While it didn’t make me cry, it did make me empathize with the characters (mostly John and Naomi, by design I assume). Compassion was a running theme, but the author doesn’t shy away from anger (justified or not) and grief. I thought each character in this large cast acted realistically (given the era of the setting) and with the complex messiness that humans always have. But it was effective! When the timeline caught up to that first teased moment, I actually went back to re-read it, then continued onward.Īlthough the action is external to the characters, how they handle each challenge and hardship highlights and supports their growth throughout the novel. She didn’t need to hook, as the story has plenty of adventure and challenges that kept me turning pages, as well as a delicious slow-burn romance. Harmon starts the book with a pivotal turning point, then walks us back a few months to the start of the May family’s exodus West.
And this is definitely a good Oregon Trail story! I’m a child of the 80’s, and as such I love a good Oregon Trail story (seriously, all that Little House on the Prairie and playing Oregon Trail for computer class fostered it). Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually.make peace with who they are. Ripped apart, they can't turn back, they can't go on, and they can't let go. When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi's family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. John's heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both.īut life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West.
The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. Published by Amazon Publishing on April 28, 2020Īmazon,, Better World Books, Book Depository
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