Book Review: The Blacksmith's Bride

Series: The Book Club

Publisher: Lange House Press

Release Date: July 23, 2019

Genre: Time Travel Romance

Susan Hanson’s life is normal, but she wants more. Finding excitement in her novels, she eagerly joined a book club, but when a new woman joins the group, strange things start happening. This purple-haired woman can actually grant wish fulfillment. Deciding to give it a try, she agrees to let Dr. Lachele work her magic and Susan discovers herself on her same street in New York, but more than one hundred years in the past.

Michael Clark has always wanted someone to call his own. His parents, then his uncle die, leaving him without a place to call his own. He’s welcomed by the good people of Birch Creek in the Idaho Territory, but he wants a family. Since women are hard to come by, he does the most logical thing he can. He orders a bride from New York.

When Susan decides to answer Michael’s advertisement, she’s sure it will be for the best, after all, Dr. Lachele’s got a gift. The first moment they meet, Michael and Susan know marriage is the next step but with her oddities, and his old fashioned views, can the two of them actually build a life together?

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My Review ♥️

I am the girl that lives in her books and just like the heroine Susan Hanson, I have dreamed of the man that would sweep me off my feet, like the hero's in my favorite tales. I don't think that I am as strong and brave as the leading lady of The Blacksmith's Bride. Leaving your life, and era, and becoming a mail order bride in hopes that fate would match you with your prince charming is a bravery I do not possess.

Taking us to Birch Creek, Idaho at the turn of the century, with newly pioneered land, Laura D. Bastian does an incredible job of painting a beautiful picture of this primitive frontier. Both Susan and Michael, the mail order groom, are incredibly fleshed out and I found myself immediately falling in love with Susan's strength of character and Michael's pure and genuine spirit. They are a pair that I rooted for from the beginning and couldn't wait to see their happy ending.

A quick, satisfying read that is perfect to curl up with on a cozy Saturday afternoon, The Blacksmith's Bride is a wonderful addition to The Book Club series and is easily read as a standalone.

My Rating: ★★★★

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About the Author

Laura D. Bastian grew up in a small town in central Utah and now lives in another small town in northern Utah. She always loved stargazing and imagining life outside her own little world. Though they grew up only thirty miles apart, she didn't meet her husband until they went to college. A graduate of Utah State University with a degree in Elementary and Special Education, Laura has been using that training as she raises her children and writes make believe worlds. You can usually find her on her laptop either typing away, or on social media interacting with friends.