All Together in One Place

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Summary: A great author gets better and better...
Review: Jane Kirkpatrick is a great story teller. Her novels, based on true historical events, leave the reader inspired and immensly satisfied. In this novel Jane weaves together a collection of characters that inspire us and capture us with their courage and humaness. A portrayal of hardship on the Oregon trail and the bonding of a group of admirable women in the face of adversity.

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Summary: First-rate historical detail!
Review: Jane Kirkpatrick knows her overland trail history and the human heart. It's a pleasure to read such an accurate re-creation of the pioneer experience. As the author of two books about the California trail, I can vouch for Kirkpatrick's accuracy.

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Summary: A Beautiful Journey
Review: Jane Kirkpatrick writes a stirring novel about friendships, perserverance, hope and loss in this first of 3 wonderful novels. With just enough history and intrigue her books are masterfully written, but her real talent is to create characters that touch your heart. This is a tear-jerker, with rich insight into the heart of a woman but there are tender smiles as well! I recommend all of this series!

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Summary: Inspirational Read, another title from a great author
Review: Jane Kirkpatrick's writing is not only inspirational, but also historically accurate. Her story brings alive the tribulations these women faced alone on the Oregon Trail. Who knows how close she comes to the actual facts, her research and depth of character is so marvelous. A great book. I love each of Ms. Kirkpatrick's books and consider her one of our outstanding Western Woman authors!

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Summary: Great entertainment
Review: Jane's books take me back to childhood when I used to read Little House on the Prarie. Not only is this series good, it is a page turner, fun and good moral standards. If you like Little House you will loves Jane's work!

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Summary: Great entertainment
Review: Jane's books take me back to childhood when I used to read Little House on the Prarie. Not only is this series good, it is a page turner, fun and good moral standards. If you like Little House you will loves Jane's work!

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Summary: All Together In One Place
Review: Journey with Madison Bacon and eleven faith-tested women who dare to determine their own destiny when fate cuts an unexpected and sorrowful trail into parts unknown -- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Jane Kirkpatrick writes not of one-dimensional paperback characters, but rather intricately fingerpaintings humanity meeting it's most heartbreaking challenges. I recognized myself in the character of Mazy Bacon. As she endured her journey; feared, loved, wept, grieved, grew in understanding and knowledge, confidence, and faith in her God-- so did I!

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Summary: Inspiring
Review: Kirkpatrick did a fabulous job researching to write this book with historical accurateness. Everyone of the characters came alive for me. The tenacity it took for the ladies to accomplish what they did is inspiring. Hopefully, whenever I am distressing over my little inconveniences I will remember these ladies and realize that compared to what they went through my life is a cake walk. I am anxious to start the second book to find out what Jeremy was hiding, what will happen to Ruth, and will Tipton ever start to wonder about Tyrell's death. All of the ladies in our book club loved the book and came away with a feeling of wonder.

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Summary: Politically Correct but well written
Review: No doubt about it - Jan Kirkpatrick is a wonderful writer. Each sentence is a work of art, and there is great depth and seems to be extremely well researched. I had a couple of problems with the book though. One was just that I'm not much of a wilderness/Old West buff, but the reviews made me decide to go ahead and read it. I still am not a fan of the genre after reading the book, so I'm sure that taints my opinion. The second problem I had was with the characters. The characters are wonderfully written and very real and multi dimensional. But, for the most part, I just didn't care for them too much. The ending helps shows the growth they made, but I really wasn't rooting for any of them through the book. Perhaps it was the politically correct slant that I felt throughout. All Indians and Asians were good, and did no wrong, while anyone who expressed fear of the Indians were shown to be judgemental and foolish. Ninety percent of the men were bullys, liars, abusive. The women were the stronger morally, spiritually, emotionally, and half the time physically. And while the book has a nice spiritual edge to it - the one person who is identified with faith is of course the legalistic, slightly dense one of the group. So, for me it's a mixed bag - great writing with a little preachiness and harshness that diluted the strength of the book overall.

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Summary: Politically Correct but well written
Review: No doubt about it - Jan Kirkpatrick is a wonderful writer. Each sentence is a work of art, and there is great depth and seems to be extremely well researched. I had a couple of problems with the book though. One was just that I'm not much of a wilderness/Old West buff, but the reviews made me decide to go ahead and read it. I still am not a fan of the genre after reading the book, so I'm sure that taints my opinion. The second problem I had was with the characters. The characters are wonderfully written and very real and multi dimensional. But, for the most part, I just didn't care for them too much. The ending helps shows the growth they made, but I really wasn't rooting for any of them through the book. Perhaps it was the politically correct slant that I felt throughout. All Indians and Asians were good, and did no wrong, while anyone who expressed fear of the Indians were shown to be judgemental and foolish. Ninety percent of the men were bullys, liars, abusive. The women were the stronger morally, spiritually, emotionally, and half the time physically. And while the book has a nice spiritual edge to it - the one person who is identified with faith is of course the legalistic, slightly dense one of the group. So, for me it's a mixed bag - great writing with a little preachiness and harshness that diluted the strength of the book overall.