This is the prequel to Roses, and you can see that blog here.
Jessica Wyndham just returned from her boarding school back to her house in South Carolina. Her parents are thrilled to see their daughter, until they learn she is an activist. They are in South Carolina, so this proves to be a problem. Her brother is part of the underground railroad watch, and the situation is only growing worse for her. It is the final straw when she is caught by her brother helping with the underground railroad, and this results in one of the most difficult conflicts of her life.
Silas Toliver is engaged, has a son, and is happy. Except for that his wagon train is leaving soon, and he can't get the promised funding from Carson Wyndham, Jessica's father. If he can't fix his problem soon, he might lose his wagon train and have to abandon his lifelong dream. When he is offered a life changing deal.
One day, Carson approaches Silas and offers him the chance to receive all of the necessary trip funding, if he will marry Jessica, and abandon his Fiance. If he does not do this, Jessica will be sent to a strict convent, never to see her family again.
What will they decide? Is losing the love of his life worth it for Silas?
What will they decide? Is losing the love of his life worth it for Silas?
So far, this book has been really good, even though it is a 600 page southern romance, in the style of Gone With the Wind. It is filled with romance, as it is based on a romantic scandal, but this is not overpowering, as Jessica is a strong female character. Every character is really deep, and you feel like you know everyone. The author does a good job of making sure you always know what is going on, even though it is confusing at some points. As far as being a prequel, I didn't read them in order, and so far they seem like they could be stand alone books, which I like. I also like that you have to think about the characters from the two books relationships to each other, as it is not obvious.
There are mature topics such as romance, scandal, a bit of cussing, and life on the wagon train. Overall, I would say it isn't severe, but it is definitely mature.
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| Big Bertha |
I would have to say my favorite super hero, while I don't know anything about superheroes, would probably be: (after a quick Google search): The Red Bee (yes, he was a thing), he had a bee in his belt buckle that he would have fight for him. seriously. Actually, scratch that, I would have to say Big Bertha (yet again, she was actually a thing) Her power was she was able to increase or decrease her body mass as she pleased, which she could jump off buildings because she was so bouncy. Yes I Google searched cool uncommon super heroes and followed one of he first links to find these... things. These are not my favorites, they are just weird ones that I find amusing.
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I'm not quite sure when and how you got hooked on Southern romances, but okay. This seems like an interesting book. However, let me say that those superheroes are very strange. The illustration of the first is... interesting, and the second's bee should die after a single sting. These are almost as strange as Arm-fall-off man, Matter eater lad, and Dogwelder. Apparently those things exist (ask Sloan) and are self-explanatory. Nice slice! Er, nice review!
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OH GOOD GOD I was rereading this (wondering if you'd posted the last time around) and looked at the weird superhero link and I just realized-- that's Deadpool in the background of the Big Bertha thing, either Deadpool or someone who looks a lot like him, but I think it's Deadpool because of the yellow speech. That is... terrifying.
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