Love's Enduring Promise

Love's Enduring Promise (#2 Love Comes Softly series) by Janette Oke


This is the sequel to Love Comes Softly. Marty and Clark are settled in their marriage and in their small frontier community. Their children are thriving and the settlement has decided to build a school and find a teacher. The family continues to grow. This includes Marty taking in two neighbor girls after their mother dies and their father feels that they will slow him as he continues with his life.
The school is completed, a teacher procured and a parson found. Land is cleared for a new cemetery. Marty's children grow quickly. Marty tries to help Tommy the neighbor boy after he falls in love with an Indian squaw. Marty's older girls marry. Marty and Clark build a new house.

The tale is sweet and gentle. I wish that Tommy and his love ended up together, it would have made for a better story with more depth. The fact that he ran off and found a white girl was a let down. I had a hard time telling how much time had passed at the beginning of the chapters. Sometimes it was days, or months, or years. By the end of the book time began flying and Marty's daughter Missy had grown up and moved away. There were endearing parts that brought a tear to the eye. I wasn't wildly entertained.
Rating 3 But this is a low 3. It was clean and sweet but not spectacular. It didn't have anything I hated about it so I hesitate to rate it lower.
Rating G