Appellate Attorney Pens Western Romance, Earns Five Stars

Title: What Heals the Heart

Author: Karen A. Wyle

Author website: http://www.KarenAWyle.com

Genre: historical romance [whether it's Western historical romance depends on people's definition, given the absence of ranches, cattle drives, gunfights, and outlaws, and only a passing reference to cowboys]

ISBN:  978-0998060453 (10-digit version  0998060453) 

ASIN B07VH1Q6C6

Reviewer's rating: five stars

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Reviewed by Kathryn Blade originally for Amazon

I received a free ARC copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

What Heals the Heart by Karen A. Wyle is a romance in the years following the Civil War in America. Joshua Gibbs moved to the town of Cowbird Creek after the war. He serves as physician to the residents in the area. He meets Clara Brook. Their attraction is immediate.

Ms. Wyle’s understanding of the time period described in the book is impressive. The world of Cowbird Creek is interesting and well developed. Characters are interesting and develop over time. There are plot twists that keep the reader interested. The love story that develops is endearing and timeless. Another strong point is Ms. Wyle’s style of writing. Reading What Heals the Heart is easy as the writing flows in a relaxed, almost conversational style. My world felt right while reading this book, as if I’d found an old friend and sat for a while to drink coffee and chat about life or love.

I give What Heals the Heart five out of five stars. It is one of the best modern historical romances I have read in recent years. Fans of historical romances will enjoy this book.

Ms. Wyle, if you’re out there reading this, just know I’m a huge fan now.

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Kathryn Blade is an indie author and book reviewer. She writes book reviews, poetry, and light romance.  She says, "Check out the recent cool things I've been up to: 

Tons of book reviews posted on Amazon, Goodreads, and Bookbub. 

My interview on the NF Reads website. 

My guest blog post on author Matt Brown's blog. 

​Ebooks of my first works are available on Amazon. 

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Karen A. Wyle was born a Connecticut Yankee, but eventually settled in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University. She now considers herself a Hoosier. Wyle's childhood ambition was to be the youngest ever published novelist. While writing her first novel at age 10, she was mortified to learn that some British upstart had beaten her to the goal at age 9.

Wyle is an appellate attorney, photographer, political junkie, and mother of two daughters. Her voice is the product of almost five decades of reading both literary and genre fiction. It is no doubt also influenced, although she hopes not fatally tainted, by her years of law practice. Her personal history has led her to focus on often-intertwined themes of family, communication, the impossibility of controlling events, and the persistence of unfinished business.

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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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• Author: Lisa J. Lickel
• Publisher: Prism Lux (November 20, 2019)
• Publication Date: November 20, 2019
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
• Language: English
• ASIN: B07YSXXMD6
• Genre: Romance. Christian Romance
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Reviewed by Eliza Earsman originally for Amazon.co.uk  

Well written, heartwarming and sometimes moving.

Booklovers:

This well written, heartwarming and sometimes moving, clever mix, entwines to present this romantic decent and interesting story.

This feel-good fiction uplifts us via Gospel teachings and is to be recommended, as two damaged people come together to live, laugh and love.

Pelican Book Group publishes Christmas holiday stories each year. Don't go past this one – Crazy Creek Christmas (set in Wyoming) by Lisa Lickel - for your Christmas list. Pick up your copy and appreciate.

I’m looking forward to the next book written by this remarkable author.

Five stars – commended.

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The Great First Impression Book Proposal

Subtitle: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book to an Agent or Publisher in Thirty Minutes or Less

Second Edition

Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Publisher: Modern History Press

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ISBN: 9781615994816

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Reviewed by Jim Cox for Library Bookwatch

This review  will also appear in the Cengage Learning, Gale interactive CD-ROM series "Book Review Index" which is published four times yearly for academic, corporate, and public library systems.

Synopsis: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, has been a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor for nearly a decade. In "The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book to an Agent or Publisher in Thirty Minutes or Less" she draws upon her decades of experience and expertise to helps authors successfully execute the task they most love to hate -- writing a book proposal. In this 54 page booklet Carolyn has taken the guessing out of the book proposal process with a thoroughly 'user friendly' and effective step-by-step instructional guide and manual.

Critique: The creation of an effective book proposal cannot be overemphasized as a basic skill set for all aspiring authors seeking publication of their work -- and Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a time-tested expert on the subject. Every aspiring (and even seasoned) author needs to obtain and carefully read "The Great First Impression Book Proposal" -- and every Creative Writing class should list "The Great First Impression Book Proposal" on their supplemental studies reading lists. It should be noted for personal reading lists that "The Great First Impression Book Proposal" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $2.99) and a hard copy.

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James A. Cox is  Editor-in-Chief of Midwest Book Review and Library Bookwatch. Learn more about the resources he provides for writers at www.midwestbookreview.com.  Read more reviews like this one on his Writing/Publishing Shelf on that website. 

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Reviewer's Take: Karen A. Wyle's Romance Heals Hearts

What Heals the Heart 

(Cowbird Creek 1)

Author, Karen A. Wyle http://www.KarenAWyle.com

Genre: historical romance

Oblique Angle Press

ISBN: 978-0998060453 

ASIN: B07VH1Q6C6

Whitney Simonsen, Honestly Austen, https://honestlyausten.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/what-heals-the-heart-review

Oblique Angles Press

Reviewer rating = five stars plus two exclamation points

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Reviewed by Whitney Simonson originally for Honestly Austen and Goodreads

Synopsis:

Joshua Gibbs survived the Civil War, building on his wartime experiences to become a small 
 . And if he wakes from nightmares more often than he would like, only his dog Major is there to know it.

Then two newcomers arrive in Cowbird Creek: Clara Brook, a plain-speaking and yet enigmatic farmer’s daughter, and Freida Blum, an elderly Jewish widow from New York. Freida knows just what Joshua needs: a bride. But it shouldn’t be Clara Brook!

Joshua tries everything he can think of to discourage Freida’s efforts, including a wager: if he can find Freida a husband, she’ll stop trying to find him a wife. Will either matchmaker succeed? Or is it Clara, a woman with her own scars, who can heal the doctor’s troubled heart?

My Favourite Quotes:

"But from time to time she turned to him as if studying him. He let her scrutinize him. Maybe she would discover something about him that he needed to know.”

“‘Who would want an old lady like me?’ Joshua put down his fork and leaned forward o his elbows. ‘Anyone who wants a woman with experience, a woman who knows something about life, who’s also a good cook, and smart, and funny, and has a heart as big as the prairie.'”

“Robert’s grin grew even wider. ‘Matchmaking in self-defense! I like it.'”

“But instead, he found himself looking for a letter he’d gotten from his mother the week before, and reading it over, and kissing her signature.”

“A long pause. ‘The family was told he had died in battle. And I the only one to know, to understand, what that means. The others imagine something swift – a bullet extinguishing him in an instant. They never saw, or heard, or – or smelled the things that let me imagine what he likely endured. And that is just part of what makes me feel like… some different kind of creature, pretending to be like them, to be one of them. To be the daughter and sister I used to be. Someone I scarcely remember being.'”

My Thoughts:

I am back, literary lovelies, with my first book review in quite some time. AND I have to tell you I am so glad this was the book to start me off reviewing once again.

Having battled with being triggered by my previous read for my book club I found myself in a reading drought. I could not focus on anything and felt genuinely disheartened until I received an email asking me for a book review.

A quote from one of my all-time favourite novels, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, helps illustrate my next point, “Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”

I believe that secret homing instinct was at work bringing What Heals the Heart by Karen A. Wyle to me as I needed to be rescued in more than just the literary sense. I could never say my personal mental health struggles would completely align with the main character of What Heals the Heart but through the actions and friendships of this novel, I found it healing my own heart in a very real way. (And yes I am very aware of my intended pun – or whatever we are wanting to call it!)

It is essential for mental health to become a more common discourse in our lives and novels can be a fundamental tool in doing so. What Heals the Heart brilliantly connects the reader to the characters reliving collective trauma and illustrates how profound support and understanding can be in finding forms of healing.

I am often drawn to books that discuss aspects of mental health as they often help to heal me as oppose to trigger me. I was touched by Wyle’s way of illustrating with due care and attention the post-traumatic experiences of more than one character within this novel. She was able to bring a perfect amount of lightness (small town matchmaking and quirky friendships) to balance a tough subject.

The friendships in this novel were phenomenal and I loved every single one of them. Wyle is able to create characters who I wanted to befriend. Who I felt came to life for me as a reader. Characters I fought for, cheered for, loved, and in all honesty, cried for and with.

I felt like I held my breath the whole time I was writing that!

But before I leave you, I must do some review-wise housekeeping. Ready?

How long is too long of a quote to have in my ‘My Favourite Quotes’ section, dear readers? I only ask because the last quote I wrote in the above section was quite a bit longer. I have gone back and forth over whether or not I should include it in its entirety or just implore you to go and read this novel especially the rest of this moment between Clara Brooks and Dr. Joshua Gibbs in Chapter 23! It stands out as one of my favourite moments (of many) in the book. [Bloggers Note: Please feel free to answer Whitney in the comments section of this blog.]

I heart What Heals the Heart this much:  ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ !!

*** Copy received from the author in exchange for an honest review ***

More About the Author 

Learn more about Karen A. Wyle from:

Her website: karenawyle.com

Facebook: @KarenAWyle

Twitter: @KarenAWyle 

or on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Karen-A-Wyle/e/B005WK7D26/

About the Reviewer

Learn more at https://honestlyausten.wordpress.com/about/

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This blog is a free service offered to those who want to encourage the reading of books they love. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page. Reviews and essays are indexed by genre, reviewer names, and review sites. Writers will find the search engine handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor.

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