Author: Julie
Lessman
Genre: Romance,
life, family
Series: Daughters
of Boston
Number in
series: 3rd
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 8.5 high
Type: Fiction
Time
period: 1920s
My overall
opinion: A sweet story! I really love the leading lady, Elizabeth – she’s
just a sweetheart through and through. And Brady! He is an upstanding young
man, and his great qualities shine through on every page. Julie did an amazing
job with that. He’s a hero to fall in love with. There was enough mystery in
here to keep me puzzled (which is more of a challenge than you might think).
But the conclusion was most decidedly satisfying and made me happy. As I’ve
mentioned in former reviews of other books by Julie, her books are more
passionate than most – though this was not her most passionate book. All in
all? This is a lovely book, sure to please!
Author: Julie Lessman
Genre: Romance
Series: Daughters
of Boston
Number in
series: 2nd
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 9.5
Type: Fiction
Number of
pages: 477 (trust me, the pages FLY by!)
Time
period: 1920s
Publisher
and price: Revell, $14.99
My overall
opinion: Wow. Julie knows how to keep her readers on the edges of their
seats! I’m about to start book three and am quite persuaded that the whole
series is brilliant and I have NO idea how in the world Julie came up with so
many fascinating twists and turns – it’s stunning. My apologies…this review is
disorganized. So it goes. I feel like the family situation here is going to be
super awkward, and wouldn’t actually work in real life – Faith and Charity were
both engaged to their sister’s future husbands at one point or another. Yeah.
Awkward. Also, a word up – Julie’s books are on the more passionate end of
Christian fiction. Save for older readers. Finally, I don’t always really agree
with some of the decision and actions made by or done by the characters, even
when the book makes them out to be fine – I feel like they are rather less
conservative about some things than they should be. However, despite these few
problems, I still managed to LOVE this book and come out giving it a 9.5!
Obviously the main character is named Charity (SO COOL), and so this book has
been on my to-read shelf for years – only now did I finally get to it! On page
466, I was persuaded that there was no way all the loose ends could be tied up
by the end – but by page 477, ta-da! The book was finished and somehow,
everything WAS resolved! The whole book was fascinating and impossible to put
down. The drama is constant. And can I just say…I love Patrick and Marcy’s
marriage (they’re Faith and Charity’s parents) and I want my marriage to be
like that when I’ve been married as many years as them. All in all? This book
had a few things that I wasn’t entirely on board with. But it’s definitely
worth my time and I can’t wait to read book 3 later this week!
Author: Julie
Lessman
Genre: Romance,
life
Series: Daughters
of Boston
Number in
series: 1st
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 9 high
Type: Fiction
Number of
pages: 477
Time
period: early 1900s
Publisher
and price: Revell, $14.99
My overall
opinion: Wow. What a book. I had to sit and take a few deep breaths to get
my thoughts in order for this review! :) First of all, it was really cool to
have a Charity in a book as a main character. She actually stars in the next
book (review coming soon), but she was pretty important in this one too. Albeit
she wasn’t a likable character here…but her name made up for it (my name is
uncommon…finding someone who shares it is awesome). There were SO many
intricacies in here that it was mind-boggling in a still understandable way.
Faith, the main heroine, is absolutely lovely. And I love their parents,
Patrick and Marcy. There were a couple passages in here that I especially
identified with – for example, Patrick (the father) once says “Charity, your
mother and I love you very much…and it’s because we love you that we are so
strict regarding, well, certain things.” (pg 36) I’m pretty sure that’s a
direct quote from my parents, name and all! Faith and I are alike in some ways –
we both bottle a lot of stuff up and don’t confide easily or quickly in hardly
anyone. I love having a heroine I can identify with. All in all, this was a
great book, well-written – I love Julie Lessman! It is certainly passionate,
more-so than much Christian fiction, so keep that in mind if you decide to read
it. Other than that, all I can say is that it was amazing and very good!
