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Finding Rose (2010)

by Stephanie Humphreys(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1935217771 (ISBN13: 9781935217770)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Walnut Springs Press

review 1: Loved this story. It had great lessons of what love is and how it happens. How change is inevitable, but home can be anywhere as long as you are with family. I really liked the endearments used by father to daughter ("my rose") and then how mile's uses them when he starts to have feelings for Rose too. During this time period girls future options were marriage or spinsterhood and little had the education means for a career. Rose Sterling was turning 21 and wasn't at all excited about the prospect of moving from her home in utah to start over in Canada. Her father received a request from the prophet to help settle in Canada and help with the building of the canal there with the saints. He was making preparations to go when his health failed and he dies. Before his death Ros... moree thinks her only option is to find a husband to allow her to stay in Utah. She finds a candidate in Karl, the son of the town drunk, but whose mother is a member of the Church. She thinks that she can change Karl for the better after marriage, but finds that her intentions weren't all honorable and that she doesn't love Karl. When her father dies, her brother goes to Canada to prepare the way and her sister and mother live with relatives until the spring when they will head to canada. Rose is send to help with relatives that she's never met in Montana. Her only comfort is, Mile, her brother's friend and doctor who has just finished school and headed home to start his own practice. She originally doesn't take a liking to Miles quiet, somber personality, but after getting to know him she finds that he is exactly who she loves. She has many suitors, including Mile's brother, Zach that prevent Miles from expressing his desire to court her himself. They also have the random attacks on people in the town of Spring Creek that highten the danger and cause suspense. They are both kidnapped even. Through it all Mile's tries to hold his growing feelings in, but after he realizes that Rose doesn't plan on accepting his brother's proposal, he takes his turn and all ends well.
review 2: I kept waiting and hoping to read a few pages of dialogue. And it didn't' happen. This book kept me up until 2 am, simply because I am always hopeful. And I kept thinking that i would get to a part in the book where I felt that the Doc did love Rose and she him. And they would have a conversation, that actually was real, and not interrupted, or something. It had the feel of the real early days of the LDS saints and wild west combined, without the romantic angst I was thinking would come to life. Without any angst, actually. Other than the several times someone was sick, dying, freezing, shot, or delivering a baby.I ended up feeling frustrated and didn't feel the ending was very fulfilling for myself.It pushed me to staying awake until 3 am, thinking, "If I was gonna write a book, it would have to have...." less

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