Casey reviewed on 1/28/2013 + 154 more book reviews

Fans of Janette Oke are going to find a sweet and comfortable haven within the pages of this latest historical novel due to hit bookshelves in April. The second novel in the Gideon and Lonnie saga is taking a new and unexpected twist, one that will twist the heart as well.

This novel has one of those premises that you have to read just to see how everything will be resolved. Two wives? One our hero had no idea he even had? Could such a fact even be plausible?

Its heartbreaking to watch these characters struggle after reading the first book in their series. But the good news is, were not reading the same Gideon or Lonnie as in Be Still My Soul and that gives incredible hope to the reader that the best is still yet to come.

How do you resolve the issues that our characters are faced with? The book doesnt tie it up with the perfect little bow, because a this kind of story cant be easily finished. It has me anxious to resolove their story in book #3.

Its a simple mountain tale told through everyday life from the eyes of our main characters. I could see them and their surroundings, the taste much as Oke did in her Love Comes Softly series.

Nostalgic and fulfilling, its a great family read.

This review is my honest opinion. Thanks to the author for my copy to review.

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