Bear Grass Springs #4.5
Ramona Flightner
Historical Romance
Published in 2018
H/h - Karl Johansen/Leena Johansen
Setting: Montana, 1886.
Read in November, 2018.
My rating:
[spoiler alert]
Jubilant Montana Christmas
by Ramona Flightner is a novella and the newest installment in her Bear
Grass Springs series. Even though I’m a big fan of Ramona’s writing, I
found myself with very mixed feeling about this series in particular.
However, Karl and Leena’s story, which I didn’t really anticipate all
that much seeing they were minor characters in the previous books,
turned out to be a lovely read.
Ramona’s Banished Saga was/is
absolutely marvelous and I always recommend that series. It’s more of a
family saga spanning generations, rather than your typical story and HEA
for one couple per installment. Bear Grass Springs falls under the
latter category, though it’s beginning to stand out on its own. Ramona
writes clean romances so if you love clean romances with sweet stories
set in late 19th or early 20th century Montana (and Boston), then her
books are for you!
Bear Grass Springs began with the stories of
the MacKinnon brothers Cailean, Alistair and Ewan, in the first 3
installments respectively titled Montana Untamed, Montana Grit and Montana Maverick.
They also have a younger sister called Sorcha. They’re from Scotland,
but have settled in the Bear Grass Springs Montana in search of a better
life. Cailean and Alistair own the only livery in town, which they’ve
managed to make a successful business out of. Ewan is a carpenter and
his business is thriving as well. The brothers were much sought after
bachelors until they settled down with the love of their lives, Cailean
with the town baker Annabelle, Alistair with Leticia who was a school
teacher before she began helping Annabelle with her rapidly growing
bakery business. Ewan finally found someone to love in Jessamine, a news
reporter newly arrived in Bear Grass Springs; also the proprietor of
the town’s only newspaper. The backgrounds of all 3 of heroines are told
in their books. However my feelings for all 3 books were pretty
ambivalent. The first two, the brothers were being obtuse and in turn,
there were loads of misunderstanding and frustration that made me wanna
kick their a$$. And for book 3, I didn’t like the heroine AT ALL.
