Casey reviewed on 8/27/2012 + 154 more book reviews

I love novels that so completely fill my heart, overflowing story, characters and the romance of lovelove of faith in Christ and the romantic love that promises more than just a happy ending for characters Ive fallen in love with.

Whats the first word we think of when we want to describe a book weve adored? Love. It seems too simple, too cliché a description for when I think of Eden and Silas upon the page.

There is a rhythm, a cadence to their story, the words sweeping me into eighteenth century America. When I started reading their story, I thought the beginning a bit slow, but read much further than one hundred pages and youll find two well-crafted characters rise from the ashes of their circumstances. Circumstances that made me want to leap through the pages and fight for them together.

The novel takes a heart rending turn almost three quarters of the way through the story and I ached for the time lost in the romance between these two characters. There is a passion to their story, not romantically, but in their faith, in how they live life.

Eden and Silas are larger than life, filling the pages, my mind with glorious word-painted images and my heart with the purity of their romance. My only wish? The novel hadnt ended with their beginning. But I cant wait to see them together again in book two of the Ballantyne Legacy.

This review is my honest opinion. Thanks to the publishers for my copy to review.

**Available September 2012 from Revell, a division of Baker Publishers**

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