Daughter of Joy by Kathleen Morgan

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I received this book as a Free Friday selection from BN.com and its publisher, and it is no longer free. Christian fiction is a genre from which I don't often make my reading selections.

I enjoyed the western-romance story of a widow who becomes the housekeeper to the ranch owner and his belligerent daughter, and the characters are well-drawn in the beginning. My rating dropped from three stars to two stars when the discussions of faith and behavior went from a conversational, character-specific tone to a tone better suited to a sermon delivered from a pulpit. It was as if Abby, Ella and Sally were all reading from the same script. Another small item that brought me out of the fictive dream occurred when Abby poured the biscuit batter into a tin, and I thought to myself,"That's not how I would make biscuits." I would either make drop biscuits or I would roll out the dough and cut them into circles with a jelly glass.

I recommend this book to a reader who enjoys the genre of Christian fiction.




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