Brides of Montana

Cathy Marie Hake is an author with a significant humorous streak to her writing. I have loved her stuff for many years. Kelly Eileen Hake is Cathy Marie's daughter and writes in the same genre and for a long time, I felt she needed to grow to be as good as her mother. With the three novellas in the collection, Brides of Montana, Kelly has grown up. These are the best offerings she has produced.

Using the passage from Ecclesiastes 3, she uses a single theme for each novella, and each novella covers a generation of a group of families who all moved to Montana together. Taking place in the years 1864, 1886, and 1916, the families all face different challenges that make the stories come together. The repetition of characters throughout the novels allows for significant development.

Delana and Dustin move through misunderstandings before they get their act together. Rosalinnd wants adventure and the coming of the railroad brings the opportunities for those adventures. Nessa and Isaac have been paired together by their families ever since they were born. It takes a new family coming to town to show them what true love is.

This is a five-star book, two thumbs up, and a homestead in Montana.

My thanks to Barbour books for allowing me to read and review this book.

Good old fashioned western love stories filled with Godly principles and characters who love Him...

Three stories in one are the kind of books that introduce you to wonderful authors,,, when they also center around a state where you happen to live for a time, that makes it all the more fun. I thoroughly enjoyed these adventures. From the brave women who set out to find their husbands in the brutal Montana terrain to the stubborn men who want what is best for their woman, these stories will remind you of God's wisdom as well as His abundant ability to keep us in all things.

Brides of Montana is a great 3-book series by Kelly Eileen Hake, which I find a great author. I enjoyed all 3 stories. It’s funny that I found myself frustrated with the characters of the first story the most. With the miscommunication going on in that one… Ugh! I found myself wanting to yell at them to speak up so they understood each other better. I loved how Kelly painted the Montana scenery and I could see it in my mind. Such brave ones to be some of the first to go and develop a new land for them and their families to live on for the long haul.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Brides of Montana is a great 3-book series by Kelly Eileen Hake, easy to read novellas. Three young women from three different generations face hardships and obstacles in their path to love in Montana. Each story can be read alone, but all of them are tied to a small town and a generational family that began with the first story. Good Christian read by a great author..... I received a copy of this book from the Publisher and Netgalley; all the opinions expressed in this review are all my own.