meets the mans brother and after meeting his children which are well behaved she agrees to marry him in place of the other brother.Will she get her happy ending or will these children be as wicked as the siblings she left behind?Fantastic book. I had to laugh at some of the antics these children cause.Grab a copy and a cup of coffee enjoy the life of this young woman.

I downloaded after reading the free download in the series found it a nice easy read. I have since bought the other books in the series and have progressed to the Suitors of Seattle.

The "Brides of Beckham" mail order bride series has been a very enjoyable read. The stories are good and the characters are well written.

Loved this book was well written couldnt put it down until I had finshed the whole book. Great characters.Cant say much more about it realy