10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tender Love Story with Wagon Trail Adventures, August 10, 2010
This review is from: Montana Dawn (Home in the Heartland) (Mass Market Paperback)
Luke discovers Faith alone giving birth along side of the wagon trail in Montana at dawn. Faith is running away from a horrible memory that includes a criminal brother-in-law who is following her. Luke brings the family to his ranch and falls in love with a strong-willed woman who is determined to keep running away. Golden Heart Award winner Caroline Fyffe's writing is so descriptive that at times you feel like you're on the wagon trail with her characters. Her wonderful use of dialogue includes slang and cliches that make the story seem true to life back in the days. They probably said things like "about as sociable as a festerin' back tooth" back in 1883. The adventures of living in the West along with a tender love story kept me reading and wanting more.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Heroine Could Have Trusted More, August 6, 2010
This review is from: Montana Dawn (Home in the Heartland) (Mass Market Paperback)
I bought this book because I loved Ms. Fyffe's 'When the Wind Blows'. I was hoping for another keeper. Sadly, this wasn't so.
The positive side of this story was our hero, Luke McCutcheon, and the unusual beginning to this historical western. Who wouldn't fall in love with a male in the 1800's who would help deliver a child from someone he just met, literally....in a darkened covered wagon....in the pouring rain?
On the run, our heroine Faith has started her labor early. -Writing about ladies giving birth in romances is done sometimes and usually the event is glossed over. Ms. Fyffe does a good job in making it appear as realistically as possible.- A stepson in tow, Faith is determined to make a new life. Her deceased husband was abusive and there is an element of mystery as to how he died. The husband's brother is determined to marry Faith and bring her back to the fold.
I was flustered because Faith was too naive and mistrusting. Luke was kind and helping. He never gave her any reason to think otherwise. He had his own personal demons but his family was wonderful- Yeah! Two parents and siblings who actually get along with one another.- Of course, Luke and Faith were both good-looking and that was mentioned a little too often for my taste. I enjoy when one or both lead characters doesn't look so perfect.
There is some gentle humor that is another plus but the story ran about 25-50 pages too long because Faith continually didn't think how keeping her secrets hidden would have some terrible repercussions. The reader is told that her father distanced himself from her while she was growing up and she had no siblings to influence her BUT she did have friends who treated her well and showed her that there are people who are good. You know she's smart, she had to be to survive her previous marriage. Unfortunately those smarts didn't spread when she met Luke and his extended family.
Because I LOVED 'When the Wind Blows' and I know Ms. Fyffe has the ability to write a sweet gentle love story I will consider reading a third book by her. This one was OK, I am just sorry that I can't recommend the story. If you are looking for a wonderful historical romance and haven't tried her first book, seek it out; it is so good it is on my Keeper shelf.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Beautiful Heart Warming Story, November 3, 2011
This is a beautiful heart warming story, you know that love is going to blossom - you just don't know how it's going to end.
I don't think I've ever read a Western Romance before so I wasn`t really very sure what to expect, I feel that it was perfectly set and the scenes, smells and sounds were so vivid that I felt that I was sat in the midst of it. I found that the more I read, the more I bonded with not only the main characters but all of the characters, even down to the ranch hands and I became used to `seeing' them as I read each page - I think I'll quite miss them now I've finished.
The storyline flows well and the book gets off to quite a dramatic start, it's a fast paced book and has just the right balance of cowboys, horses and love!! I found myself laughing, smiling and crying as I was reading, the way the author has wrote this just captures your emotions and sweeps you along as you are reading.
I'm heading off to find the next part of the McCutcheon series - I'm looking forward to reading it.
Hayley Sale ~ The Kindle Book Review
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