The Lightkeeper's Bride

This book was better than the first in the trilogy, in that the heroine was less Mary Sue and more independent stubborn girl. The inspirational aspect was light; it appeared when natural for the characters to need to turn to God, which I appreciate. I felt the hero/heroine relationship was one of the more typical bickering a la Beatrice and Benedick... That the heroine latches onto the mystery child so quickly was a little difficult to believe, for me.

But, it was an entertaining read with a better mystery than the first book, and I'm in the middle of reading the third. That's a big deal for me because I tend to shy away from series.

Another book for last year that I forgot to mark as read...
3.5 stars. It was a quick read and, while I enjoyed some of the historical detail, the characters did and said more modern types of things than they ought, especially in terms of speaking. I felt like Coble hadn't been quite as careful in this regard as she was in the first book. But the setting was great and the characters pleasant.