Love Comes Softly

Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As many times as I’ve seen the movie, I couldn’t believe I had never read the book! I saw it as a free download one day and grabbed a copy. As always, the book was way better than the movie. Although, I enjoyed being able to picture the actors in those roles as I read the book.

The book goes deeper into the goals and motivations than a movie can. I liked that. The dialect was written in so that I could “hear” the speech of the characters. Missie is *much* younger in the book, and there are more characters than the movie shows, so the story is deeper. No spoiler, but I liked the ending of the book a lot better than the movie.

Well worth reading … even if you’re seen the movie a dozen times. 🙂

Published by Pegg Thomas

Pegg Thomas lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with Michael, her husband of *mumble* years. She creates American stories with real history and fictional characters inspired by her ancestors who immigrated here in the mid-1600s. Pegg won the 2019 FHL Readers’ Choice Award for novellas, was a double-finalist for the 2019 ACFW Carol Award for novellas, and a finalist for the 2019 ACFW Editor of the Year. She was a finalist in the 2021 FHL Readers’ Choice Award for novellas. Pegg won the 2022 Selah Award for historical romance and placed 2nd with her second entry. She was also a finalist for the 2023 Selah Award and placed 2nd for the 2024 Selah Award. Pegg spent 3 ½ years as the managing editor of Smitten Historical Romance. When not writing or editing, Pegg can be found in her garden, her kitchen, or sitting at one of her spinning wheels creating yarn to turn into her signature wool shawls. View more posts