I received a copy of WITH
YOU ALWAYS by Jody Hedlund from Bethany House in exchange for an honest review. It is the first book in the “Orphan Train”
series, and may I just point out that I can’t wait to read book two now.
As a child, I read a
lot of books about the Orphan Train. It
always interested me, but I kind of forgot about it, so to speak, when I didn’t
find any books about it on young adult shelves.
This is a book for adults about the Orphan Train, from a slightly
different perspective. This is about a
young woman who uses the Orphan Train to go out west as a skilled worker. I hadn’t know the New York Children’s Aid
Society had done this.
Other than being a gem
of historical fiction, WITH YOU ALWAYS explores the romance of Elise and
Thornton in a beautiful way. It helps to
bring the west alive for the reader and this is an excellent piece of Christian
literature. I recommend this book in
particular to those who were as obsessed with THE ORPHAN TRAIN ADVENTURES as I
was during junior high. (This book also
explores the trails of New York City during the 1850s and that’s another topic
I loved in middle grade.)
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