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Genre: Historical Romance
My rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Five out of five hearts= excellent!
About:
Willa Duvall's passion is helping others, which she does every day as a nurse. Her dream? To be a doctor and revolutionize the medical profession. Though she's been proposed to several times, 1800's England doesn't have many men who want a wife with a career, and so she assumes she will live to be the spinster nurse who had adventures and changed the world.
Upon discovering an old love letter, Willa is determined to find out the identity of the writer and give the letter to its intended recipient, which leads her to become a nurse to the notoriously cantankerous Golda Gresham. However, things are seldom as they seem, and Willa has a lot to learn about truth, honesty, love- and herself.
My Review:
Words have a big impact on how we live our lives. They either give confidence and love, or discouragement and uncertainty, and this is a big theme in Joanna Davidson Politano's latest novel.
There's no other voice in the Christian fiction world like Joanna Davidson Politano. Her tone is mysterious and leaves you hanging, is full of twists and turns, and you never know how the story's going to end. You usually know who the heroine's going to end up with, but that's definitely not the case here. I was on the edge of my seat rooting and hoping that a certain quiet horse trainer would end up stealing Willa's heart (did he? Well, read it and find out!).
All of the characters are nuanced and deeply layered. Nothing is as it seems (especially love), which Willa is definitely about to find out! Even the not-quite-as-lovable characters come off as relatable and you can see their standpoint and why they've chosen to be like they are.
This book is mysterious and will leave you guessing from page to page, but that's not the best thing about it. The best thing is the theme- how words can greatly impact our lives, for good and for evil, and Politano portrays this so beautifully and impactfully in this book.
There are books that are really good and deserve five stars, and then there are the books that are just so poetically, lyrically brilliant that they leave you speechless and wanting more, and deserve so much more than five measly stars. This book definitely falls in the latter category. Joanna Davidson Politano's best yet!
(Also, can BBC take note of this book? I can definitely see this becoming an acclaimed BBC drama TV show!)
I voluntarily received this book from the publisher in order to write an honest review. All opinions are truly my own.
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