Review: As good or better than the first!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
This second book in the Homespun series did not disappoint! It is a little pricey for such a short story but I just loved the first one so much and knew I would love the second one as well. I love that this book and the first one have been so historically accurate and free from anything graphic, gory, indecent, offensive and free from any cussing. Everything was so respectful. I liked how they did the childbirth thing. Very respectful and nothing sexually graphic. True to the time period they had the husband wait in the barn and Millie had her privacy with only her midwife to help her and make sure she had what she needed and nobody else allowed in the room at all. Of course, I have to roll my eyes at the stereotypical scene portrayed in movies about labor starting when a woman's "water" breaks. Oh please. LOL. But I love that everything was true to the time period and they didn't ever go into detail about labor or sex or anything at all. Very proper and respectful. Most authors want to write in modern day sensibilities regarding male-female relationships and portray a husband as so much better than other men of his time because he treats his wife "equal" and he's right there holding her hand through labor (that shows he cares!). But the truth is, as Taylor Caldwell said in 1970,  what woman in her right mind would want equality with men??? And if a man loves his wife he would step back while she's in labor and give her her privacy so she can relax and focus and block out the entire world to where it's just her and her baby. I just can't stress enough how much I love that this author has kept the book true to the time period and didn't just write in a whole bunch of PC crap to appease modern day sensibilities. Us traditional girls need more books with true old fashioned men and women for main characters but it seems the only way we can get that today is to wade through stacks of porn and weird fetishes like BDSM (and even then it's far from traditional usually). The only alpha males to be found are today are in kinky sex stories. I just like a book true to the time period where men were men and women were women that's why I loved this book and the first one so much.If you judge by the reviews of the first book you would think George was a monster but he's not. All the men in these books loved their wives and respected them and the women never complained about their place in life, not once. Millie's friend Charlotte comes into the story more in this one to court James and she must make her decision whether she will marry him and stay or not. She has to face her own uncertainties and make a decision. She is uncertain about whether she can handle being a farmer's wife and facing hardships that come along with it. She must ask God to guide her in her decision...Another thing I loved about this book is that it still focuses just as much on the lives of Millie and George and their kids as much as it did in the first book. I hate how some series just dump the first characters off and focus on the new characters and maybe bring the old characters back in the book once for a brief period. I like it when stories continue and you get to know more about the characters' lives. So it was just kind of nice that the original story kept going in this one. It focused on Millie and George and on Charlotte in this one.