Rocky Mountain Journey by Misty M. Beller (Austenprose PR Book Tour)

 

Title:  Rocky Mountain Journey

Author:  Misty M. Beller

Narrated by:  Pilar Witherspoon

Publisher: Recorded Books

Length: Approximately 7 hours and 11 minutes

Source: Audiobook purchased from Amazon.com.  Thank you to Bethany House Fiction for the physical copy of the novel as part of the Austenprose PR Book Tour.

Where are you at with your summer reading goals?  I am finding myself slightly behind and I estimated I would get a lot more reading completed in June than I did due to my oldest son’s graduation open house.  Hopefully I will get my summer themed books next month!

In 1839, Faith Collins journeys through the Rocky Mountains in search of Steps Right, a Piegan Blackfoot woman who once saved her father’s life in order to fulfill her father’s dying wish.  She disguises herself as a man in order to travel with a group of trappers.  Grant Allen, a man working with the band of trappers as he looks for his long-lost brother, quickly realizes that Faith is a woman.  Together they help each other fulfill their quests.  Will they both find who they are looking for?

My thoughts on this novel:

·       I always love books that involve a journey.  I loved Faith and Grants journey into the Rocky Mountains in search of missing loved ones.

·       This book also had adventure that includes a kidnapping and rescue.

·       This novel included a good side plot on how Grant had lost his faith and how he works to get his faith back throughout the novel. 

·       The romance between Grant and Faith was sweet and clean.

·       I love the cover of this book; it looks so beautiful and makes me want to visit the Rocky Mountains as soon as possible. The story had great description of the area as well.

·       I will admit that I was hoping for more story on trapping in the wild, but Faith and Grant leave the trappers early in the novel.

·       I liked that Grant figured out early on that Faith was a woman disguised as a man.  I always find it strange when a love story has the female disguised for way too long and it makes it hard for me to see them together as a couple.

·       This is the third novel in the Sisters of the Rockies series.  It worked fine as a stand alone novel, but I think I would have gotten more out of it if I would have had the back story of the first two novels.  In particular, I would have understood the background characters of Faith’s family much better.  I definitely need to go back to read them.

·       Once again, with life being so busy, I have found that listening to the audiobook is the best way for me to read this novel.  It was a good audiobook and I enjoyed Pilar Witherspoon as the narrator. 

·       An excerpt was included at the end for a new novel, A Warrior’s Heart, which is the start of a new series.  It pulled me in and looks like a great new series.

Overall, Rocky Mountain Journey was a good historical romance and journey through adventure, love, and faith.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Masquerading as a man, Faith Collins embarks on a perilous journey through the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains in search of the Peigan Blackfoot woman who once saved her father's life. She joins a group of trappers who may be able to lead her to the place the woman is hiding, but keeping Faith's identity a secret proves more difficult than she imagined.

Grant Allen is searching for his younger brother, who was separated from him when their parents died many years ago. After receiving word that his brother went west to the Rockies, he unites with a group of trappers, hoping they can lead him to his brother's location. Soon Grant realizes there's a woman hiding among the men, and he's determined to find out who she is, what she's hiding, and how he can keep her safe in this country of wild animals and even wilder men.

In this rousing conclusion to her Sisters of the Rockies series, Misty M. Beller embarks on an adventurous journey where loyalty, love, and sacrifice intertwine amid the unforgiving frontier.

AUTHOR BIO

USA Today bestselling author Misty M. Beller (MistyMBeller.com) writes romantic mountain stories set on the 1800s frontier and woven through with the truth of God's love. Her Southern roots run deep, and she lives in South Carolina with her husband and children.