When he passes out in a fever near her, and all she's worried about is that maybe he'll try to have sex with her. Again, no compassion whatsoever to the fact that he's in agony. What about Sarah? Oh, she just yells at him for drinking, because she doesn't like alcohol. So Sam has to just drink whiskey and sleep, hoping to heal. They have to run away, and there is no time to see a doctor, no medication available. How heartless do you have to be, to see another human dying before your eyes, your husband no less, and not give his life or pain any mind, only worrying about the mild discomfort caused to you by TAKING THE KNIFE OUT OF HIS BACK?!! When Sarah sees him bleeding and he asks her to take out the knife she tells him he owes her, because she doesn't like the sight of blood. The first day of their marriage her new husband gets stabbed in the back. So it starts out with a mail-order bride trope. This book was SO DUMB I'm afraid reading it might have caused some brain damage.
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