Customer Reviews

Lily and the Major (The Orphan Train Trilogy)

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This story has everything. A hero and heroine that you can easily fall in love with. They're well suited. For a change she isn't helpless waiting for rescue and he isn't brooding waiting for someone to see his softer side. There is romance and humor and the love scenes are too hot!!

This is first book of the orphan train series, it made me want to read the 2 other books so as to know what is the ending. I recently bought Caroline and the raider but I haven't had time to read it yet, I hope that it will be as good as the first book!

I just feel in love with the characters in this book. It's a great book, once you open it and begin to read it, you can't put it down. I know you will love this book and you'll enjoy the characters in there also.....enjoy.

This a great book! It was non-stop action and a real page turner. They were hot for each other right from the beginning. Lily was very defiant and fighting the feelings she had for Caleb and he was at times more than exasperated with her. I cannot count the number of times he threatened to spank her, but they truly loved each other. This book has everything...great sex, humor and undying love. I highly recommend this along with the other two in the Orphan trilogy...Emma and the Outlaw and Caroline and the Raider! All three are keepers!

All the romance books I own are well-read and loved. I enjoy returning to them. This one would not be among them.

The story was confusing and both the hero and heroin did not arouse any great feelings of liking with me. I found Lilly perplexing and quite stupid. Just as she made up her mind to do something the major would come along and she'd sleep with him.
The major was an odious brute. His treatment of Lilly bordered on abusive and at times the story left me feeling quite sick.
Both characters were badly constructed with their personalities changing throughout the story. The major went from being a 'never going to marry' to suddenly 'I'll marry for love' position, with no explanation of the change.

I found the side plots more enjoyable (Velvet the reformed prostitute & Sandra: the major's ex-wife) but was bitterly disappointed by the ending which resolved nothing.

The whole story left me confused, but was so badly constructed and included so many ill timed sex scenes that I WILL NOT be re-reading it again to work out what happened.

Borrow this book from a library before you buy it. I don't think it will be worth you money to purchase it.

Great read. The first in the Orphan Train series. Wonderful serie

I kept reading this book waiting for it to get better. It didn't. I only continued reading to find out if she found her sisters, only to learn this was a trilogy, (It was not marked on the cover as such) The entire story could have been summed up in two pages if you had taken out all the sex scenes. The major was a jerk and Lily was a bit too wanton. A major disappointment for LLM readers.

...but you might want to pass on this one. Unless, of course, you enjoy a "romance" novel with boring, repetitive sex scenes, a "hero" who treats women like crap and an "innocent" heroine who gives it away the first chance she gets to - the guy who treats women like crap!(...and keeps giving, and giving, ad nauseum.) I forced myself to finish this book because I don't think it's fair to review something I haven't read all the way through. But when I got done all I could think was thank goodness I read Emma and Caroline's stories first. If I had read L&tM first, I likely never would have picked up the others. They are both terrific books, filled with the tenderness and gentle love missing from "Lily...". I recommend them highly, but readers who love true romance shouldn't bother with this one.

This is LINDA LAEL MILLER'S book, LILY AND THE MAJOR. A tale of love involving Lily, a young woman who is bent on finding her two sisters, all who were abandoned by their mother at a young age. Lily and the other Chalmers sisters were separated when taken to the orphanage. Lily meets Major Caleb Halliday during her quest and Lily's life is changed in yet another way. This time, for a good purpose and for love. With Caleb's help, Lily grows into the loving woman she is meant to be and she finds out that she has enough love for Caleb and also love for her lost sisters. This is the first book in the Orphan Train Triology about the Chalmers sisters. The other two are "Emma and the Outlaw" and "Caroline and the Raider." They can be read alone, but are great together.

Ms. Miller has written yet another great book. I enjoyed the entire trio when I read them over a decade ago and they are still fresh in mind, although I did not mind reading them again. Great read!

When The Major want to convince Lily of anything he has to sleep with her at 1st it was fun but after it was a lot and not romantic in the least and lily loved him and she was with a baby and still no for the marriage even though she agreed in the end after she thought about it and she said ,she can't have her dreams when she is married but she did . i'd advise u not to waste ur time reading this story , there are other stories for Linda which were much better !