Where the Road Bends // Book Review

 

About the Book:

As Norah King surveys her family land in Iowa in 1880, she is acutely aware that it is all she has left, and she will do everything in her power to save it--even if that means marrying a man she hardly knows. Days before her wedding, Norah discovers an injured man on her property. Her sense of duty compels her to take him in and nurse him back to health. Little does she realize just how much this act of kindness will complicate her life and threaten the future she's planned.

Norah's care does more than aid Quincy Barnes's recovery--it awakens his heart to possibilities. Penniless and homeless, he knows the most honorable thing he can do is head on down the road and leave Norah to marry her intended. But walking away from the first person to believe in him proves much harder than he imagined.

Rachel Fordham invites you to experience the strength and beauty of love forged in the crucible of hardship in this heartwarming story.

My Review:

Where the Road Bends is the first book that I have read by Rachel Fordham. I would like to give more of her books a try in the near future.

This story was pretty enjoyable. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting, although I’m not too sure what it was that I was expecting. The characters were nice and the story moved at a nice pace. I surprised myself with how fast I read it. 

I felt like some aspects of the story seemed rushed but overall it was a pretty good book that kept my interest. 

**Thank you to Revell for the book in exchange for my honest review

The Sweet Life // Book Review

About the Book:

Dawn Dixon can hardly believe she's on a groomless honeymoon on beautiful Cape Cod . . . with her mother. Sure, Marnie Dixon is good company, but Dawn was supposed to be here with Kevin, the love of her life (or so she thought).

Marnie Dixon needs some time away from the absolute realness of life as much as her jilted daughter does, and she's not about to let her only child suffer alone--even if Marnie herself had been doing precisely that for the past month.

Given the circumstances, maybe it was inevitable that Marnie would do something as rash as buy a run-down ice-cream shop in the town's tightly regulated historic district. After all, everything's better with ice cream.

Her exasperated daughter knows that she's the one who will have to clean up this mess. Even when her mother's impulsive real estate purchase brings Kevin back into her life, Dawn doesn't get her hopes up. Everyone knows that broken romances stay broken . . . don't they?

Welcome to a summer of sweet surprises on Cape Cod--a place where dreams just might come true.

My Review:

I think the cover of The Sweet Life is so fun! 

The story wasn’t my favorite but not my least favorite either. I wasn’t a huge fan of the characters and just had a hard time connecting with them. 

The setting of a coastal town was great. It was fun reading about the characters getting their new creamery up and running. 

I did really love how that at the beginning of each chapter there was a quote about ice cream!

Overall it was a good book, just not a favorite.

**Thank you to Revell for the book in exchange for my honest review