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Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2)
by
Janette Oke
Book 2 of Love Comes Softly. Their family growing, Clark and Marty look to bind each other together with love and faith. Over 800,000 sold!
Paperback, 239 pages
Published
November 1st 2003
by Bethany House Publishers
(first published 1979)
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I read this book, having previously seen all the movie versions of the books in the Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke.
I enjoyed this book more than the first, but them movie seems to depart even farther from this book than the first, and there is quite a bit of liberty taken with the first book. It is almost as if one could put a disclaimer on the movie that "any similarity between this movie and the book it is based upon is coincidental."
Seeing as I think this book was better than the fi...more
I enjoyed this book more than the first, but them movie seems to depart even farther from this book than the first, and there is quite a bit of liberty taken with the first book. It is almost as if one could put a disclaimer on the movie that "any similarity between this movie and the book it is based upon is coincidental."
Seeing as I think this book was better than the fi...more
This is the second book in this series and probably the last one I will read. It was sweet, but if I have to be perfectly honest, a bit boring. I kept waiting for some sort of prairie-disaster to happen, like a fire, snow storm, or bear mauling, but no such luck. Also, I felt the author side-stepped any difficult issue. For example, one of the sons of the heroine's friends falls in love with an Indian woman. Rather than dealing with the cultural/racial implications of this union, the problem is...more
Other than the ending, this book is nothing like the movie of the same title. Not sure why Hallmark/Michael Landon Jr. deviated so far from the original story but they did. Unlike the first book, "Love Comes Softly", this book is at a much quicker pace. Missie, the two-year-old daughter of Clark's in the first book, starts off at age 5 in this book and and is 18, getting married, by the end. Again, lots of ups and downs - they end up taking care of a couple of young sisters due to a promise Mart...more
The second book in the Love Comes Softly series. After finishing the first novel I found myself aching for more. I immediately picked up this book with my hot chocolate and dug in. Started at 9:30am and finished at 2pm. Great read. Having watched the movie series I was sad to find the book completely different, but was glad to learn more about this wonderful family and watch them grow. I can't wait to start the third, but needed to shower and check email...off I go.
The second book in the "Love Comes Softly" series. I did watch the movie before reading the book and I have to say that the movie is way better.
But putting the movie aside the book was great. The relationships between the characters have developed. As a reader you can tell the love between the husband and wife. And the love that they have for all the children. Great book about a romance that everyone wants - a great husband/wife and a happy family.
"Love's Enduring Promise" opens up about two ye...more
But putting the movie aside the book was great. The relationships between the characters have developed. As a reader you can tell the love between the husband and wife. And the love that they have for all the children. Great book about a romance that everyone wants - a great husband/wife and a happy family.
"Love's Enduring Promise" opens up about two ye...more
Love's Enduring Promise is a comfortable read. I've read it half a dozen times at least since it is the second book in one of my favorite series that I read as a child. In this second novel, Marty and Clark have a family together. The first few chapters sees the birth of their first child together. The remaining chapters see their family expand even more: with Marty having more children and with the couple adopting two daughters. By the end of the book, Marty has seen three of her daughters (Mis...more
After reading this second book in the series, I'm calling it quits. I just can't make myself read the remaining 10 books in this series. This second book has been very repetitive in the sense that I'm continually reading about a new couple getting married and more babies being born. There really isn't a great deal of conflict or resolution in this book--more like just a day-to-day account of life in their new little settlement out West. This book was ok enough to finish, but I'm just not falling...more
Jun 08, 2011
Julie (Mom2lnb)
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4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Fans of Frontier or Feel-Good Stories
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"4.5 stars" I'm pretty certain I read Love's Enduring Promise years ago in my teens, but prior to picking it up again, I couldn't really remember a thing about the story. As a consequence and knowing that this was a continuation of Clark and Marty's relationship, I was kind of expecting an epic love story which isn't quite what this novel is all about. The book opens about two years after the ending of Love Comes Softly. It is still primarily about Clark, Marty, and their...more
"4.5 stars" I'm pretty certain I read Love's Enduring Promise years ago in my teens, but prior to picking it up again, I couldn't really remember a thing about the story. As a consequence and knowing that this was a continuation of Clark and Marty's relationship, I was kind of expecting an epic love story which isn't quite what this novel is all about. The book opens about two years after the ending of Love Comes Softly. It is still primarily about Clark, Marty, and their...more
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Just as it drove me nuts in the first book, the uneducated English they that every character aside from 1 or 2 (and those 1 or 2 are very minor characters) speak. If I were to write a sentence like this: "Them there young'uns bein' without enything fittin' 'nuf to be wearin' to thet new school to get edjucated.", it wouldn't be any more irritating than what you would read in this book. And it's constant. Not just on occasion.
Also, there is no plot in this books. Maybe little, tiny boring plots...more
Also, there is no plot in this books. Maybe little, tiny boring plots...more
Book two to the series. I watched some of the movies an thought it would be fun to read the books. Unfortunately I think it would have been much more interesting to read the books before I saw the movies.
Love's Enduring Promise has several sub-plots, but no main plot. Given that the author and the author's husband both have ministerial backgrounds, I found it interesting that one of the book's sub-plots included the first hired community pastor ("the highly trained Rev. Watson") being a mismatch for the congregation. The church committee members met with Watson and released him, excused him from the pulpit (chapter 38). This is a true-to-life incident that does happen from time to time. Of the t...more
I LOVED the first book. I feel that that even though this one was adorable, heartwarming and a good, easy read it was lacking in general plot. But that's okay, I feel that this book was more of a, "Okay, so this is what happened between the beginning of the series and what's going to happen next." because the next book, (Missie's journey west) was greatly detailed and enthralling. But they couldn't very well jump from the first book into that one saying, "So now Missie is 19, sorry that you miss...more
Another great story in the Love Comes Softly series. I listened to this book on tape.
This book's time line moved a lot more quickly than the first book, which was a bit confusing at first but actually made the story move along quite nicely. Marty and Clark have established their relationship and are now raising their own family. Along the way there are more babies in the Davis family as well as in the neighborhood. The Davis' also take in two more neighbor girls who's pa left town.
The story is...more
This book's time line moved a lot more quickly than the first book, which was a bit confusing at first but actually made the story move along quite nicely. Marty and Clark have established their relationship and are now raising their own family. Along the way there are more babies in the Davis family as well as in the neighborhood. The Davis' also take in two more neighbor girls who's pa left town.
The story is...more
This is the second in the Love Comes Softly series. Clark and Marty continue to add to their family by taking in the two Larson girls as well as their own Ellie and Luke. In this story, the children are growing up and beginning to make their own lives as Clark and Marty help to build up their community by adding a school and church, as well as a teacher and preacher. Clark builds a large new house, Clae Larson goes to normal school to become a teacher, Missie grows up and follows in Clae's path...more
Continues the story of Marty and Clark Davis. Marty and Clark now love each other and soon they get the idea to have a school and begin the task.
Next thing they know, they also get new additions to their family with the Larson sisters Nandry and Clare. Missie is starting to grow up and soon, Missie, Nandry and Clare go to school.
Throughout the book there was some cute and sad moments, even heartwarming ones too that you can't help but smile at. In the book we're also introduced some new charac...more
Next thing they know, they also get new additions to their family with the Larson sisters Nandry and Clare. Missie is starting to grow up and soon, Missie, Nandry and Clare go to school.
Throughout the book there was some cute and sad moments, even heartwarming ones too that you can't help but smile at. In the book we're also introduced some new charac...more
I was so deeply sad when I read this book because it moved way too fast, and did not give me the details I desperately craved after finishing Love Comes Softly. I still loved the story. It was a simple yet very fulfilling read, but I was hoping to get more details of those early years between Clark and Marty. I felt like Marty became seasoned and wise (like Ma Graham) over night,and I missed hearing about her struggles and learning processes. Still, this book left me with a warm heart, and a gre...more
I really enjoyed this book! I think had I read the books before I saw the movies, I'd have been disappointed a little bit in the movies (though I would still love them). I cannot wait to get book three. I didn't want to finish this book because I knew that I didn't have book 3 yet and I it felt like I was losing some great friends that I had made. The only thing that I would change, if anything, would be make Marty cry less. Yet this book is over like a 12 or 13 year span. I guess in all that ti...more
Finished this last week with my ten-year old daughter, a helpless romantic. I did not enjoy this book nearly as much as I did the first book of the series. This book felt like Janette Oke changed her formula of writing an overtly Christian book that struggled with human faults and weaknesses within a biblical framework. It seemed like she suppressed those Christian themes and simply gave us a biographical Christmas letter that brought all of the readers up-to-date about Marty's family. A disappo...more
SPOILER ALERT:: This review contains a few spoilers!!
I was very impressed with Love's Enduring Promise and for sure liked it a lot more than I did Love Come's Softly, book one in the Love Comes Softly series. I think the reason why I liked this book better than the first is there were many more characters involved, and lots more going on making the story go faster and not seem as dry. I mean in the time span of this book (which, by the way, covered around 10 or so years!) Marty had three childre...more
I was very impressed with Love's Enduring Promise and for sure liked it a lot more than I did Love Come's Softly, book one in the Love Comes Softly series. I think the reason why I liked this book better than the first is there were many more characters involved, and lots more going on making the story go faster and not seem as dry. I mean in the time span of this book (which, by the way, covered around 10 or so years!) Marty had three childre...more
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This book was wonderful, but I didn't feel the same intimate connection with the characters as I had with the first book. That is, until about the last 5 pages, then suddenly the tear-jerking emotion that I was searching for was finally manifested! I was a little disappointed with how skim-like this story was in comparison with Love Comes Softly. The time line lengthened RAPIDLY and the sheer number of characters made it nearly impossible to feel connected with any of them. So many were simply m...more
I'm in love with this family and it continues to grow! I'm especially intrigued with the person Marty is. In so many ways I'd like to be that same kind of woman--hard working, do anything for anybody, wonderful wife & mother, faithful, trys not to judge others. I find it very educational to follow the relationships this woman encounters and how she deals with each situation. Just so ya know though--I'm glad I'm alive today and I wasn't a pioneer woman.
You can totally tell that when she wrote the first book in this series that she had not planned on it being a series at all. This second book was rushed, the characters were not nearly as developed and plot shifted and changed way too suddenly. I felt rushed and disjointed. I think the only redeeming quality is that I got to see what happened to the characters from the first book in the series. That's what kept me going.
Aug 20, 2012
Kristal
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
romance lovers, canadian historical fiction lovers, christian romance lovers
Recommended to Kristal by:
Reuben's Nana
I loved the first book of the series and plan to read the whole series. I really enjoy reading about the hard times of the pioneer days in western Canada. This book wasn't as good as the first-I find that it jumped from year to year too fast. I would have liked it more if Oke slowed down the pace so I can learn more about Marty's family. Still nice and enjoyable though!
I'm enjoying these books as light reading. Possible borderline fluff, but sweet fluff. I think what I get from these books is the sense of community these fictional characters had on the frontier, and the interesting pre-tech glimpses of their domestic lives. So much like our own time, but not. Parts of this book felt rushed and overly summarized in places.
I had never read the sequel and my good neighbor informed me there are like 6 books in this series (and made to movies too!!) so I gobbled up book #2.
Side note: My neighbor (Sherri) also informed me that the movies were nothing like the book...and she was right! I watched the first two movies and they were nothing like the book, but still good!!
Side note: My neighbor (Sherri) also informed me that the movies were nothing like the book...and she was right! I watched the first two movies and they were nothing like the book, but still good!!
This one is somewhat more mechanical. It's 200 pages that takes place over ~18 years. It is enjoyable in the sense that we get to see what happens to the characters that we met in the first novel, but it doesn't leave much room for development. I'll still read the next, but I'm hoping it returns to the more simple and endearing story-telling from the first book.
Just like the first book, I LOVE this series. I ADORE the movies, but the books are SUPER in that they are more true to the time period and way of speaking for the time/place. I love the struggles of each generation of ladies to live and love during this period of time. It is probably not for everyone, but I LOVE clean, romantic fiction!!!
I grew up on Laura Ingalls Wilder, so I'm enjoying the "Love" series thus far. I have the same complaints about book #2 as I did about book #1...I feel like a lot of story lines are wrapped up too easily and long stretches of time are squeezed into very few pages. But overall, I like the series and will continue to read.
This book is about Marty and Clark Davis' children. This book is such a beautiful testament of love. Rarely do I like a second book in a series more than the first - - I absolutely LOVED this book!
This book has forever changed my definition of love. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you Janette Oke!
This book has forever changed my definition of love. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you Janette Oke!
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Janette Oke writes with a profound simplicity of what she knows best—real life, honest love, and lasting values. With over 23 million in sales, her historical novels portray the lives of early North American settlers from many walks of life and geographical settings. She also writes engaging children's stories and inspiring gift books that warm the heart.
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