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Title: Alone on the Oregon Trail
Author: Vanessa Carvo
Narrator: Tina Marie Shuster
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-18-14
Publisher: Quietly Blessed and Loved Press
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Romance, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Alone on the Oregon Trail is a wonderful, emotional, Christian Romance novel set in the 1850s along the trail through the prairies and on a ranch at the end of the journey. A woman and her husband escape from Cholera-ridden New York City, after selling all that they own and buying two horses and a covered wagon. They start out for the Midwest - somewhere - having no idea where they will eventually end up. Something happens along the way and one of them struggles to survive, with only their diminishing faith in God to sustain them. This is an audiobook to cry and laugh with, and enjoy the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, but also to relish the love of God and family and children.
Members Reviews:
Do not bother!
This book is a narrative.......and a bad one at that! No interaction between characters....no nothing! I should write books.....I could do a better job! No towns......no people......just a prairie and one farm....evidently she gets married......there was no romance.....it just happened. Who was this publisher?
I tried to like this, I really did.
I loathe getting and giving anything less than four star reviews, but had to in this case.
What's right?
1. If you're wanting a Christian read, this is it. The book has tons of references to God's love, even going so far as to name a family in the book, Love. Lots of paraphrasing the Bible in it, mainly from the New Testament, of course.
2. The plot was very interesting. I loved everything about the reasons for leaving New York, their plans, and the trials they/she endured. Most of it was very real.
What's wrong?
1. Word echos and sentences that last forever. Reading this out loud would have solved these problems. It's difficult to read an entire paragraph as a single sentence, which is the way most of these are written. Plus, a non article adjective word (a, an, the) would be repeated enough to sound comical when read aloud.
2. A big one that would have been fixed by a glance at a map of the Oregon Trail? The Trail didn't start until Omaha, Nebraska or Independence, Missouri. Even then, the character would have seen a lot of people on the trail to the Trail. Especially so if she stuck to the main road.
3. Her husband massaging the bunny back to health I suppose was intended to show his love for all creatures, as God is said to have for his followers. But, having done the research on traveling to Oregon in a wagon, the first thing I though was "Dinner!" when the rabbit was mentioned. Not "Spa treatment!" Sorry, but that did crack me up a little. :D
4. This is just me and my personal opinion, but I'm never going to like a woman who needs a man to speak to God for her. But, times were different back then, and even today in some faiths, men are the path women need to follow to enter Heaven, so it is realistic.
5. The timing seemed off in a lot of places. She's complaining about the smell of death, then buries her husband. I didn't get a sense of days or hours passing. Plus, going from Nebraska or Missouri would have taken five to six months. From NYC to Nebraska, not so much. After that, I kind of spaced out on the timing because I felt it was not reliable.
6. Finally, the fatal flaw. This book is told to us, not shown to us. This entire text breaks the sacred "Show, don't tell" rule.
