A review by supermanabi
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 One of the very many reading challenges I’m doing is to read every single Stonewall Award winner ever, so of course, I kicked it off by reading the first ever winner, Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller. It was a very deserving award winner. This was such a well-done book. The historical elements were incredibly present (you never forgot that this was set in the nineteenth-century) without being overbearing (you didn’t receive so much detail to place in that time period that you lost the story). The romance between the title characters was sugar sweet when things were going well, heartachingly tender at all times, and stomach-clenching awful when things were going poorly... Read the full review here