Catherine’s Pursuit

Author: Lena Nelson Dooley

Genre: Life, adventure

Series: McKenna’s Daughters

Number in series: 3^rd

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8.5

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 286

Time period: 1800s

Publisher and price: Realms, $14.99

My overall opinion: What a great book! As Lisa Wingate says on the front cover, it is indeed a “heartwarming tale.” The story is fully satisfying (once you reach the end) and provides a complete conclusion for the McKenna’s Daughters series. While I still haven’t had the chance to read book 2, Mary’s Blessing, I did read and greatly enjoy book 1, Maggie’s Journey – incidentally, I think #1 had my favorite cover…but this one is a close second. They’re all so neat! Anyway, back to Catherine…this book isn’t a stand-alone, but even though I’ve missed book 2, I didn’t have trouble following (though there were a few parts that weren’t clear because I hadn’t read it yet). Moral of the story – read both of the first ones before this one if at all possible. There are some series where you would be totally lost if all you read was book 3, but that’s not quite true here. Catherine was a lovely girl and made for a gutsy heroine. I loved the historical detail that seemed to be worked into each scene throughout the book, especially the travel scenes. This is a fascinating story and one I think you’ll enjoy!

**The author supplied me with this book in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to post a positive review, nor was I paid in any way other than the book.**

Maggie's Journey

 

Author: Lena Nelson Dooley

Genre: Life, romance

Series: McKenna’s Daughters

Number in series: 1st

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 295

Time period: 1800’s (specifically 1885)

My overall opinion: Awesome! Yes, really. I greatly enjoyed this book. It was very interesting to learn about the dress-making side of things…the travel of trains of the time…and besides all of that, the storyline was riveting. I can’t wait to read the rest of the books in the series. Essentially – it’s triplets, who are separated at birth (hence the title of the series: McKenna’s Daughters). So far as I can tell, none are told that they are adopted, or that they have two sisters who are their triplets. This particular story only followed one child... but I’m sure that each book coming in the series will follow a different girl. The book was well-written, and the story was amazing. And I love the cover. :)

**The author sent me a copy of this book in return for my honest review. All opinions are my own, and were not required to be positive.**