Week 46

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template - creations by Julie *edited
Apple Hill - Gingerscrap Designers
Project 365 - Gingerscrap Designers
tags & journal blocks by Dreamer's Magic Design

Week 45

credits:
template - creations by Julie *edited
Apple Hill - Gingerscrap Designers
Project 365 - Gingerscrap Designers
tags by Un-Lesh-ed-Scraps

Faith of our Fathers Series

I've finished all 4 books in this series. I must say I started out strong loving the Civil War info the glimpse into America's past full of details I never imagined. The first book ended with no sense of conclusion in any way shape or form leading us into the second and third and forth. It is really on BIG LONG story. Not 4 seperate books with their own rise & climax. but there is plenty happening and many stories to follow.

I really enjoyed the first and second books, but the third I was a bit weary of the same ol stuff. Half way through the 4th book the war ends and Lincoln is assasinated. Somehow we still have hundreds of pages left. This is to wrap up the lives of the characters in a perfect little bow. I found this last half almost agonizingly boring. (possibly because I was looking forward to reading the Hunger Games again).

The LDS aspect that has been plesently discreet is now a major part of the plot, not that I am against this but it seems to disrupt the flow of the story. Whole other characters are introduced in this second half that I just don't care about and also feel they are simply padding to get to the end.

I know this now sounds like a bad review, but I assure you the story is pretty exciting and fascinated me with the Civil War facts and stories. I would recomend them to anyone who enjoys historical fiction. But If I ever by chance choose to read them again I'll probably quit after Lincoln's assassination. :)

Week 44

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Apple Hill - Gingerscrap Designers
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Week 43

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Hauntingly Cute by Kathy Winters Design
tags- atomic cupcake
Project 365- Gingerscrap Designers

Dark Angel

Stuart's Wolf, Ghost Smiler, Hash Face, Red Legs, Devil Man. People spoke his name in frightened whispers. Killer, horribly sarred and savagely aloof, it was worth your life to approach him unbidden. Stuart's Wolf was all those things but more importantly, on a quiet summer day in 1896, he was the answer to young girls prayer...

This book is set in Salt Lake 1869. Shortly after the Civil War and the West was still Wild. But as the author points out through the story, perhaps it's civilized communitees that make for the most wild areas of all. The setting is facintating the narrator a 10 yr old daughter of a mormon bishop. But if you're already rolling your eyes thinking this is a sappy LDS novel you are wrong.

Rose is rather irreverent and tends to use words she learned from the hired hands. How could she not be drawn to the dark dangerous sharp shooter that saved her and her sister's lives.

There's a deep message that isn't just hinted at but thrown at us about how good people can be worse than outlaws. (You'll see below from my quotes) It made me think quite a bit about jumping to conclusions and judging others and what it really means to be Christian. But in case you are now thinking it's too deep and a downer, it also is full of humor, after all this is life according to a 10 yr. old girl. I suggest you read and enjoy it!

Quotes:

"Even people like our neighbors can hurt others. Good people don't always do good things. They become frightened or confused and they do harm to others in the name of good."

Colleen Merrell from Dark Angel by Robert Kirby

"Except for shooting folks in the face and cutting off ears, the lanky killer had impeccable manners."

Rose from Dark Angel by Robert Kirby

"God save us all from good people and their best intentions."

Rose from Dark Angel by Robert Kirby