A View Most Glorious review

 Title:  A View Most Glorious

Author: Regina Scott

Series: American Wonders Collection Book 3

Chapters: 31

Pages: 368

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction, Christian Historical Romance  

Rating: 4 stars

Publisher: Revell

 

I'm not going to lie A View Most Glorious by Regina Scott while an enjoyable read it was not my favorite of the series. Though I did enjoy learning about Mt. Rainier before it become a National Park.  As are the books in the series are set at National Parks before they were parks.  And even though this wasn't my favorite of the series I loved Coraline Baxter as a character and heroine. I loved her determination and the fact that she didn't fit the mold that her mother wanted to put her in. It was because of real life women like Cora that I am able to not only vote but climb a mountain if I so chose. Not that my asthma would let me.   Nathan Hardee was a hero that was technically between two worlds, though he fit better in the one he chose than the one he was born into. 

 

A View Most Glorious was a book about not only trusting God but about learning not only who you are, but knowing who your true friends are.  All in all it was a good ending to a great series. 
 

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.

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Yellowstone National Park, September 1886

“What was it about men and Danger? Did they all want to die?”

Nothing Short of Wondrous review

Title:  Nothing Short of Wondrous

 Author:  Regina Scott

Ch: 29

Pg:  323

Series: American Wonders Collection book 2

Genre:  Christian Historical Fiction

Rating: 4 stars

Publisher: Revell

     Nothing Short of Wondrous by Regina Scott the second book in the American Wonders collection. A series about the US National parks before they were National parks. Nothing Short of Wondrous takes us to Yellowstone as the US Cavalry takes control of the park.

    Lieutenant William Prescott enlists hotel owner Kate Tremaine to show him the park he’s supposed to help protect. She agrees for help around the hotel. Neither expects anything to come of it. But when threats and strange things start happening to the hotel Will vows to protect Kate and her son Danny on top of his US Army duties.

I enjoyed seeing Yellowstone before it was Yellowstone in these pages especially after having read Ever Faithful by Karen Barnett a book that showed Yellowstone as Yellowstone National Park in the 1930s it was nice to see where when and how the park got its start.

I loved the balance between the history of the park and romance between Kate and Will that was more of a slow burn but Danny was still my favorite character and even though it enjoyed this one my favorite of the series is still the first one. However I do look forward to the next book in the series.

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. 

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.