Review: On the fence
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2014
I'm on the fence about this book. I rather liked the "True Story" faction of the book. The story is based loosely on the real railroad baron Charles Crocker. She based her character Jacob Ramsey on him (loosely). It was interesting to read about his feat, building a cross country track. The romance was sort of iffy. I liked Mary Rose. She was strong willed, hard headed, but didn't seem to fit the era. I would have felt her more of a 20's type woman with her thought process.Jacob the brash, angry older man was cool at first, but the more I read, the more I disliked him. I felt that their relationship was nothing. I didn't feel a connection between them, more like a school girl crush. The last part of the book, we could have done without. You go from being a railroad tycoon to writing about war in France and it just didn't seem to me that it fit. Sure, you're showing Mary followed her dream, he came, blah blah. It just didn't fit well. There were many aspects of this book I enjoyed.The way Mary got onto the train to find her brother was interesting, suspenseful and kept me reading. What happened after she was caught, again, kept me reading. It's just the small things that irked me and almost ruined the story for me. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. As always, I love people to form their own opinions, but this isn't one I would send out to my readers as a recommendation.