Carolina Courage (The Holts Series, 3)

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Summary: The HOLTS Volume 3
Review: CAROLINA COURAGE - Volume Three -1893. Clouds with silver linings and bright futures may
vanish in a family's ordeal and a nation's shame -- unless the indomitable spirit of the Holt family can uphold a nation's
promise. Starry-eyed, ambitious Tim Holt, son of Oregon Senator Toby Holt, has bought a failing San Francisco
newspaper when he accept the challenge of covering one last Illinois story: the great Pullman strike, now terror and
treachery may cost Tim Holt his newspaper and his life... and keep his father blind to the enemy who has charmed his way into the heart of Eulalia Holt, matriarch of the clan. And Peter Blake's daring may lead to ruin when his mother's
fortune suddenly depends on a wild, high-stakes automobile race...

Rating:
Summary: Decent, but not the best of the series.
Review: For me, this is the book that led to the problems the Wagons West/Holts series had at the end. By no longer having one central character, they weakened the series. Janessa is a wonderful character, and deserved to have a book featuring her, but the series would have been better off in the long run focusing on Tim Holt.

This novel does a wonderful job reflecting what it was like being a Cherokee in the 1890's, as well as dealing with the problems that came with malaria.

Still, it is one a reader can safely pass over if need be.