A Heart Revealed is an inspirational historical romance and book number two in the Winds of Change series. If you'd like to read my review on book one, called A Hope Undaunted, click here. A Heart Revealed continues the story of the O'Connors, following Sean O'Connor. Ten long years ago, Emma Malloy fled her home of Dublin, Ireland, coming to America. She settles in Boston, trying to forget her past, where she was married to an abusive man. Set back in the 1930's (just after Katie, from the first book, is married), she finds herself falling for Sean O'Connor, the self proclaimed lifelong bachelor. Her big problem is that she ran away from her husband - no divorce - so she struggles with that. The guilt is strong, even if she was horribly abused - the awful man even burned her face! Sean too, has his struggles - will this romance ever take off, and will they find happiness together?
I really enjoyed this book! Julie Lessman is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. I'm impatiently waiting now for book 3! (grumble, grumble - is it next September yet?) The book keeps you constantly wanting to turn the page, because there is always something going on - either with Emma, or with other members of the extended O'Connor family. Most books in a series, you don't really need to have read the previous books to understand what is going on - and while this one is one of them, I recommend borrowing or buying A Hope Undaunted first before reading this one, simply because it helps you understand background characters a little more. (The author's other series, Daughters of Boston, also follows many of the same characters, and you can read that series to start off if you really want the full history! lol)
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A Heart Revealed by Julie Lessman is a paperback historical fiction book published by Revell. It is 503 pages long. The suggested cover price is $14.99, but Amazon has it available for $10.19 as of this posting. It is also available as an e-book for the Kindle and other e-readers.
I received a copy of this book in order to read it and share my thoughts on it. All opinions are my own, and not that of the author(s) or publisher.
2 comments:
STORM!!! Thank you SO much for this great review -- MUCH appreciated!!
And guess what??? A Hope Undaunted is now available for FREE download everywhere, so your readers can read it first to see if they like my style at no cost before they invest in A Heart Revealed!!
I don't know if you are prone to posting your reviews, but if you are, I am running a newsletter contest where anyone who posts a review on Amazon.com, CBD.com, Goodreads, B&N or anywhere else, gets a point for every review posted. Even just one review posted enters you into a drawing for a signed copy of Steven's story, A Trust Restored when it comes out next year. The persons who come in first and second in posting the most reviews will get a character named after them in Steven's story and the top winner will also get a $50 gift card. So if that sounds like something you'd be interested in, just sign up for my newsletter on my website and then post one review or more and let me know by forwarding me the links. BUT ... if posting reviews is NOT your thing, PLEASE do not worry about it, okay? I'm just tickled pink you reviewed it on your blog!
Hugs,
Julie
I just wanted to add that if you've never read any of Julie Lessman's other books - YOU NEED TO!!! She is HANDS DOWN my favorite author, and she once again has written a book chock full of love, humor, passion, and story, story, story!!
This is the 5th book sharing the lives of the very Irish O'Connor family (The Daughters of Boston series is the 1st three, and the Winds of Change series continues where the Daughters of Boston left off), and I just absolutely LOVE how Julie incorporates SO MUCH the lives of the characters we have grown to love from her previous books! So by the time you get to this book - A Heart Revealed - you already know and LOVE Sean and Emma before even starting the book!
This one is a bit different than all of Julie's other books - because Emma is married, there isn't the heated romantic passion right off the bat and then all throughout the book (which is kinda Julie's "thing" in all of her other books.) Sean and Emma's story shows their love blooming through friendship, but don't worry - she still gives us plenty of her trademark passion and drama through Luke and Katie and Mitch and Charity!! And don't worry - things will definitely heat up for Sean and Emma too, so don't lose heart!! :-)
The book is also full of the regular "Julie Lessman" roller coaster-like ups and downs and then of course back up again...with of course a surprise or two thrown in!! I promise - this one will be one for the KEEPER shelf - along with ALL of her other ones!! A definite must read!
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