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🤗🤓New author, new trilogy! I loved the fact that this took place in Chicago during the building of The World Fair (1891-1893)💖

As I read, I seesawed between, “I really like this!” and, “I want a lot more than this is giving me.” Lucy‘s compassion and refusal to judge others were a big draw, and I really responded to Charlotte‘s storyline. Overall, though, the plot felt unbalanced, the time jumps often cut me out of scenes that‘d been set up as important, and most of the characters were too opaque for me to feel like I fully inhabited their world.

Bedtime reading with my little buddy. The book‘s still pretty firmly in the Not Bad camp; not super-duper gripping, but a nice story overall. I appreciate how the Christian elements are rooted in Lucy‘s compassion and dedication to service, too. It‘s a welcome change from the last Christian fiction I read, which was very much of the, “Let‘s say tons of hateful things about non-Christians and presuppose the reader‘s agreement” variety. No thanks.

I‘m trying another historical romance from my digital freebies stash. This one isn‘t bad so far, but I find I‘m way more interested in Charlotte, the maid who needs to conceal her newborn baby, than I am in the title character.

I feel it‘s past time we retired the whole, “She let out a breath she didn‘t know she was holding” thing, but this take on it made me giggle (/groan).

Sunday sauce cooking on the stove, football on the TV, little one practicing his train whistle, and this book. Perfect winter Sunday. 💛