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A review by emilylovesreading_
Chasing the Horizon by Mary Connealy
4.0
I hadn’t read a historical fiction book with an old Western setting in such a long time! Chasing the Horizon is a gripping story of a daughter helping two women, one of them her mother, escape from an insane asylum that they were unjustly thrown into and treated horribly. On the run from her father and his hired Pinkerton agents, Beth and the women, now with a strange man they’ve rescued in tow, join the wagons headed west on the Oregon Trail to try to make a new life for themselves.
This story felt like it began very abruptly and it took me a bit to really sort out how certain people were connected and what was really going on. However, once I got further into the story and was able to really envision the connections and the setting, I was completely invested and on the edge of my seat the rest of the way through. In fact, I stayed up entirely too late to finish the last few chapters!
The romance between Beth and Jake was really sweet and I wished that there had been a bit more of that, so I’m really excited to get to know them better in the next book of the series. The ending has me wondering so many things about Sebastian and Kat and I can’t wait to find out.
Book #2 of the series, titled “Toward the Dawn,” is expected to be published this June already, so definitely jump to read this first book. You don’t want to miss it!
This story felt like it began very abruptly and it took me a bit to really sort out how certain people were connected and what was really going on. However, once I got further into the story and was able to really envision the connections and the setting, I was completely invested and on the edge of my seat the rest of the way through. In fact, I stayed up entirely too late to finish the last few chapters!
The romance between Beth and Jake was really sweet and I wished that there had been a bit more of that, so I’m really excited to get to know them better in the next book of the series. The ending has me wondering so many things about Sebastian and Kat and I can’t wait to find out.
Book #2 of the series, titled “Toward the Dawn,” is expected to be published this June already, so definitely jump to read this first book. You don’t want to miss it!