Hearts Made Whole ~ Book Review

It's 1865 and Windmill Point, Michigan is the home of Caroline Taylor. She tends the lighthouse after her fathers death. But women aren't allowed to have such roles so it only a matter of tome before the high-strung lighthouse inspector appoints a man to fill her role.


But the problem is Caroline is a excellent keeper; Ryan Chambers is not. A veteran of the Civil War, Ryan is haunted by what he and his men did in battle and outside of it as well. On pain medicine and now a heavy drinker, he is unable to perform his duties. Thank God for Caroline. She is becoming much more then the feisty lighthouse keeps who was supposed to be gone by the time Ryan arrived. He also didn't except this attraction and neither did Caroline....

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Ah! I loved this book. It's written from my home state of Michigan and it was so cool read about real lighthouses that might be able to visit someday. I feel in love with Ryan and Caroline along with Esther and the twins. I never realized how hard it was for ladies in the late nineteenth century.


I thought that Ryan and Caroline's relationship did move pretty fast, though. Or maybe it was just that so much time past so quickly that it just seemed fast. Either way, I did feel like the elements, along with another part, make his book for readers 15+.


I did love this book though and will be passing it around to my family and friends to read as well! Four stars Jody Hedlund! Will be reading more from you!


I was given this book from the Book Club Network for my honest review.

After a Fashion and In Good Company ~ TWO book reviews!

      

  

After a Fashion is the first in a series about three young lady's and the men who win their hearts.

Harriet Peabody has big dreams of running a refashioned gown store for the working class women of New York. Unfortunately, a problem at the hat shop she works results in her getting fired.   

Oliver Addleshaw is close to sealing a big business deal. When he inadvertently gets a young lady fired, he ends up in a deal with the one and only Miss. Harriet Peabody. And a strange thing follows. 

Even though she loves fashion, Harriet can't shake the feeling that she doesn't fit into Oliver's fashion filled world. When a startling fact about Harriet's past, will it destroy the fragile facade she and Oliver have erected. 

The partnership is just for a short while, but maybe the feelings will last forever 

In Good Company is the second book about love in the highly fashionably world in which love is usually an after thought. 

Millie Longfellow is determined to be the best nanny New York social class has ever seen! She loves children and they are naturally drawn to her. But with her unfortunate streak for getting into scraps, she has been fired more times then she can count.

Edward Mulberry is determined to find a nanny to stay with his charges. The three children have the uncanny ability to scare every nanny the agency send him. He has met Miss. Longfellow, but with a tale of her almost drowning a charge of hers, he doesn't think she is the nanny for his children.

But with the employment agency is feed up with both Edward and Millie. They give them one more chance ... with each other.

Will Edward and Millie discover that they are the perfect match for each other? Despite the fact that they are different classes?

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Okay ... I love these books! Jen Turano is awesome writer and she made me laugh one minute and cry the next.

First of ... After a Fashion. Harriet's story had me riveted. And when the end came ... all I can say is I am Lucetta and my friend Isabella is Millie. We both love to write, but she is the one I picture to carry around a dictionary. And I love to do drama, so Lucetta is me. We would be the ones to tell our friend's boyfriend how to propose.

I love Abigail and how she is the matchmaker of the group. I like Reverend Gilmore and how he is the person who helped all three girls.

Okay ... In Good Company. What can I say? Edward and Millie made me laugh so hard in After a Fashion, that when I found out they'd have their own story, I literally screamed and scared my mom who was sitting in the living room! I loved how they went at it in Harriet's story and this story continued right where the last one left off.

Harriet and Oliver are mentioned several times in this story, but I loved how Millie came off the page in a whole new way. She gets in more scrapes and messes up the uses of words expensively, (or is the exponentially,) in this book that you will be rolling on the floor with uncontrollable laughter.  

I fell in love with Edward's little charges, having five siblings of my own. I ached for them as their past came out through the whole story.

So over all, each story won its five stars stand alone. Together ... they get twenty! I am so excited for Lucetta's story and am counting the days until it is released.

I was given these books for my honest review by the Book Club Network and I have given it. All opinions I have give are my own.