Review of a Pony Express Christmas

Title: A Pony Express Christmas

Author: Rhonda Gibson

 

Chapters: 18 plus epilogue

Pages: 277

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Rating: 5 stars

A Pony Express Christmas is a Christmas novel from love inspired historical that is a marriage of convenience. Jake Bridges is a stock tender at a pony express station.  Leah Hollister is an orphan that has come to Colorado as a mail order bride, who is also bringing Jake’s niece Molly to him. When Leah learns that her groom has died, Jake offers to marry her so that Molly will have someone to look after her while he works.

Jake can offer her a home and friendship but nothing more. But what neither realizes is that Christmas is the time for miracles. Even though it was a fictional novel I am glad that the author included real pony express riders like William Cody who would later become Buffalo Bill Cody. Even before this book I knew Cody was a pony express rider from watching the tv show the Young Riders as a kid. I’ve always loved the Pony express time in history I just wish there was more historical fiction novels about this time period.

Review of The Husband Hunt

Title: The Husband Hunt

Author: Karen Kirst

Series: Smoky Mountain Matches Love inspired Historical

 

Chapters: 26 plus Epilogue

Pages: 283

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Rating: 5 stars

     The Husband Hunt is another book in the Smoky Mountain Matches  series . Sophie Tanner has to get married in order to keep her brother with her and her farm. The only person she could ever see herself marrying  Nathan O’Malley doesn’t want to marry her. Nathan thinks that they are two different.

     Sophie isn’t your typical girl she’s a tomboy who is more at home working on the farm than in fancy dress.  She also has a heart of gold that will do anything for her brother even if it means marrying someone she doesn’t love.

     So far I have enjoyed all the books in the Smoky Mountain Matches series, The Reluctant Outlaw was my favorite with this one being a close second. Like any Love Inspired Historical Romance, The Husband Hunt is a sweet romantic read. 

Review of His Mountain Miss

Title: His Mountain Miss

Author: Karen Kirst

Series: Smoky Mountain matches Love inspired

Pages: 288

Genre:  Christian Historical Romance

Rating: 5 stars

     His Mountain Miss by Karen Kirst is the third book in the Smoky Mountain matches  series.  It is Megan O'Malley’s story. She wants to continue using the house that Lucian Beaumont inherited from his grandfather to continue to allow the children of Gatlinburg to have access to books. Lucian wants to sell the property and head back to New Orleans. To continue to keep the past behind him.

     His Mountain Miss is my favorite of the Smokey Mountain Matches so far. I think it is because Megan is a book worm. Megan has always wanted to marry for love. Her family thinks it is because she reads so many novels and fairy tales. Lucian wants to treat marriage like a business arrangement so no one gets hurt. This is because of his parent’s unhappy marriage.  However God has other plans for both Megan and Lucian.

     The thing that I love about Love Inspired novels all three branches is that even though it’s a romance the novels also include faith and learning to trust God. 

Review of the Preacher's Bride

Title: The Preacher’s Bride

Author: Laurie Kingery

Series: Brides of Simpson Creek book 5 Love Inspired Historical

Pages: 288

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Rating: 4.5 stars

    

     The Preacher’s Bride is the fifth book in the Brides of Simpson Creek and it is the first book that I have read in this series and I enjoyed it.  Gil Chadwick is following in his father’s footsteps to became a preacher. But sometimes he doesn’t feel like he is good enough.  Faith Bennett doesn’t believe that she dersves her name let alone to be a preacher’s wife because she has lost her faith or so she thinks.

     What I enjoyed about this novel was that it showed that God can use anyone no matter what they past as long as they accept Jesus as their savior. 

Review of The Bride Wore Spurs

Title: The Bride Wore Spurs

Author: Janet Dean

Series: Love inspired Historical

 

Chapters: 22

Pages: 279

Genre: Love inspired Historical, Christian Historical romance

Rating: 5 stars

     Hannah Parrish is not your typical woman. She is more at home on the back of a horse than in a kitchen.  When her father wants her to sale the ranch after his death and move back to South Carolina and live with her aunts family. She doesn’t want that. So she proposes to her neighbor Matthew Walker. A marriage that will allow her to continue to live on the ranch that she loves.  

Review of the Gift of Family

Title: The Gift of Family

Author: Linda Ford and Karen Kirst

Series: Love Inspired Historical

 

Pages: 282

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Rating: 5 stars

Title: Merry Christmas, Cowboy

Author: Linda Ford

Chapters: 9 plus epilogue

 Colt Johnson is a half Native American cowboy who has two orphans in his care. Becca is a storekeeper’s daughter who sees past Colt and the children’s skin color to see who they are on the inside.

Becca wants to give them a Christmas to remember. But ends up giving them so much more.  I enjoyed reading a Christmas story that allowed the reader to see past the differences of skin tone and race to see the person within.

Title: Smoky Mountain Christmas

Author: Karen Kirst

Chapters: 11 plus epilogue

     Smoky Mountain Christmas is a Christmas story set in one of my favorite places the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. When Cole Prescott left his wife Rachael he didn’t know that he was also leaving behind a daughter Abby.

     Is Cole’s coming back a Christmas Miracle or will he let Rachael down again. Smoky Mountain Christmas is a Christmas story about second chances. 

Review of Their Frontier Family

Title: Their Frontier Family

Author: Lyn Cote

Series: Wilderness Brides

 

Chapters: 16 plus epilogue

Pages: 279

Genre: Christian Historical Romance, Love Inspired Historical

Rating: 5 stars

     Noah a Quaker who fought for the Union in the Civil War wants to go west and forget what he went through in the war. Sunny is a women with a past who was a better future for her and her daughter.

     I enjoyed reading Their Frontier Family, I was glad to learn that it is the first in the Wilderness Brides series. Their Frontier Family was a story of second chances and God’s forgiveness. I also enjoyed the fact that one of the fictional families in the book was based on a real family that was a fictional family in a book series that I loved as a child. That family is based on the Ingalls family made famous by the Little House books. Their Frontier Family takes place in Pepin Wisconsin. I can’t wait for the next book in the Wilderness Brides series. 

Review of The Soldier's Wife

Title: The Soldier’s Wife

Author: Cheryl Reavis

Series: Love Inspired Historical

 

Chapters: 12 plus epilogue

Pages: 283

Genre: Christian Historical fiction Christian historical romance

Rating: 4 ½ stars

     Jeremiah “Jack” Murphy made a promise to dying Rebel soldier to tell the soldier’s wife what happened to him and to take the letters that he wrote to her. After the war he travels to North Carolina to deliver the letters and the news. Even though he is running from something from his home town.

     Sayer Garth is trying to work her husband’s homestead and look after his two younger sisters. She wonders what happened to her husband till Jeremiah shows up with the news she had been dreading.

     I enjoyed reading The Soldier’s Wife, but it was not my favorite Love inspired Historical. It was however a quick and relaxing read.