I'm still reading, but just had to say that the cover doesn't match up with the story AT ALL. One would think that there'd be someone in charge of making sure the art went with the story, but clearly, whoever that was hadn't read this book. I was a paragraph in when I realized that the main chara...
Small town story set in 1942 during WW2. Cole Ambrose has come back to his home town to be a teacher. Cole can't join the war because he has a a club foot. He has a strained relationship with his Dad. Cole falls in love with a farm girl of German decent. Her family has been the victims of overt r...
I really enjoyed this book. It made for an interesting read about the realities and cruelty of prejudice. I enjoyed the development of Sophie and Cole's romance. It was really sweet to read about their love blossom. If I have to state one thing I did not enjoy about this book it's some of the lan...
I think the author raced to the end and missed a great opportunity. Imagine a young girl giving birth in a shelter filled with twenty or so ranch hands stuck close by while a tornado rages above. She and the baby would have protectors for the rest of their lives. Now about what the author actuall...
I liked the premise of this story very much, but I found the main character hard to empathize with. Sometimes she could be wise and others she would behave like a misguided teenager. This was a story that needed many more layers because all the issues touched upon are complex. For example, post...
Well, I liked it until near the end. First of all, the sex out of nowhere. I just wish I'd been able to tell at the beginning something like that might happen, then I wouldn't have read it! Then, she is molested and keeps on going like literally NOTHING HAPPENED?! Are you kidding? Sorry, but I do...
The Third Installment of the Route 66 Series. An overall fast paced and beautifully written novel set place in the early 1900s, including a young woman with hidden secrets named Mary Lee and her baby on the way. After receiving word of her father's death, Mary Lee felt heartbroken enough, but aft...
I couldn't quite give this one star, though it may have deserved it, because it was going ok until I hit a put-down moment, and I just couldn't keep reading. Maybe I'm being hard on it, especially since the moment came pretty early in the book, but sheesh...So, the daughter of a fire and brimesto...
Audiobook.A little melodramatic. The heroine first met her husband when she was kidnapped. After she gave birth to a baby missing part of skull, he wanted a divorce because he blamed his bad genes for what happened. Then he took off to serve during World War II. When he returns, he finds she didn...
Very interesting read. I liked the authentic voice in this book. I was drawn in to the depression era and felt this was what Oklahoma was really like at the time. I normally hate a book when an unhappy married man gets involved with a tender heart like Henry Ann. Yet here, it didn't seemed not so...
Being a news editor myself i thoroughly enjoyed the historical information endorsed in the novel about the various printing and publishing techniques. The idea of special edition was very innovative. As for the characters, it was easy for me to imagine them because the author has given a detailed...