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A review by scarlettg12
The Blizzard Bride by Susanne Dietze
4.0
Thanks to NetGalley and Barbour Publishing for an ARC of this book! Release date - February 1, 2020
I must say I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this book. It’s been hit or miss with me on this never ending series, and thanks to NetGalley I think I’m committed to reading them without being asked until the end of time. Luckily every now and then there have been ones I’ve quite enjoyed, this one included.
I was completely invested in these characters. They were likable, sympathetic, realistic, and I was really rooting for them, in both the romance aspect and the Secret Service, track down the murdering counterfeiter aspect. The mystery really was well-done. Despite the pool of suspects being pretty small, I was never quite sure who was Pitch or his son thanks to some really well-placed hints that had me changing my guess over and over.
I loved that the blizzard in the title was a real historical event. Previous books in this series have almost always been set during a war, so for the historical context here to be a catastrophic blizzard was clever and refreshing. The author’s note actually had me wanting to look up this blizzard and read more about it. Apparently it’s often referred to as the Children’s Blizzard, because of the 235 people who died, 213 were children. So making the main character in this story a schoolteacher in her classroom when the blizzard hit was scary and realistic.
So all in all I’m glad I read this book. The books I’ve enjoyed in this series are pretty great, clean, historical romances that are set around real events. And the fact that I enjoyed this one has definitely made me more favorably inclined to read the next one I will undoubtedly receive from NetGalley in a few months.
I must say I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this book. It’s been hit or miss with me on this never ending series, and thanks to NetGalley I think I’m committed to reading them without being asked until the end of time. Luckily every now and then there have been ones I’ve quite enjoyed, this one included.
I was completely invested in these characters. They were likable, sympathetic, realistic, and I was really rooting for them, in both the romance aspect and the Secret Service, track down the murdering counterfeiter aspect. The mystery really was well-done. Despite the pool of suspects being pretty small, I was never quite sure who was Pitch or his son thanks to some really well-placed hints that had me changing my guess over and over.
I loved that the blizzard in the title was a real historical event. Previous books in this series have almost always been set during a war, so for the historical context here to be a catastrophic blizzard was clever and refreshing. The author’s note actually had me wanting to look up this blizzard and read more about it. Apparently it’s often referred to as the Children’s Blizzard, because of the 235 people who died, 213 were children. So making the main character in this story a schoolteacher in her classroom when the blizzard hit was scary and realistic.
So all in all I’m glad I read this book. The books I’ve enjoyed in this series are pretty great, clean, historical romances that are set around real events. And the fact that I enjoyed this one has definitely made me more favorably inclined to read the next one I will undoubtedly receive from NetGalley in a few months.