One Step Enough
Loving Vigil #2
Carla Kelly
Historical Romance
Published in 2018
H/h - Owen Davis/Della Anders Davis
Setting: Utah, 1900-1901.
Read in June/July, 2018.
[spoiler alert]
Loving Vigil #2
Carla Kelly
Historical Romance
Published in 2018
H/h - Owen Davis/Della Anders Davis
Setting: Utah, 1900-1901.
Read in June/July, 2018.
My rating:
[spoiler alert]
One Step Enough is Carla Kelly’s latest release, and a sequel to her wonderful novel, My Loving Vigil Keeping.
Book 1 was based on the 1900s Scofield mining disaster, but it also had
a h and a H, whose lives entwined with the chaos of it all. Carla Kelly
gave such vivid narratives of everything about a mining town, the lives
of its inhabitants and how a tragedy can shatter hundreds of lives,
that for me who had no idea about this disaster, it was an experience
TBH!
My Loving Vigil Keeping was released in 2012 and I
read it in 2015. Initially I thought it was 2017 but then I had to check
the date of my review on goodreads to be sure. No wonder I had
forgotten many intricate details of the story that had taken me time to
remember! Don’t get me wrong, I remembered the story and what happened
but this book had many characters so there were many details to
remember, littlest things that seemed inconsequential at that time but
had quite the profound meaning in book 2. I didn’t want to do a reread
because I was too impatient to read One Step Enough. But can
you blame me though? I thought book 1 ended very abruptly, yet, seeing
the time that had passed since the publication, frankly I didn’t think
there was any sequel planned for this book. I’m so glad that Ms. Kelly
decided to give us another tour of Della and Owens’s life. I practically
screamed when I saw One Step Enough on Amazon!
My Loving Vigil Keeping
begins with the story of our h, Della Anders. She was an orphan whose
father died, who had never met her mother but was told she ditched them
when Della was an infant. At 12, after her father Frederick’s tragic
death in a Colorado mine, Della came to live with her rich uncle Karl’s
home only to find it no home of any kind. Frederick
had loved her, and even poor, took care of her as best as he could but
this house here was cold and cruel. Her aunt Caroline never took to her
and found immense pleasure in taunting, berating or maligning Della to
anyone she could find because she was poor; because her father was the
proverbial family ‘blacksheep’ who brought ‘shame’ to the prominent
Anders family; because she didn’t look like the tall and blonde Anders
clan. But mostly because Della was illegitimate. Her tormentors included
her two cousins as well. Della was never given a chance to mourn her
father properly because Caroline forbade any such thing if she’s to live
with them. Karl pretty much let his wife abuse the child and ignored it
all so he himself can live in peace.