The book is okay, but the movie version is better--a good story well done, clean and straight-forward. Skip the book, get the movie (Or look on the Hallmark channel, they're still rerunning it.)

I read this series about a year ago and I still talk about it! At first,it was was kind of hard for me to get into it because of the way the characters talked. After a while,it just grows on you and you don't even notice...that is how good the story is. This series is wonderful if you want to read a wonderful love story with great spiritual lessons. This series made me stop and think about what God has done for me and how I can thank Him through everyday little things. I am one of those people who if you are constantly preaching in my face I get nothing out of it,but this was great! Mrs.Oke knows how to deliver a wonderful message without "stepping on toes" if you know what I'm saying. Through this series you grow up with these characters and become so attached to them that when you finish you are almost sad! After I read this I started reading more of her series and they are just as great!!! I HIGHLY recommend this series and author!

Love Comes Softly is a great book. It's the story of young Marty Davis who comes west with Aaron Claridge, her husband. When her husband is killed in a fall from a horse, Marty is trapped in a wild, strange world - alone. And she's with child. When Clark Davis offers her a roof over her head, food to eat, and a passage east in the spring, in exchange for caring for his daughter, she accepts out of desperation and need. They marry (this is 150 years ago) and eventually fall in love.

One of the things I really liked about this book was that it was kind of a romance-in-reverse. Most romances, the characters fall in love and then get married. Here, they got married and then fell in love. Definitely a must for any lover of Janette Oke books, romance novels, or Christian fiction.

This is good reading. The idea of a woman being forced (by her circumstances) into a convience marriage to a man she does not KNOW -let alone LOVE -is julting. But the relationship which, little by little, grew up between them was delightful to see. Clark was so sweet! He always seemed to know the right thing to say to poor Marty. And little Missy was adorable. My favorite part was when Marty decided to make fried chicken for supper. Easier said than done!(laugh) P.S. Watch the movie, too!

I had read all the love come softly books. I first saw the movie from the hallmark channel, and decide to read the book. I really don't care for reading, but these books were easy to read and enjoyable. I enjoyed it better then the movie. I was worried that it wouldnt be as good, but it was. The movie was good, but the books are better. I was reading the book in less then two days. I would recomend this book to anyone. Its just the start to the rest of there journey.