It
is a skilled writer who can paint such vivid mental images of the
tenderness of burly mountain men of Viking ancestry to their
cherished wives and children, as well as their ferocity in battle to
defend those same dear ones. It is an intuitive writer who can touch
the depths of both loyalty and betrayal, fear and forgiveness,
addiction and surrender. Joanne Bischof is just such an author and
her talents are in full display in her Blackbird Mountain series, of
which Daughters of Northern Shores is
the second book, and hopefully not the last because readers will long
to know the story of Haakon Norgaard and Kjersti Jönsson.
Thor
Norgaard is the focus of the first book, and shares that attention
with his younger brother Haakon in the second book. Neither's story
would be complete without the influence of the third brother, Jorgan.
These men, two hearing and one deaf, rely on their sense of family,
their heritage, and their faith as they cut out a life in the
mountains of Virginia in the late 1800s. They learn that sometimes
the enemy lives among their neighbors and sometimes it can live
within themselves.
I
received a complimentary copy of Daughters of Northern
Shores from Thomas Nelson
through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely
my own.
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