Customer Reviews

The Reapers' Song (Red River of the North #4)

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Even though I felt book 4 was just a bit dragging at times, it kept my interest because it built on the life of Hjelmer. There is finally a blacksmith and a merchantile in town. Penny's only known relative comes to join her. Haaken contracts mumps as they spread throughout the families, and the Bjorkland matriarch arrives with 4 others for vacationing -or is it a move?

A very dramatic incident occurs when Anner, an angry farmer, has a farm accident.

During a 6 wk absence of her husband and against all advise including his, Ingeborg returns to her britches and plowing and has a freak though serious accident. Zeb MacCallister, a fugitive caring for orphans Manda and Deborah, joins the prairie families. Manda talks too much.

Blessing women are discussing the possibility of women's votes and the fact their area is about to become a state. Katy and Zeb are extremely attracted but speak completely different languages.

A bank is opening, several weddings take place, and near the end of the book Zeb sees his siter momentarily and gets a painful scare which forces him into an even more painful decision.

Despite a slight discrepancy in timeframes by the author, I am glad I already have purchased book 5 in this series.

I liked this book. Lauraine makes her characters come to life. Even though they tamed the land,there are struggles left. This is a great book and I recommend anyone to read it. Keep it up Lauraine!

I do not agree with the other reviews, I think these books deals with real issue that faced families that left their homes for a better life. These struggles that faced these families are hard to express. I loved these series.

All I have to say is that they are very good books with strong definte values. I loved them but when is the fifth book in the seris coming out, if there is one? patiently waiting for the next book, a avid lauraine snelling book reader.

I think this book and the other three in the series are great. The first book was hard to get into, but did get much better. They show good strong christian values that should be a part of your everyday living.

I have read this 6-book series, along with other books written by Lauraine Snelling that follow the Bjorklund family. I completely lose myself between the covers of these books. I love learning how life was back in the late 1800's and early 1900's in the Dakota Territory. There were many hardships, but also much love and fellowship. The town is aply named "Blessing". I would highly recommend all the Laurraine Snelling books on the Dakota Territory!

The Red River of the North Series became near and dear to my heart. I simply could not wait to start the next once as soon as I finished the last one. The characters in these stories really became part of me, I felt like I knew them, I hurt when they hurt, I cried when they cried and I celebrated when they were happy. I highly recommend the entire series from beginning to end.

The Reaper's Song is the 4th book in the Red River Of The North series,and it was also an interesting read about the immigrant Norwegian relatives,and some new unrelated newcomers as well. I am very much enjoying reading how this community In North Dakota is growing and what life must have been like for them back in the 1800's in that part of the country especially.

I understand that the series was written to be "historically accurate", but really honestly does every person in the book have to succumb to some horrible debilitating accident, disease, or death???? Although this may have been true to life for that era of time, there is definitely nothing enjoyable about reading so much detail about so much misery. When a person is reading a fiction series, at least I for one want it to be an enjoyable read, even if the subject matter is serious. It could have been written as historically accurate without continual devastating events one on top of the other. I also started losing track of the characters, there were so many and they just sort of get all jumbled in the mix. I enjoyed the first and second books in the series, the third I liked less, and this fourth one I just couldn't continue...I quit about half-way through it and will not read the next.

I enjoy a good historical fiction book that doesn't have extraneous sex scenes in it. Yes, they do mention God and pray to Him, but they don't go overboard with that. I have now read all six books of this series and it was an enjoyable read from book one to book six.