Orphan Train Trials (Hearts on the Rails Book 2) by Rachel Wesson

Title Orphan Train Trials (Hearts on the Rails)
Author Rachel Wesson
ISBN-10: 179167383X

ISBN-13: 978-1791673833

ASIN:  B07J5DC368
Price $11.99 Paperback, $ 7.49 Audiobook, $3.99 Kindle
Page Count 348
Formats (PB, Audiobook, Kindle)

Reviewed by Carolyn Wilhelm

Orphan Train Trials is book two in the Hearts on the Rails series by Dublin author, Rachel Wesson. How does an author imagine life in America from the early 1900s from so far away as to time and distance? Rachel Wesson does just that for so many of her historical fiction books.

The children who rode the orphan train became close as possible and sometimes were actual siblings. They watched out for each other as much as they could, usually living apart. Some children became indentured servants much too young, some met fates that were even worse, and some were loved as the program intended. Oh, to be a lucky one, but that is not what happened with all the adoptees in this story. 

Bella tries not to become attached to the orphans she chaperones on the train ride to various towns where people just said they would take the children -- and the children were given to them. However, Bella cannot help herself from loving six-year-old twins. There was no application, no formal "vetting," and no actual knowledge of what would happen. People did try to check a year later, but often it was after abuse and neglect had occurred. 

It almost seemed this book was written for a middle grades audience as it is an easy read although touching on abuse topics. So the intended audience is adults although abuse is vaguely described. We do understand what the abuse is without getting the actual details. 

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Thank you for reading!

Carolyn Wilhelm, UDEMY Instructor for Self-Publishing from the Very, Very Beginning

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