Tome Thursday: When Hope Springs New

 

Hello everyone!

 

It's a one last time kind of thing for the Canadian north, as we take a look at the fourth book in Janette Oke's saga this week.

 

Now granted, there ARE two more, but as I said in a previous blog post, I won't be reviewing them for this blog because I never enjoyed them all that much in the first place since the characters didn't grab me quite so well as Elizabeth and Wynn.

 

Jack and Elizabeth filled that spot on the television show, but even that's changed somewhat now.

 

But I digress!

 

We've been trudging through the wilderness for the past few books, so it's really high time to find out just how Elizabeth's story concludes.

 

Does the fashionable teacher from Toronto manage to completely overcome her own prejudices and become the woman Wynn could see was a possibility when he fell in love with her? And do they find happiness in the north?

 

All that, and more, will be answered in When Hope Springs New.

 

Tome Thursday: When Breaks the Dawn

 

Hello everyone!

 

And here we are, continuing with the Canadian West saga, returning to the wild North with Elizabeth and Wynn Delaney.

 

We're actually halfway through now, since I've already said I won't be taking a look at the last two books in the series.

 

And boy, does the action pick up in this one!

 

To be clear, none of it is ACTUAL action - this is not an action book, it's a Christian one, historic fiction, and romance - but there is definitely a lot going on at the same time, not to mention a lot of challenges for our heroes to face.

 

What I've always enjoyed about these specific books was the fact that they showed a married couple going through trials and tribulations, and coming out stronger on the other side.

 

... it also helps that I've always seen Stephen Amell as Wynn, after the movie he starred in.

 

So without further ado, let's have a look at When Breaks the Dawn, shall we?

 

Tome Thursday: When Comes the Spring

 

Hello everyone!

 

I return with another Canadian West novel review because I've just been going through them recently one more time (I blame Hallmark entirely).

 

I'll hopefully be able to get all four of the first books up sooner rather than later. I know there are six, there were two other books added to the series which cover a time I think twenty years after the originals are set, but I was never a big fan of those and prefer the main group which focuses on Elizabeth and Wynn.

 

After all, at its core and as an underlying message, these books are about a schoolteacher and a Mountie.

 

It's what made me fall in love with them in the first place!

 

I will say, though, that reading them again certainly does bring different things in perspective now that I'm a bit older ... and I wanted to smack the main character every once in a while.

 

Maybe I'm just too hasty though, you never know.

 

In any event, let's stop my babbling and have a look at exactly what I'm talking about.

 

When Comes the Spring is up next.

 

Tome Thursday: When Calls the Heart

 

Hello everyone!

 

In response to this last Sunday's season finale of the Hallmark channel hit series, When Calls the Heart (which I have reviewed frequently enough on this blog, actually, and the current ending of which I'm not entirely happy with), I decided I had to go back and give the original book another re-read, as I hadn't done it in a while.

 

For those of you who don't know, this is a series of Christian books about a schoolteacher in the Canadian West around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, who meets and falls in love with a member of the Royal North West Mounted Police.

 

That was its title at the time, though nowadays they are called Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

 

I first found the books because I was looking for the author's original series, Love Comes Softly, but ended up getting the others instead, because, Canada.

 

And since for some reason Hallmark has decided to deviate so strongly away from the original premise, it felt really good to go back in and remind myself why I fell in love with the story in the first place.

 

After all, a teacher and a Mountie on the frontier sounds like an adventure, doesn't it?

 

When Calls the Heart has that and a whole lot more.

 

Tome Thursday: Janette Oke

Hey everyone!

It's Tome Thursday again, and that means talking about some more books that I've read. For some reason, these first two blogs were/are actually about a book series, but I think I'll be moving away from it next week and just do one book per blog. For this week, however, I'm sticking to the series bit, and I'm going to talk about Janette Oke's 'Canadian West'.

Janette Oke is a Canadian author and I first heard about her through the movie 'Love Comes Sotfly' (starring Katherine Heigl and Dale Midkiff), but that's an entirely different series which did, however, launch me into her world. But after doing some research on the matter, I found another one about a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a school teacher at a time when pioneers were still establishing communities and outposts through the Canadian wilderness.

Stephen Amell and Maggie Grace, When Calls the Heart