Hannah G

What I loved most about Persuasion is that the heroine is on up in years. She's gotten past the age when most women marry, yet she doesn't sit around and groan about being a spinster. She's a pleasant, engaging lady and has gone about making her life worthwhile by being a friend to others.

And then, of course, I liked the romance. :)

4.5 stars
Delightful fast-paced story that kept me flipping pages easily. But now I have to wait for the rest of the story? Ugh! I want to know the rest now!

I've always had a bit of a morbid fascination for how easy it once was to shove an inconvenient relative into an insane asylum and basically give them a prison without any trial. This is an epic escape story as Eugenia and her daughter flee along the Oregon trail to the homestead a former servant has located for them.

The romance is understated, which I quite liked, with the thrill of the run being the main driver of the story. It's a well balanced narrative of some of the things encountered along the trail in its later days after the rail route went in, some of which are sad, but most of which are interesting/informative.

Quite the twist at the end with Yvette

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