Genre: Historical Romance
Book one in the Patchwork Family series
Rating: ♥♥♥♥ Four out of five hearts
Description:
Born an anomaly- one eye blue, the other brown- who would ever want Evangeline Hamilton? So whenever she's thrown together with two other unwanted fellow orphans, they become the kind of family they've been looking for.
It's years later, and Logan Fowler is on the path for justice. He's determined to make Zacharias Hamilton, the man who ruined his family's life, pay.... he's just not expecting the man to have such an irresistible younger sister. Her mismatched eyes put her apart from the crowd, it's true, but it's her unquenchable spirit and joy for life that really draw him in. How can he extract his version of justice without hurting her as well?
My Review:
No joke, I've been looking forward this book's release for months. Karen Witemeyer's novels never fail to make me smile, take me on an adventure and sigh with happiness at the end.
Evie Hamilton is an inspiring and unique character. I loved her energy, her zest for life, and the special connection she had with her adopted brothers. I love the idea of a patchwork family, and although Evie and her 'hero' brothers are far from perfect and aren't the best of families at times, their connection and love for each other makes up for it and holds them together. Logan is, basically, an intruder to all of that and I didn't like him too much at the beginning. His less-than-honorable motives near the start of the story made it hard for me to like him throughout the rest of it, actually. Evie and her brothers' prologue was perfection, and I think I could have related to Logan much more had he also had a prologue, showing a younger version of him and why things in his life affected him so.
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The story in and of itself didn't pull me in so much, either. It felt more cliche and contrived than I'm used to seeing with the author. I absolutely loved the idea of the book- patchwork family, mismatched eyes, protective older brothers and mischievous younger sister.... and then what happens when said younger sister falls in love? Older brothers get even more protective, of course. I love stories like that, and I still loved those elements in the story and found parts of it endearing, but I couldn't enjoy the plot or adventure quite as much when it just kind of felt like it had been done before. I wasn't feeling the danger, the suspense- the stakes didn't feel very high.
This isn't going to stop me from eagerly anticipating the next book in the series (will it be about Zach? I'm hoping...)- I'm always going to love and look forward to the release of Karen Witemeyer's novels. I just wish the pace and plot had had a little something extra in it.
Note: I got this book from Bethany House in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
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