A Distance Too Grand book Review

Title:  A Distance TOO Grand 

Author:  Regina Scott 

Series: American Wonders Collection book 1 

Chapters: 30

Pages: 384

Genre: Christian Historical fiction 

Rating: 5 stars 

Publisher: Revell 

I'm not going to lie the first thing that drew me to the book was the cover. A young woman standing on a cliff with what looks almost like the Grand Canyon in the background with a camera, and I was hooked even more when I learned that it was about a female photographer in the 1870s when that wasn't a field really opened to women. I've always been a huge fan of photography I guess I have my mom to think for that.  She was the one who introduced to me my favorite photographer, Dorothea Lange who was most known for her dust bowl era photographs. 

So I was excited to read a story about a fictional female photographer 60 years before.  Meg Pero is determined to take her father's place on the survey crew as the photographer even if Captain Ben Coleridge doesn't want her there.   These two have a bit of a history together when he was a cadet at West Point and her father was the school's photographer until something happened that caused the two to be separated.  But neither knowing why.  Meg wants to prove that she can make it as a photographer in a male-dominated field and follow in his footsteps.  Ben wants to be the solider that his father wanted him to be. 

Regina Scott is an author that I've never read before so I didn't know anything about her books or her writing but with this being historical fiction one of my favorite genre's I had high hopes and I was not disappointed.  I was hooked from the first chapter.  I look forward to reading the next book in this series and well as picking up other works by this author.  For readers who enjoyed Karen Barnett's Vintage National Parks series, I think they will enjoy this book and future series about the areas of the country before they were national parks as the next book in the series will take place in the United States oldest National park. 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher a part of a blog tour. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone. 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.