When Andy McBride first sees Louisa Martin at University of Utah’s medical school, he’s immediately intrigued - as is the rest of his class. Louisa is obviously different than the rest of the class with her long hair pulled up in a bun and her old-fashioned, long-sleeved ankle-length dress. She has all the markings someone from a polygamous community. But it’s not what she’s wearing that intrigues Andy - it’s her beauty. But how can a fundamentalist Mormon and a mainstream Mormon ever have a relationship?

It’s an interesting topic for author Janet Kay Jensen to write about: a mainstream Mormon boy that falls in love with a fundamentalist Mormon that believes in polygamy. The only reason Louisa Martin is in medical school is so she can return to her community to be the resident family physician. It’s nearly impossible for her to have a long-term relationship with Andy, and when medical school ends, they both go their separate ways - Louisa back to her community, and Andy to the hills of Kentucky. But with a twist of fate, love is found again and if you want to know how that happens, you’ll have to read Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys.

I was really intrigued by this book. Granted, it’s a work of fiction, but polygamy is a pretty mysterious topic. I thought Janet Kay Jensen’s plot worked very well - the two separate but intertwined lives of a couple separated by religion. The book went very well until the climax, and then I lost interest during the last 45 pages. It’s hard to say in this review what went wrong with the book without giving away the ending, but I just thought it became disjointed at the end, almost like the author was starting another story after one had just ended with happily ever after.

Still, it was a decent book from a budding novelist. I’d love to see what Ms. Jensen comes up with next.

You can find Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys at www.cedarfort.com or wherever LDS books are sold.