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Storm
A McClures Magazine assignment whisks Meredith from New York City to the primitive town of Buckman's Pride in the redwood forests of northern California. Meredith has something to prove-a female journalist can achieve recognition for her work.
Meredith's big story on forest conservation takes many interesting turns. One leads her to her heart's desire, logger Thatcher Talbot. But Mr. Talbot is a man with something to hide.
Will Meredith listen when God seeks to tame her storm and direct her dainty steps? Must Meredith choose between recognition and Thatcher's strong arms?
Meredith's big story on forest conservation takes many interesting turns. One leads her to her heart's desire, logger Thatcher Talbot. But Mr. Talbot is a man with something to hide.
Will Meredith listen when God seeks to tame her storm and direct her dainty steps? Must Meredith choose between recognition and Thatcher's strong arms?
173 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Dianne Christner
23 books94 followersDianne Christner - Christian Fiction Author - writes Christian romance novels. She writes both Historicals and Amish Fiction. Raised in the Mennonite church, she brings authenticity to "The Plain City Bridesmaids" series.
She keeps a lighthearted reality blog called plaingirl romanticizing.
Her passion is reading and connecting with other readers and writers.
She keeps a lighthearted reality blog called plaingirl romanticizing.
Her passion is reading and connecting with other readers and writers.
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August 8, 2016
Storm by Diane Christner (2000, Heartsong Presents) is a Christian historical romance, set in 1899 in Buckman’s Pride, California. I read this story re-titled as Love’s Song, set to be released in October 2016 by Barbour Books. NetGalley gave me a copy of Love’s Song in exchange for an honest review.
4 stars
The Heroine
Meredith Storm Mears, the lone female writing for McClure’s Magazine in New York, is interested in “covering a subject that makes a difference in the world, writing something other than the society column, fashion reviews, or advertisements.” Storm is concerned about the logging industry depleting the forests in the West, as the East has already learned by experience the need for conservation. She approaches her editor with a request to travel by train with a photographer from Chicago to California in order to gather information and photographs to report on the logging industry there. Storm gets the approval she’s looking for, and the rest of the story is set in California.
The Hero
Thatcher Talbot is a fellow passenger on Meredith’s train trip. However, he doesn’t want to be interviewed when she’s getting story material from her train voyage. Later in the story, he turns up again at a logging camp, more personable than he first seems.
What I liked:
* Hooray! It’s a logging camp story! I enjoyed The Measure of Katie Calloway by Serena Miller and A Bride for Noah by Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith in the last year or so, and thought they were great stories.
What I didn’t like:
*Storm is unreasonably antagonistic towards Thatcher Talbot at first. At one point, she’s upset with him because he unknowingly “splattered my gown and hat with mud. You are a. . .beast!” I was a bit irritated with her; I suspect the real reason she’s angry with him is injured pride due to the refused interview. Meredith continued to be unjustifiably irritable towards him for a while, and it then seems too sudden for him to become a “man who meant everything to her.” And even after she knows how important he is to her, she is foolish in her interaction with him. I guess I just really didn’t love the romance in this story even though I really enjoyed the story otherwise.
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I am not putting another Diane Christner book on my to-read list, but that’s not a sign I disliked Storm. Rather, Christner writes Amish fiction, which I don’t read, and she has stories in several anthologies, and I’m finding I spend too time reviewing anthologies. However, I’d certainly recommend this story to fans of Christian (or clean) historical American romances.
4 stars
The Heroine
Meredith Storm Mears, the lone female writing for McClure’s Magazine in New York, is interested in “covering a subject that makes a difference in the world, writing something other than the society column, fashion reviews, or advertisements.” Storm is concerned about the logging industry depleting the forests in the West, as the East has already learned by experience the need for conservation. She approaches her editor with a request to travel by train with a photographer from Chicago to California in order to gather information and photographs to report on the logging industry there. Storm gets the approval she’s looking for, and the rest of the story is set in California.
The Hero
Thatcher Talbot is a fellow passenger on Meredith’s train trip. However, he doesn’t want to be interviewed when she’s getting story material from her train voyage. Later in the story, he turns up again at a logging camp, more personable than he first seems.
What I liked:
* Hooray! It’s a logging camp story! I enjoyed The Measure of Katie Calloway by Serena Miller and A Bride for Noah by Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith in the last year or so, and thought they were great stories.
What I didn’t like:
*Storm is unreasonably antagonistic towards Thatcher Talbot at first. At one point, she’s upset with him because he unknowingly “splattered my gown and hat with mud. You are a. . .beast!” I was a bit irritated with her; I suspect the real reason she’s angry with him is injured pride due to the refused interview. Meredith continued to be unjustifiably irritable towards him for a while, and it then seems too sudden for him to become a “man who meant everything to her.” And even after she knows how important he is to her, she is foolish in her interaction with him. I guess I just really didn’t love the romance in this story even though I really enjoyed the story otherwise.
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I am not putting another Diane Christner book on my to-read list, but that’s not a sign I disliked Storm. Rather, Christner writes Amish fiction, which I don’t read, and she has stories in several anthologies, and I’m finding I spend too time reviewing anthologies. However, I’d certainly recommend this story to fans of Christian (or clean) historical American romances.
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