Deeply Devoted

I started with Maggie Brendan in her first novel No Place for a Lady and felt she did well and could not wait to find more. She takes tragedy and turns it into something of love. Then the second one in that Hearts of the West Series with The Jewel of His Heart was so visual and even though I was not in love with the characters personalities I enjoyed the story. Lastly for that series was A Love of Her Own that did not capture me, but you can go back to read that review. I am delighted to say that Maggie Brendan has brought me back in with the beginning of this Blue Willow Brides Series and I am excited to read more.

Catharine and Peter are not quite characters that I love, because I do not really understand why they felt that secrets were so important, but then I am a person that feels that honesty is so important and so I think I'm just on different wavy lengths from them. So many things happen from the slightest misunderstandings and it's amazing how things can mushroom! This is an interesting take on a mail order bride story and I find it very neat. I have to admit that I always assumed that if love came at all in these scenarios it was after time. I never really thought about the love already having formed through letters. It's is very neat to me as well because through letters is how I met and got to know my husband (emails really). Different era and technology, but getting to know someone in many ways first of all does help a friendship, yet there are blanks to fill in later.

Thanks to Revell Books for providing a copy for review.

“Available September 2011 at your favorite bookseller from Revell,
a division of Baker Publishing Group.”

Originally posted: http://creativemadnessmama.com/blog/2011/10/01/deeply-devoted-by-maggie-brendan/