Review: 3.75 stars, definitely a good western romance, i will read more by GS.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2013
It took a while for me to get into this story. There was a lot of descriptive facts possibly related to the previous stories, that I found distracting. However the moment Naomi entered the story, things picked up and i liked the story from then on.  There were some things I found odd about the story, such as a school for girls out in some lonely area with only an old crippled man as protector. Another part that was really odd was that although Naomi started her life as a tomboyish sort of child, then was raised on a farm by her neighbours, she suddenly was able to overcome this and become a teacher of deportment and manners. I did not understand this at all, someone had to have helped her but it was just left as an empty blank part for perhaps 10 years of her life.  I liked the character of Charlie though, he was a very manly man and once he fell in love that was it as far as he was concerned. There was no exchange of I love you's in this book, but the emotion between the two of them was clear and touching. So, for a book that did not seem to be carefully written, turning a rich historical story into a passable one, i liked this book because of the characters and the love they had for each other.