jsabrina 's review for:

Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
5.0

This book has my favorite first line of all time and fulfills that promise with a beautifully told story filled with finely detailed characters and a rich sense of place and history.

The central character, Elizabeth Middleton, is an engaging heroine whose mixture of strengths and weaknesses is entirely believable. Her relationship with Nathaniel Bonner is also believable as a blossoming romance between grown-ups.

Donati has written four or five volumes in this series, but in my opinion none of them live up to the power of this first story.