While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up.
No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that. And all at once the doors that had seemed firmly shut begin to open, just a crack.
With much trepidation, Mira steps out in faith into a life she never imagined, in a place filled with its own special challenges, to serve a people who will end up becoming the family she always dreamed of.
My Review:
I unfortunately did not like The Song of Sourwood Mountain as much as I had hoped to. I could not stand Gordon at all in the beginning. He grew on me a bit but I still wasn’t a fan of him by the end of the book. I felt like Mira was pressured into stuff, but eventually I was able to enjoy her story more. Pretty much everything that happened or what people felt they should do was “the Lord’s prompting”. God most definitely can prompt us to do stuff but this phrase was over used in my opinion.
I did enjoy the setting of the Kentucky mountains and seeing Mira settle into a new place. Ada June was a cute kid and it was nice seeing her point of view throughout the book as well.
**Thank you Revell for the book in exchange for my honest review
