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Summary: Characterization woven with conflict and detail
Review: In his 3rd volume, Dean Hughes brings WWII to life for young and old readers alike. His use of detail creates picture so vivid, the words dissove into clear images. I forgot I was reading. The pages flowed into one another, soon I found myself going to the store to buy the 4th volume. If you are looking for a great heart- wrenching yet uplifting series, you found it in "Children of the Promise".
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Summary: I told you so!
Review: It took my sister and I two books to convince our baby-boomer parents to read this series. I swore to my father (who had just finished reading The Work and the Glory) that this series was ten times better! We finally convinced them to try it. Soon, we wished we'd never told them about it - we had to fight them off for our chance to read the third book! Each time, I eat, sleep and breathe these books. Gerald Lund has NOTHING on Dean Hughes!
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Summary: read this book!
Review: reading these book are alittle like eating peanuts, once you start you cant stop. this is what the war was like for every family in america during ww2.this is about your family or your next door neighbor or the family down the block. a time when you were proud to be an american. this would be a great series to give a teen, to help them learn what we were fighting for. family,home and freedom.my only problem with it was dean hughes writes to slow. i cant wait for volumn 5.
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Summary: Give in . . . just buy the whole series!
Review: Take my advice, just buy the whole series now. As I turned the last page of this book, I jumped up, ran down to the store and bought Volume 4. I was late to this series, hearing people rave about it for several years before I purchased the first one. Now I can't put them down. In Far From Home, Alex is still fighting the Nazis, holding down a command and wondering daily how he will survive and keep his men safe. Wally is still a prisoner war in the infamous Japanese P.O.W. camps. As his health violently deterioates, and the torture exceeds what he believes he is able to withstand, he wonders how he will make it to the next day, let alone to freedom at the end of the war. As the other family members face their hardships, we are once again drawn so deeply into this family we feel they are our family. Another brilliant job by Dean Hughes. Go ahead, click the BUY NOW button and save yourself the trouble of waiting for these books to come one at a time.
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Summary: This is the best book that I have ever read!
Review: The characters in children of the promise seems so real and I feel like I know them as my neighbors. I feel like I am going through their lives together. I have learned more about W.W.II from reading this book than I have from history class in high school. By the way I am from Japan and reading from the other side is quite interesting. Thank you for publishing this book, Brother Hughes! God Bless! Mamiko Pehrson, From Davie, Florida
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Summary: The way Hughes writes it's as if he were that character
Review: The Childern of the Promise Series is the bomb espicially the 3rd Vol. I love the way he writes as if he is the character himself. He writes what that character is thinking and how they feel. Once you start reading you get so caught up with the characters that you can't put down the book.For example I read each book in a day it was so good and I don't like reading. Once you your finished with the book(s) you feel like you know those characters personally, and you just want to know what's going to happen. After I was done with the second book, that night I almost prayed for Wally but then I relized it was fiction. These books also made me reliaze how difficult it was to live in that era. Hughes also does a woderful job with researching about every thing he writes. For example I gave a speach about D-Day and I used Alexes experince when he jumped out of the airplane. My reading teacher thought I had interviewed a WWII vet about that. So go out and buy the book now it will be money well spent. I'm reading it again a second time to my grandma and I'm not bored with it.
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Summary: Bravo, Brother Hughes!!
Review: The Children of the Promise books are the best books I've ever read. They've humbled me, educated me, and entertained me. Not only do I dearly love the characters, I find them believable and that is so refreshing. Often, in fiction, the "good" characters are ALWAYS good and the bad are ALWAYS bad. These characters are so refreshingly real (And I can't wait for the day when the all the Thomases are together again!) Through these books I have gained a real interest in a war and an era that I never gave much thought to before. Thank you so much for a feast. These books are truly inspiring and were no doubt inspired!P.S. Please let Wally and Lorraine get together. I have a feeling they will! Also, I'm eagerly anticipating him eating and eating and eating . .
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Summary: It was wonderful
Review: The third book of a wonderful series. It was spell binding. I couldn't put it down. A wonderful story about a family coping through World War II. A wonderful look into what the world, was going thorugh at that time.
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Summary: This Book was Excellent
Review: The third book of the series Children of the Promis is called Far From Home. The author, Dean Hughes, wrote an excellent book. I like it because it contained several different point of views during Word War Two. Also, Hughes writes in a way that lets you know exactly what each character is thinking and what tribulation they are going through. The author stated that even though the characters didn't really exist, the events really did take place. Even down to the simplest detail. For example, when the family goes to see a specific movie, the show was actually playing at that period of time.
The Thomas family are natives of Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are running a weapons plant. It gets busier and the work more strenuous. They have to keep working while trying to raise a 15-year-old, Larue, struggling to be more independent from her parents. Alex, the first son, has paratrooped into Germany. He tells the struggles of dealing with the cold and death. Alex had served a religious mission in Germany previously, and is having difficulties fighting against the people he loves. Bobbi's the next oldest. She's a nurse in the Navy at Pearl Harbor. She's waiting to hear from Richard, her boyfriend, when she learns of his ship sinking. Bobbi doesn't know what she will do if her love never returns. Next, Wally is a prisoner of war in the Phillipines. He strives to emotionally fight the hatred between the Japanese and his standards for not hating his others. While also striving to stay alive, to go home someday. Last of all is Henry Stoltz. Alex taught him and his family on his mission. So he's a friend of the family. He is back in germany working for the British Intelligence, looking for his son Peter who got lost during a refugee escape. Henry's wife and daughter are in London waiting for any news of him or Peter.
I enjoyed this book very much and I am eagerly waiting for an opportunity to read the next in the series. Again, the author has a great knowledge of everything that went on during World War Two. He wrote excellently on each of the characters and their individual trials.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST
Review: THESE BOOKS ARE RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE WORK AND THE GLORY. THEY ARE THE BEST. DEAN HUGHES IS A VERY GOOD ATHOR. HE BRINGS YOU INTO THE STORY.
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