Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
This series was recommended to me by a friend at work who loaned me her first three books to read. Marty is a young woman on her way out west with her husband Clem to claim and settle on the land there, when her husband meets with a tragic accident that claims his life and leaves Marty alone and bereft with a baby on the way and nothing to her name other than a few personal items from their broken-down covered wagon. Along comes a young man with an offer that she marry him and come to live in his house to care for his motherless daughter, Missie. Marty realizes that she has very few options and accepts his offer in spite of her pain at losing her young husband. The story continues as Marty learns to keep house and cook and care for the little girl. This story reminds me of the Little House books and was a beautiful story of how loss can be overcome and how much people depended on each other in the early days in the prairies. The only thing that I didn't like about the book was tripping over the colloquial speech patterns of the characters - while probably accurate to the times, they slowed down my reading as I tried to make sense of them.


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