To Everything a Season by Lauraine Snelling
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
★: Didn't Like it
★★: It was Ok
★★★: Liked it
★★★★: Really liked it
★★★★★: It was amazing
Suggested Age:14+ Genre:Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction
I really tried to love this book. I did. This book just wasn’t for me. I felt that it dragged on and on and I just couldn’t connect with the characters. I have tried to read this for the last twelve weeks and I’ve just decided that I’m not going to make it through. I felt like the book jumped right into a story without introducing me to the characters. I was completely lost. This says it is the first in a series but I didn’t know anyone. I had no connection to anyone and there also wasn’t a glossary of terms so I had no idea what a Tas was. It wasn’t the only word used but it’s the only one I can recall at this point. I just know I had zero clue of what it was. I’m assuming it’s a family relation but I was—lost.
I’ve loved other books by this author so after I research this series out to figure out if there’s a better starting point—I’ll probably come back to this at some point. The cover is gorgeous enough to make me want to revisit when I’ve worked out my confusion.
"Lauraine Snelling Launches New Red River Valley Series
Trygve Knutson has been promoted from well drilling to heading a construction crew for the fast growing town of Blessing, North Dakota. Though devoted to the land and his family, he sometimes dreams of other horizons. But is he willing to leave Blessing permanently?
Miriam Francini hopes to become an accredited nurse in a large city hospital. She is simply tolerating her assignment at the hospital in rural Blessing because it will give her the experience she needs to accomplish her goal. She can't wait to finish her training and head to New York to begin a nursing career.
Then Miriam meets Trygve Knutson and all her plans are suddenly in a jumble. She quickly realizes she doesn't want to live without him, yet she's a smart, independent woman--she's even a suffragette. She can't let anything get in the way of her own plans, even if she's in love. Or can she?"
Shown in her contemporary romances and women’s fiction, a hallmark of Lauraine’s style is writing about real issues of forgiveness, loss, domestic violence, and cancer within a compelling story. Her work has been translated into Norwegian, Danish, and German, and she has won the Silver Angel Award for An Untamed Land and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart for Song of Laughter.
As a sought after speaker, Lauraine encourages others to find their gifts and live their lives with humor and joy. Her readers clamor for more books more often, and Lauraine would like to comply ... if only her paintbrushes and easel didn’t call quite so loudly.
Lauraine and her husband, Wayne, have two grown sons, and live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a watchdog Basset named Winston. They love to travel, most especially in their forty-foot motor coach, which they affectionately deem “a work in progress”.
When I looked into it it was like the third series in a bigger story
ReplyDeleteYeah, it has to be. I was SO lost and couldn't follow along. I had no connection with the characters.
DeleteWhen I looked into it I found out even though it was the 1st it was also part of a bigger story
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