Review: This is a disappointment after reading "Liberty Belle"
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
I've read a lot of "inspirational fiction" through the years, and moving west is always a popular setting - I'd enjoyed the author's previous work, and was hopeful that she could produce another quality story.  While "Golden Dreams" isn't terrible, the characters seem shallow, their development wasn't well plotted out, and the ultimate resolution somewhat rushed and frankly not completely believable.Both main characters have pasts, but are unwilling to actually talk to one another about them (and there  are way too many "waffling" internal dialogues).  Rev has this "calling" to be a preacher, but his personal relationship with Christ is virtually nonexistent.  Why does he feel this calling? And why doesn't he discuss his faith with Zeke, someone that he recognizes as being a more mature Christian?  Katy is given something, but doesn't want to tell anyone about it.  Meanwhile, her pseudo-father Zeke is initially suspicious of Rev and his possible link to the man who'd ridden into Second Chance, but apparently Zeke completely forgets about that and never considers that possibility when he notices odd activity from others in the wagon train.  When Katy is threatened, her silence made no sense, either - if she had simply shared the truth with 2 or 3 people, all would have been fine.The only reason I'm not giving this two stars is that the quality of the writing itself is decent, but I just wish that it told a better story...