Forevermore
By: Cathy Marie Hake
Genre: Historical Romance
This story is about Hope. Hope is a young lady who travels from farm to
farm looking for people that the Lord wants her to help. She seems to be wise beyond her years and
relies firmly on the Lord’s leading. They only things she owns are her donkey (who wears a hat) and a Sunday dress.
She ends up at the farm of a
German widower (there are many unexplained German words in this book). He has a
sister who is pregnant and hiding from an abusive husband; a young child who is
afraid of the dark after falling down a well; and a farm hand who is in love
with the sister. Hope is sure that God wants
her to save this family.
Hope loves to use clichés and
Bible verses while working around the farm.
The problem is that she often twists them. However, her way of twisting them usually
makes more sense. Hope is also
illiterate and doesn’t seem to mind that she is twisting them. At some point the author mentions that Hope
is only 24 years old but with all her cliché quoting and odd habits I kept
thinking of her as a granny type character. I never really connected with the character.
She encounters this family at
the harvest time. Hope steps in to help
this German clan fix up meals to serve their neighbors and day laborers as they
bring in the harvest. Jacob, the German widower is worried that all this work will not be good for his pregnant sister. Hope seems to be
the equivalent of a 21st century superwoman. She can cook, clean, dispense wisdom, and
take care of laundry chores all on very little sleep. She spends most evenings awake talking to
God. There is never a complaint from
this characters lips. I honestly did not
find her to be a believable character at all.
Now, you can’t have a good
Christian historical romance without a widower who is unwilling to give up his
first love. Jacob is kind and thoughtful
to all those around him and he soon finds himself smitten with Hope. The problem is he loves his now deceased wife
too much through three-fourths of the story and then one day in the barn
decides he loves Hope.
This was a quick read and even a
little funny in spots. However, I would not classify this as a book that I
couldn’t put down. However, if you are a
lover of this type of story you would probably really enjoy it!
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