Customer Reviews

The Way Home

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I rated this so high for the first 3/4's of the book. There was no need to explore the mystery going on in town. We could have focused entirely on Eliza and Aaron and been just as happy. There was more than enough with the brothers' love triangle to keep us satisfied. The author really screwed up the last few chapters with the feeling that the epiloque was from a whole 'nother story. Where did that come from??

Anyway.....I read it straight through with the hopes that I would love it till the last page. No such luck.

I gobbled this book up in a day and a half! A warm story full of emotion- people with "ghosts" in their closets, too afraid to believe in themselves and to touch the ones they love. Aaron and Eliza - a couple who fought their own demons before admitting their love for each other. But their love was stronger for that reason. A soft, quiet story but endearing.

Ms. Chance has written an original romance that captivates and brings a longing to help these all too human souls find an end to their aloneness. Eliza is a much more realistic character then most romance heroines, if for no other reason then she has crooked teeth. The characters are not perfect, they don't look perfect, and they certainly don't act perfect. This makes you care for them all the more. In a twist of fate, Eliza finds a man to love, who "needs her". Aaron, her reluctant bridegroom, is silent and painfully inept in his attempts to develop a relationship. Aaron's brother Cole, who impregnates Eliza and walks away with out a thought, has a few redeeming qualities, but his smooth exterior that originally calls to Eliza, is just that, an exterior. The contrast between Aaron's beautiful poetry and Eliza's simple response sum up this book-it speaks to both their souls and ours.

This book kept me up all night. I loved Eliza and Aaron's story. I did wish I could find out more what happened to Cole. Did he find love? Is there another story about him in the works? If you love a tear jerker love story, this is definetly the book for you.

I wasn't prepared to like Eliza, knowing that she was the kind of woman who would barter kisses and more for a chance to escape her dirt-poor existence. But Ms. Chance portrayed Eliza's vulnerability and her insecurity so well that I couldn't help but like her, empathize with her, and root for her to have the love she truly wanted and deserved.

I even found Cole, the smooth-talking, profligate gambler, understandable. So much so that when he got his comeuppance my sense of justice was tinged with a bit of regret.

But Aaron, the shy younger brother forced by duty and guilt to marry his brother's discarded, pregnant lover, was such a deep character, and in my opinion he was the one who needed the most and who grew the most during this story.

If you're looking for a light romp, you won't find it here, but if you love gut-gripping emotion, if you love a poignant story about two lost souls who find true happiness in each other when all they expected to find was an endless, duty-bound existence, then this story is for you.

Once again I'm reminded why Megan Chance is one of my favorite authors. She doesn't take the easy way out with her characters. They're far from perfect, sometimes not even admirable, but somehow she always manages to make me care--deeply.

The first half of the book is all about the relationshp with the hero's brother, and then when the relationship between the h and H begins, the hero doesn't speak. He almost seemed to be autistic, not traumatized and don't think that was the author's intention. Seemed like a missed opportunity here but it just took too long for there to even be any real dialogue.

This is one of my favorite all time romance novels. The plotline is different, the characters interesting and the story absolutely beautiful. Highly recommended. I've read other Megan Chance books and "The Way Home" is by far the best.

This is my second book by Ms. Chance - the first being FALL FROM GRACE. Even though you may not love the characters until the end of the book, or even know where the plot is headed, her stories are compelling, interesting and just different. Different in a good way. They draw you into the book even though sometimes the story line makes you uncomfortable. Her characters aren't perfect - either in looks or character - but they are human with all the flaws and problems inherent in our nature. Good read.

This is my second book by Ms. Chance - the first being FALL FROM GRACE. Even though you may not love the characters until the end of the book, or even know where the plot is headed, her stories are compelling, interesting and just different. Different in a good way. They draw you into the book even though sometimes the story line makes you uncomfortable. Her characters aren't perfect - either in looks or character - but they are human with all the flaws and problems inherent in our nature. Good read.

This is clearly one of the top historical romance novels I have ever read. It had a sadness than you'll rarely find in romance novels, but it's not depressing. It works.

Megan Chance has written this book with such tenderness and such a skill for making you care about the characters. Eliza is more naive and simple than most women of romance novels, but she never comes across as stupid. And Aaron's character is one of the most touching and original men in romance novel history.

Bring out the Kleenex because you'll cry buckets in this very very touching romance novel.