Customer Reviews

The Rescue (The English Garden Series #2)

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I don't know about it being Wick's best (I can't decide which of her series I love the most), but The Rescue is as good as any of her other series. Anne is a sweet young woman who has lost her mother and is living with and trying to take care of a father who has been ill and who has some mental challenges; she has lost almost all of her possessions and the house she is living in is sadly in need of repairs. Anne is attempting to attend to some of those house repairs when Robert Weston, whom she has never met as he is just getting ready to move into the area, startles her and she ends up receiving her first rescue from Weston as he rescues her from a nasty fall. Unfortunately, Anne's father mistakes the closeness between her and Weston and his mind won't accept any excuses for them not to be married...immediately! I won't ruin any more of the surprises; I will say, however, that this book does a good job of illustrating how people's gossip (and how they sometimes believe the worst without evidence) can really hurt an innocent person - and that Christians are not exempt from the pain they can cause by gossiping. Also - God will provide, including someone to love.

Hooray for Lorie Wick! This book was so good! I loved it! I read it in a day flat. I loved the personalities of Robert and Anne, and I loved the way Lorie brought them together in the end. This was a very relaxing and enjoyable book completely different from most of the books that Lorie has written. I do highly recommend this one.

This book is very good! It's written very well and the plot is interesting. At first when I read it, I was like, what the heck! But it is now one of my favorites that I read in a day. I highly recommend this book!

I greatly looked forward to this next book in the English Garden series. I loved the way Lori made all of character's names from Jane Austin's novels (Marianna, Jennings, Palmer, etc). Very creative! The story is of that time period and written very similar to Austin's style. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's not like the rest of Wick's writing, but that's fine. I love it when author's get out of their niche to expand their writting skills. Lori does that in explorary style while teaching us all a valuable lesson in trusting in God. I highly recommend this book & series to any Christian fiction fans, as well as Jane Austin fans, since you will appreciate Lori's obvious love for Austin's books. I'm already looking forward 'til the next one! :-D

A bit heavy, sad, but works out to make it a good read. The relationship between the main characters goes from strained, to good, to painful, and back to where God wanted it from the start. It's a wonderfully written book.

I bought this Lori Wick book because I have all her other fiction on my "keeper" shelf. Every work of fiction she has ever written, I own. I simply want to keep my collection in tact.

The plot in this story was basically nonexistent, the characters boring and not particulary likeable. I didn't mind that the book spent so much time with the characters from "The Proposal" - as unfulfilling as that story was, those characters were better than the ones in "The Rescue".

The plot centers around a young woman, born a lady but forced by circumstances to live the life of a lower class woman. She literally falls off a ladder into the arms of a man and her dementia suffering father demands the gentleman marry the daughter. The daughter tells the man to go along, but never once does she tell the gentleman that the "marriage" will only be to pacify her father for the moment and is not a "real" marriage. The woman is "terrified" for the gentleman's life but doesn't have the guts to blurt out the truth quickly because "he has an angry look on his face". This is a strong-willed woman who takes care of her father with little to no resources, but she's afraid of an angry look? Regardless of the era, I find that hard to swallow. Perhaps that plot weakness is why I didn't find the book very satisfying.

I understand that during the early 1800s there was much that hurt a reputation, but Anne's desire to protect Robert, despite his boorish attitude with her, is unrealistic. The only really realistic conversation in the entire book to my mind was when Anne asked her Pastor's wife if Robert, as a new groom, would expect intimacy right away. The Pastor's wife told her he would and advised Anne not to put him off. As it turns out, this was not the case with Robert, but the advice was the correct advice. So why then did the Pastor's wife regret that piece of advice??? THAT advice and counsel was realistic to the times.

Mrs. Wick does provide the teaching of the Gospel, as is done in all her books, and there is a character conversion, as is done in all her books. I do like this aspect of her work. However, I would really like to see a character change a human flaw with God's help rather than seeming to need Him only for their "love life".

I really miss Mrs. Wick's fine work in her earlier novels. As She seems more determined to keep putting books on the shelves every six months rather than write "different" books. Read the Kensington Chronicles if you haven't - they are so much better than this series.

Perhaps the next series, not to mention book, will better garner my attention.

I thought this book was great. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. "The Rescue" shows you all about love and how you can learn to love someone. I would recommend this book to everybody. No matter what age you are you are going to love it!

In the two weeks I've owned this book I have read it four times. I have never read
a book that I have enjoyed more. I found once I started I couldn't put it down until
I read the last page and it's the same way each time I read it. I love all the books in
the English Garden Series but this one is by far my favorite.
You quickly fall in love with both Weston and Anne, and delight in each new development
in their relationship with each other and with God. If you're new to Lori Wick's books,
this is a wonderful one to start with.

I thought that "The Rescue" was an entertaining book. It mixes humor with Godly advice. As the story unfolds, it gets better page by page. I haven't read the first book of the English Garden series, but I hope that I will be able to. Although I enjoyed this book, I don't think it was the best book I've read by Lori Wick. My favorite book she has written is "Sophie's Heart". I enjoy reading Christian romance books and Lori Wick is one of my favorite authors.

I was a little apprehensive about buying this book. I had read "The Proposal" (the first book in the series) and was a little disappointed in it. But "The Rescue" was pretty good. Not one of Lori Wick's best, but it was good.