Review: Wonderful Love Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2014
I enjoy books written around actual historical events and times. This is one of those books. It is the story of Sarah Harding, who lost her fiance to the Civil War and was facing life as a spinster, considered too old for marriage in the accepted tradition of the times and Jedadiah Barnette, a young man at a crossroads between following his father and becoming a farmer versus the lure of the gold rush days in the late 1800's.Jedadiah makes his choice and heads West and finds that most of the good claims had already been staked and he has to change his plans after working in the gold fields for a year. He becomes a rancher and a farmer after all.Sarah, on the other hand, is almost forced to choose to become a mail order bride because of family pressure to consider unsuitable matches or be a spinster all of her life.This is their story and I have to say that I found myself smiling through most of it. If you enjoy a story about honest hard work, family values and the results thereof, you will not be disappointed with this one. Just so you know, there are a few steamy love scenes as well.