June Wrap Up

June Wrap Up

My TBR started this month at 35. I bought two books and received my OwlCrate box for the month. I read three of my owned book so my total stayed at 35 didn’t go down but didn’t go up either.  My unfinished series started the month at 33.  I read a total of 14 books.  With a total of 3745 pages.  My average rating is 3.3.  I didn’t finish any series this month, and I didn’t read as many books as I did in May, but it was still a good reading month.

1.  Red Wagon by Renanta

2.  Read Hearring by V.M Burns

3.  Rodeo Standoff by Susan Sleeman

4.  Falling for You by Becky Wade (owned book)

5.  Cake and Punishment by Maymee Bell

6.  A Most Noble Heir by Susan Anne Mason

7.  Harry: Life, Loss and Love by Katie Nicholl

8.  Worth the Wait by Karen Witemyer

9.  Love in Three Quarter Time by Rachel McMillan

10.Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch (owned book)

11.My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

12.The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep

13.More than Meets the eye by Karen Witemeyer

14.Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch (owned book)

Review of A Refuge Assured

Title: A Refuge Assured  

Author: Jocelyn Green 

Chapters: 36 Plus Epilogue 

Pages: 413

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction/ Christian Historical Romance 

Rating: 5 stars 

A Refuge Assured is the first book that I have read by Jocelyn Green.  Though it won't be the last book.  Though I love American history some of the events in the book I wasn't familiar with mostly the events dealing with the French Immigrates. The Whiskey Rebellion I knew about, but the French immigrates I didn't, which is sad that it wasn't thought in any of my history classes in school.  But what makes it even worse is that these French immigrates seeking refuge in America is also part of my family's history but I didn't even know it till I started researching my family tree for a library class I was taking. 

Vivienne Rivard has fled Revolutionary France a lace maker by trade who just so happens to be related to Liberty Lawson from the The Lacemaker by Laura Frantz love how those two books are tied together, she has to find a new means to support herself in the United States and the young boy left to her care. She discovers a talent for baking.  Which leads her to find a job as a baker at the Tavern owned by Tara.   It's there that she meets Tara's brother Liam Delaney a militiaman and veteran of the American Revolution.  After the war and saving money by working as a teacher in order to buy his own land.  After the horrors he saw in the war.   Just ad Vivienne wants to forget the horrors she saw during the French Revolution.  She also can't understand why American citizens are celebrating the Revolution because unlike the American Revolution which was mostly bloodless in the sense that it was fought on the battlefield.  Vivienne watched women and children including family members die by the guillotine simply for being lace makers. 

I've loved history since I was a kid, with the Revolutionary war and Colonial America being the favorite time period as well as the state history of my state. Once I got to high school and took three years of high school French which I can still read and somewhat translate but can't speak a lick French history also become a favorite and this book has both.  I am looking forward to reading other books by Jocelyn. 

Reading this week

Reading this week

Finished

When Hope Prevails by Janette Oke

Where Trains Collide by Amber Stokes (review book)

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Thief of Corinth by Tessa Afshar (review book)

Her Texas Family by Jill Lynn

Lord of the Pies by Nell Hampton

Currently reading

Rodeo Standoff by Susan Sleeman

A Most Noble Heir by Susan Anne Mason

Cake and Punishment by Maymee Bell

Non-fiction reading

Getting ready to read

The Innkeeper’s Daughter by Michelle Griep

Falling for You by Becky Wade

Love in Three Quarter Time by Rachel McMillian

When God Calls the Heart: Devotions from Hope Valley by Brian Bird

No Cure for the Dead by Christine Trent

Love and Luck by Jenna Welch Evans

Petticoat Detective by Margaret Brownley

Classics

Audio on the way to work

Reviewing

Murder at the Flamingo by Rachel McMillan

Read Herring Hunt by V.M. Burns

Devotional reading

Did not Finish

Reviews Posted this week