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danicapage's review
4.0
I love Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller's style of writing. This is a great book and I am interested in seeing how this story develops in the next novel.
jjlibrarian's review
2.0
I usually like Tracie Peterson but this book dragged on and on and on.. While I'm curious about what will happen in the next one, I am not sure I will ever have time to read it.
danicapage's review against another edition
4.0
I love Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller's style of writing. This is a great book and I am interested in seeing how this story develops in the next novel.
shammons's review against another edition
3.0
Very good free Christian fiction I got for my Kindle. This is the first of three, but unfortunately for me, the others are not free for Kindle, nor does my library have them to loan. I am not going to pay the 9.99 that they cost at Amazon currently to read more. I did enjoy the book, about the Broadmoor family and did enjoy the time frame (late 1800's, right before the turn of the century). I liked the 3 characters, which apparently each book follows one of the girl cousins), and did enjoy this one with Fanny's story. The book left it hanging, which I assume is to entice you to buy the next one. However, considering I have over 700 books left to read on my Kindle, I'll wait till I can find these free or greatly reduced :)
55bookworm63's review against another edition
1.0
Was a bit disappointing. From what I could tell, there was only 2 or 3 characters, that believed in God. Everyone else just went through the motions. Take out the very few bible references and this book is main stream fiction. There is nothing in this book to inspire me to know God, or rely on Him, not to mention that the main character didn't rely on Him for support or guidance!
kgormley's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't like the way this book ended ... it seemed very abrupt, and there is no "happy ending" for the main character. I'm sure the authors have done this so you'll read the next book(s) in the series, but from what I have gathered so far, the remaining two books in the series will focus on Fanny's two cousins (Sophie and Amanda)and Fanny's story will (hopefully) be finished up, but in the background of the other two. I would have rather gotten a happy ending to Fanny's story and then had little tidbits of her continuing story as background in the next two books, but that's just me. It also seems like it is taking too long for the whole issue of Fanny's inheritance to be settled and it's taking far too long for anyone to catch on to the fact that her Uncle Jonas is up to no good.
aublar's review against another edition
4.0
This is a great story; romantic, clean, and heartwarming.
The setting of the book was so important to the plot, that it was a little jarring when the setting completely changed. I felt like I didn't know the characters (except Jonas) outside of Broadmore Island and somehow I expected them to be different off the island.
This book made me think a lot about social classes. Classes must exist if anyone wants to experience something nice or luxurious. For example, the wealthy can only have a fancy party if there are poorer people who need the work to prepare and serve the food, etc. I have only been able to enjoy cruises because there are people poorer than me who need the money and are willing to work the crummy cruise line jobs. I am sure that most of my clothes only exist for the same reason If we were all truly socially and economically equal, we would all have to be working class, without luxuries or nice things. (Unless we all agreed to take turns serving each other...ha!) Rich only exists if there is poor and vice versa. Does this mean that I will stop wearing mass produced clothes or taking nice vacations? Probably not, but it was interesting to think about.
The setting of the book was so important to the plot, that it was a little jarring when the setting completely changed. I felt like I didn't know the characters (except Jonas) outside of Broadmore Island and somehow I expected them to be different off the island.
This book made me think a lot about social classes. Classes must exist if anyone wants to experience something nice or luxurious. For example, the wealthy can only have a fancy party if there are poorer people who need the work to prepare and serve the food, etc. I have only been able to enjoy cruises because there are people poorer than me who need the money and are willing to work the crummy cruise line jobs. I am sure that most of my clothes only exist for the same reason If we were all truly socially and economically equal, we would all have to be working class, without luxuries or nice things. (Unless we all agreed to take turns serving each other...ha!) Rich only exists if there is poor and vice versa. Does this mean that I will stop wearing mass produced clothes or taking nice vacations? Probably not, but it was interesting to think about.
esthery_rn's review against another edition
2.0
Meh. I felt like I was jumping into the middle of a big series with a ton of people included in the book only because I “knew” them from past books. This very well could be—there’s a family tree at the beginning and this series is about three cousins in the third generation, so maybe other Peterson/Miller series are about others in that family tree.
Overall, I felt like the book was about 50% too long for the content. And even though the pacing seemed off and the book too long, there was no conclusion. It wasn’t even a cliffhanger—it just ended. I’ll read the next two because I was given the trilogy, but I don’t have high hopes.
Overall, I felt like the book was about 50% too long for the content. And even though the pacing seemed off and the book too long, there was no conclusion. It wasn’t even a cliffhanger—it just ended. I’ll read the next two because I was given the trilogy, but I don’t have high hopes.
militsa's review
2.0
I was really enjoying it at first, but it was too slow paced and got boring and repetitive.
I really liked the main character's cousins(specially the wicked one) and think they could have been better explored.
Maybe the sequel shows improvements but I'm most likely not going to find out.
I really liked the main character's cousins(specially the wicked one) and think they could have been better explored.
Maybe the sequel shows improvements but I'm most likely not going to find out.