Review of The Captured Bride

Title: The Captured Bride 

Author: Michelle Griep 

Pages: 256

Series: Daughters of the Mayflower book 3 

Genre: Christian Historical fiction 

Rating: 4 stars 

The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep is the third book in the Daughters of the Mayflower, but it was the first book in the series that I didn't DNF. While the writing of the first two books was good the storyline of The Mayflower Bride and The Pirate Bride just didn't hold my attention.  

But I loved Mercy Lytton and Elias Dubois. Everyone thought Elias was a traitor who started out working for the English but then switched to the French. Mercy was a woman doing a man's job as a scout. Half white half Mohawk but raised as a full blooded Mohawk.   

I always seem to like the frontier stories set during the colonial period more than the ones set in the "civilized"  areas of the colonies. These stories just seem more real with strong characters both male and females, because I pretty sure colonial and frontier women had to be tough in order to survive. Michelle's The Captured Bride captures those aspects of a frontier novel. She's not afraid to shy away from the rough, gritty, and dirty aspects of frontier life.  Real frontier life wasn't pretty and it wasn't clean.  

In The Captured Bride, Michelle Griep doesn't white wash history but she also doesn't make the Natives out to be the automatic villains either so that was a nice change of pace from similar novels. This is the second frontier novel by Michelle that I have read the other being A Captive Heart.  In both these novels her main character has a foot in two worlds, one white and the other Native.   She does it with the right balance she doesn't favor one side over the other. 

The Captured Bride was the first novel I read set during the French and Indian War, I now want to look for other book set during this time period.  As well as more books by Michelle Griep. She now joins Laura Frantz as my go to frontier authors.