I just love the way Frantz describes scenery. A hot wind skimmed over them, spreading the heady scent of honeysuckle.'ĭescriptions like that made me want to go read in the middle of a dense forest where I could smell the honeysuckle for myself. 'Her eyes fastened on the surrounding woods, lush and green, and the rutted ribbon of road that divided dense thickets of oak and elm and maple. Morrow and her father live along the Red River, outside the Fort, and are surrounded by the wondrous beauties of nature. In the wild, untamed and savage land of Kentucke in the late 1700's. In terms of quality, this novel gets all due credit! The way Frantz molded her characters was brilliant, and her beautiful descriptions of scenery and life on the frontier flowed magnificently throughout. There is no doubt that this novel is incredibly well-written, and the amount of intense research is evident. Adjectives like 'awesome' and 'amazing' still come to mind when I think about Courting Morrow Little, but they are more in terms of quality than enjoyment. So, I felt a little bummed, because it is no fun not liking a book as much as your friends did, when you were sure you'd really love it too. It didn't grab me the way The Colonel's Lady, the other book I have read by Laura Frantz, had grabbed me. While I greatly enjoyed it for the most part and was really interested in the story, it didn't grab me the way a really good book usually grabs me.

I love the feeling of LOOOOVIIINNGGGG a book, and I was disappointed when I put this one down that I didn't feel quite like that. I've heard this book praised to the skies many times, and most of my friends who read this LOOOOVEEEE it. My expectations for Courting Morrow Little were really high. But I feel a bit of a rant coming on because I had a few issues with it, and I don't want people to think I didn't like the book because I did. Before I begin, let me just say that: I did like this book.

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