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Love Comes Softly (Love Comes Softly Series #1)

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I read 3 books by Janette Oke over the last 2 weeks. They are really easy, escape literature. If you liked Little House On the Prairie when you were growing up these are the adult versions. I discovered them via the movies. I really like to read the book before I see the movie and when I saw an advertisement about these movies I felt I should read the books. I have enjoyed them quite a bit. The chapters are short so I can get one in on breaks between my work around the house.

It starts with Love Comes Softly where you meet Marty and Clem and look at how hard life on the frontier really must have been. Marty marries Clem out of desperation but will anything come of this marriage or will she be heading back east soon?

These are Christian Literature. One of the things I enjoyed the most about them is that they really seem to reflect how hard life was then. The work was endless and the tools were hard to come by. These people really did have to do for themselves and make do the best they could.

I don't normally read books that aren't romantic suspense but after reading one that had a lot of blood shed I thought I would read a simple book for a change. I felt that a book by a christian writer wouldn't have any filth and that is what I needed. Wow... I truly enjoyed the story of Marty and Clark.

Marty having just lost her husband was asked by Clark to marry him the same day of the funeral. She is shocked but realizes her choices are few as she has no where to go. He tells her it's only because his 2 year old daughter Missy needs a mother. While Marty doesn't want anything to do with him as she misses her dead husband dreadfully Clark allows her all the time to adjust, not touching her and even telling her that if she didn't want to stay in the future he would let her go.

The kindness and patience this man Clark shows Marty was the reason I decided to continue reading, wanting Marty to accept Clark and realize the great man of that God that she had been blessed with kept me reading well into the night because I had to know what would happen next. The ending had me sighing.

I just finished reading book two, Love's Enduring Promise... you must also as Marty and Clark's story continues and ends with Missy's.

While romantic suspense books kept me wondering about who the killer was, Janette Oke books make me think of God and how even during the bad times, Clark's God was always there.

I absolutely loved the Love Comes Softly movies so bought the books, the original version. These books would be so good if it weren't for the awful dialog. I just can't get past it. Example: "We'll find everythin' we want there in thet new country. The land's there fer the takin." "What 'bout a house? It'll be most winter when we git there." Does anyone know if the revised versions of the books cleaned up the dialog or did they just change the covers? Such a shame. I was really looking forward to reading these books! Or should I say, "readin' them thar books!"

My Husband and I watched the movie version of the book a couple of times together. I would have to say that it is a movie with a fantastic message of hope, love and compassion. It's the type of story that brings the message forward. These are the messages that live on for generations to come.

Thank you for writing such heart moving books.
Jeanne Ali Bocus
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This is the first in a series and its a wonderful series of books and so very well written. And the author writes so wonderfully.

I enjoyed this; it's like Little House on the Prairie for grown women. I DID think that Marty says "dad-burn it" a few too many times (it starts to seem a bit cheesy), but a nice read. Clark seems like the ultimate man.

Great story! I listened to this on CD, so my experience may be a bit different. I watched all the movies in this series on the Hallmark Channel a couple of years ago and they were recently on again which made me want to read them.

This story is a great story with Christian undertones (and overtones) throughout. You read the story of Marty, a young woman who's husband unexpectedly passes away as they are moving out west. Marty, on the day of her husband's funeral, reluctantly chooses to marry Clark Davis, a local man with a young daughter who's wife recently passed away. The story is about their new life together and how they deal with living with another person that they only chose out of convenience and need for the winter.

If you like historical fiction, and a nice, feel good, easy read, this is a great story.

This series of Janette Okes. It was recommendated by a friend. I am waiting for all the books to arrive before I begin to read the first one so that I can read them in order and with out interruption.