I love Janette Oke. I don't know why I stopped reading her books. It couldn't have anything to do with going to college and forgetting libraries exist. Anyway...
I read this book back in high school. I saw it sitting on the church shelf at the church in Texas on my TCW and was annoyed because I couldn't remember what happened at the end. So I read the end. That didn't make any sense so I went back and read the whole book while laying outside during my lunch break. (I now have a pretty decent sunburn on the back of my legs.)
This book is about Angela and her brother Thomas as they struggle to raise their three younger siblings after the deaths of their mother and father. It's not as sad as it could have been, but there is still quite a bit for the reader to relate to emotionally.
Criticism: This isn't so much criticism as a comment. Oke's books are never that hard to predict. I think I've read one out of over twenty where I didn't recognize the person the main character was going to marry as soon as they entered the plot. This is only a comment because I'm pretty sure that it is not the point of her books to be unpredictable. It's just that they are always just the tiniest bit contrived and not so unrealistic. On the other hand, I like her books because when I'm reading them I don't care about those things.
Rating? Good.
Read again? Just did.
You read? Yeah. Or any others of Oke's books. Just watch the doctrine, k?
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