REVIEW: "Love's Long Journey" by Janette Oke

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About the Book:

✦ Title: Love's Long Journey

✦ Author: Janette Oke


✦ Genre: Christian historical fiction


✦ Series: Book #3 in the Love Comes Softly series {see review for book #1 here and review for book #2 here!}


✦ Recommend for: ages 14+

My Personal Rating

⭐⭐⭐⭐

📖 Synopsis

Newlyweds Missie and Willie share a dream. However, it means that Missie must leave her parents, family and friends behind to join a wagon train and claim land in the West with her new husband. Overcoming incredible hardships on the journey, she grows into a mature wife and mother. Her faith in God and love for her husband give Missie the strength to make a new life and home in an unknown territory.

💭 My thoughts

This is one of my favorite books in this series! I really enjoy the Little House on the Prairie feel, the lovely, strong faith content, Missie's growth and maturing, and just the overall sweetness of the story.

I randomly noticed that in the previous book, Missie is said to have refined her speech after going to school and had begun speaking very properly, but in this book she's back to talking in the plain frontier speech like everyone else 😂 Also, there was a bit of head jumping which I don't care for, but I've recently discovered that this writing style is called omniscient narration, so while I don't always love it, it makes more sense. It did strike me in this read through that there's quite a bit of telling/description in these books rather than dialogue, but it doesn't bother me because of how short they are.

As a Spanish student (and fanatic), I loved the parts about Missie learning Spanish in order to speak to her neighbor. 🤭 One final thing that I'll mention is that this series stands out to me because of the uniqueness of featuring a couple who is already married. In that way, the plot is not them falling in love, but rather growing in their relationship as they grow closer to God, and I just love that.

Altogether- sweet, wholesome, clean, heartwarming. Looking forward to reading on!!

⚠️ Content

Deaths (one by drowning, one in childbirth); labor & birth (barely detailed); a chicken dies (also no details); a mention of painkillers and using them improperly; a creep (one of Willie's ranch workers) corners Missie in her house and makes her uncomfortable, but is stopped before anything happens; no language beyond blasted and what in heaven's name.

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Bookishly yours, 


Lottie M

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