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Alaskan Quest #3
Whispers of Winter
The unforgiving descent of Alaskan winter has Jayce Kincaid and Jacob Barringer struggling for survival after their ship is trapped in the ice floes of the Arctic. Back at Last Chance Creek, Leah and Helaina endure the long separation--Leah wondering if her children will ever know their father and Helaina longing for the chance to express her love to Jacob. When unexpected loss invades their world and tragedy looms once again, will they find the strength to trust in God's faithfulness?
263 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2006
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Tracie Peterson
249 books3,118 followersTracie Peterson is a bestselling author who writes in both historical and contemporary genres. Her novels reveal her love for research as well as her strong desire to develop emotionally meaningful characters and stories for her readers. Tracie and her family live in Montana.
pen name: Janelle Jamison
pen name: Janelle Jamison
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March 17, 2020
This is the third book in this series and the plot line from the second wrapped up halfway through this book. I have no objections to how that storyline was handled. Afterwards however it just seemed to be a bunch of random events that were happening to the characters without any real problem or issue driving the story. I have to say this was her first book I was disappointed in. I found myself skimming a lot of pages just to get through it
January 1, 2015
SUMMARY: The unforgiving descent of Alaskan winter has Jayce Kincaid and Jacob Barringer struggling for survival after their ship is trapped in the ice floes of the Arctic. Back at Last Chance Creek, Leah and Helaina endure the long separation--Leah wondering if her children will ever know their father and Helaina longing for the chance to express her love to Jacob.
When unexpected loss invades their world and tragedy looms once again, will they find the strength to trust in God's faithfulness?
REVIEW: Although this conclusion to the Alaskan Quest series contains many tragedies, hope is found as well in new love, coincidences, life choices, and new babies. It is nice to see new directions and stronger faith developed in each of the main characters of this series as it draws to it's conclusion. I have enjoyed this series and feel like I have become friends with the main characters. Their strengths and weaknesses are so very typical of everyday people that it is easy to identify with them. Overall an excellent series.
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Whether in the glory of summer or the whispers of winter, God has ordained our path. It doesn't mean there won't be uphill climbs or rocky roads, but it does mean we can count on Him --believe in Him -- hope on Him. We have only to trust our hearts to Him and to each other."
When unexpected loss invades their world and tragedy looms once again, will they find the strength to trust in God's faithfulness?
REVIEW: Although this conclusion to the Alaskan Quest series contains many tragedies, hope is found as well in new love, coincidences, life choices, and new babies. It is nice to see new directions and stronger faith developed in each of the main characters of this series as it draws to it's conclusion. I have enjoyed this series and feel like I have become friends with the main characters. Their strengths and weaknesses are so very typical of everyday people that it is easy to identify with them. Overall an excellent series.
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Whether in the glory of summer or the whispers of winter, God has ordained our path. It doesn't mean there won't be uphill climbs or rocky roads, but it does mean we can count on Him --believe in Him -- hope on Him. We have only to trust our hearts to Him and to each other."
March 8, 2012
The final book in the series, and one of the best! I loved the emotion, the realness, and the indepth struggles that this family had to endure. It was a great ending to a wonderful series. I'm going to miss these characters!
June 22, 2017
Have I got a beach read for you today! The Alaskan Quest series by Tracie Peterson is full of suspense, romance, and action. Today I am featuring Whispers of Winter. Book three of the series. You can find the review for Summer of the Midnight Sun which is book one of the series here.
Synopsis:
Leah Kincaid and Helaina are waiting to hear back from Jayce Kincaid and Jacob Barringer. Jayce is Leah’s husband and Jacob her brother. Helaina wants a relationship with Jacob but does he? At the end of book two Jayce and Jacob finally got a chance to go to the Arctic. One problem this trip has become rife with problems and it left them stranded on an island out in the Arctic Ocean. Leah prays for their safe return to their family. Karen and Adrik (Leah and Jacob’s adoptive parents) come to visit. While they are visiting, Leah finally gets new about the safe return of Jayce and Jacob. Adrik suggests that they return to Last Chance Creek to work for the railroad. This move comes with a tragedy. How will this affect Karen and Adrik’s family? How will Leah and Jacob’s families be impacted?
My Thoughts:
I enjoyed Whispers of Winter. Tracie Peterson has a way of keeping readers interested in her characters by challenging them throughout the book. Leah and Helaina waiting for word of whether Jayce and Jacob survived a number of incidents. My only disappointment was the tragedy that happened early in the story. The loose ends were tied up, but I felt that the story should have ended sooner. The story did have lots of action and suspense.
I have always enjoyed Tracie’s books and will highly recommend them. This series was full of themes of family, love, patience, and hope.
Synopsis:
Leah Kincaid and Helaina are waiting to hear back from Jayce Kincaid and Jacob Barringer. Jayce is Leah’s husband and Jacob her brother. Helaina wants a relationship with Jacob but does he? At the end of book two Jayce and Jacob finally got a chance to go to the Arctic. One problem this trip has become rife with problems and it left them stranded on an island out in the Arctic Ocean. Leah prays for their safe return to their family. Karen and Adrik (Leah and Jacob’s adoptive parents) come to visit. While they are visiting, Leah finally gets new about the safe return of Jayce and Jacob. Adrik suggests that they return to Last Chance Creek to work for the railroad. This move comes with a tragedy. How will this affect Karen and Adrik’s family? How will Leah and Jacob’s families be impacted?
My Thoughts:
I enjoyed Whispers of Winter. Tracie Peterson has a way of keeping readers interested in her characters by challenging them throughout the book. Leah and Helaina waiting for word of whether Jayce and Jacob survived a number of incidents. My only disappointment was the tragedy that happened early in the story. The loose ends were tied up, but I felt that the story should have ended sooner. The story did have lots of action and suspense.
I have always enjoyed Tracie’s books and will highly recommend them. This series was full of themes of family, love, patience, and hope.
August 22, 2018
This book slays you with the first sentence. Shocking and saddening, the first words leave you and the characters heartbroken and changed for the remainder of the book. After this, things get better. The story of Jayce and Jacob is very interesting. Then there are happy times and the book lulls you into a false sense of security. You are reading, thinking this part sounds very much like a happy ending, when BAM we dive back down into the dark. The characters take a bunch more hits before the story is done. I feel like I can't say too much without giving away too many spoilers, but I will say that the characters in the story take some serious hits at the end of this book. I really enjoyed Ashlie's storyline toward the end. The ending was a good one. Everything is settled and happy, and it is a good place to leave Leah and Jacob. However, this did feel like a book of two parts. As I said the first half resolved all of the previous drama and put you in a place that was so well established that the story could have ended there very easily. However, that plot portion was not enough for a full book, so it seemed as though the extra drama was added onto the end in order to make the book longer. I appreciate learning more about their futures, but a story feels more complete when the issues resolved at the end of the book are the sequences that span over the entire series. I still enjoyed reading the books despite them being quite dark at times. I only recommend the series if you have the gumption to stand against a barrage of awful happenings with the characters.
August 15, 2012
Leah Barringer and her brother, Jacob, have come to love the rugged Alaskan Territory they call home. But when Jacob determines to join an arctic expedition, Leah realizes her heart yearns for more than this solitary existence.
The unexpected arrival of Jayce Kincaid, the man who spurned her ten years before, awakens feelings that Leah would much prefer to leave buried. As Jayce sets out to prove he’s a changed man, Leah cannot deny the effect he once again has upon her. But the appearance of a young investigator casts a cloud over Jayce’s past…and over Leah’s dreams for the future
Loved this series, I would recommend it to the ladies.
The unexpected arrival of Jayce Kincaid, the man who spurned her ten years before, awakens feelings that Leah would much prefer to leave buried. As Jayce sets out to prove he’s a changed man, Leah cannot deny the effect he once again has upon her. But the appearance of a young investigator casts a cloud over Jayce’s past…and over Leah’s dreams for the future
Loved this series, I would recommend it to the ladies.
December 15, 2009
This book kept me on my toes the entire time and I really enjoyed it the suspense kept me wondering what was going to happen next and I am planning on reading it again maybe over winter break or maybe not depending on what I get for christmas such as a new book ~wink~ ~wink~
May 7, 2021
Predictable and every time there is a conflict, it feels like it is resolved abruptly, but a sweet ending to this series. I loved the characters and the books have made me want to book a flight to Alaska!
May 27, 2021
A loss, resettling, new love, a scare, new life
In this last book of the Alaska series, we see Ashlie, Karen and Adrik's youngest, go off to be with an elderly cousin in Seattle. The woman, childless and alone (and well off financially) sends her to, essentially, high school. She meets a young doctor studying to be a surgeon, they fall in love, and eventually, she decides to be a nurse. Her dad, knowing there is a young man in the family who is coming to Alaska, arranges secretly for him to escort Ashlie home for a Christmas visit to surprise his wife Karen.
Karen, who has a gift for caring for those in need and for hospitality, is quietly busy cooking and preparing for the holiday, when Adrik is late home for supper. The wait turns out to be worth it for Karen & the family, as Adrik surprises them with Ashlie. It turns out to be a good thing. Karen collapses and never wakens afrer having a severe headache all day. She goes to the Lord having seen her daughter. Ashlie, thinking it should be her job to look after the family with her mother gone, is finally convinced to go back to Seattle. Helaina amd Leah are there to help, and Leah and her brother Jacob are adopted siblings to Ashlie and her 2 younger brothers Oliver and Christopher.
Adrik withdraws into his work with Jason, Jayce, and his sons trying to help. The boys stay close to home, and when they do see their dad, he seems distant. The men manage to help Adrik realize this. When they finish the trip. The boys especially want the familiarity of the family home in Ketchikan, where they (and Jacob and Leah) grew up. And so they conclude their business with the railroad and all 3 families move back to Ketchikan.
Helaina had run into a man claiming to be selling some of the Tsar's jewels to effect the royal family's extraction from the Bolsheviks. Communism has triumphed in much of Russia, and hatred of the aristocracy, especially the royals, has led to many deaths (historically, in this era, Lenin consolidated his power, and even loyal Communists were executed if they were suspected of being counter-revolutionaries; in a time when bearing false witness against a neighbor lessened suspicion on the one doing the lying, people turned even family members in to the KGB. This bit of history is well known to some, but I have heard this, as a kid, from the lips of the old people in my town who had actually fled, some of them Communist Party loyalists until they saw the horrors of people turning anyone they disliked in to the KGB, knowing their next stop, if they survived interrogation, was a Siberian gulag). Helaina invites the man to share dinner with them but soon, Adrik becomes suspicious. He has heard of con men using this this ruse. Helaina asks her brother Stanley for more info to verify.
On the way to Seattle to drop Ashlie off, she sees the con man on the ship. He demands she divert attention on leaving the ship so he can escape, and threatens her if she tells anyone. She tells, he's nabbed.
Jayce and Jacob have started a mercantile at the docks. Jacob and Helaina have fixed up a living space above the store.
One day, a man comes in close to closing time. He tells them he bas a mercantile, but it's in a boom town gone bust, and his partner has passed away. He has decided to return to the continental US and makes an arrangement to sell his merchandise to be shipped to Ketchikan once the men have approved it. It is crated but open when they arrive, and they manage to inspect the goods, approve them, and oversee the shipment. They are asked if they want to insure it, something new, and after learning more, they do insure the cargo.
Leah is pregnant again. The twins are toddlers now. The women receive a wire saying that the men will be on the Princess Sophia and what day is estimated for arrival.
Then the families get another blow. The loss of Karen has them all still mourning, though healing, when news comes that the Princess Sophia has sunk but rescuers are on the way. Alaskan weather is changeable and vicious, however, and the ship sinks in anstormnthat is so severe that the lifeboats can't even be deployed.
The news is devastating, of course. Leah and Helaina have nearly lost their husbands once, to a shipwreck and marooning, for around a year before they were found. There had been the episode when first Helaina, then Leah, were kidnapped by Jayce's evil twin Chase, and Leah thought Chase had also imprisoned Jayce and Jacob. And what Chase had done to Leah had threatened to break her and Jayce apart, one way or another. This, then, is too much to bear. They temporarily, possibly permanently, close the mercantile, their grief at hearing of the loss of the ship, oassengers, and crew on which their husbands were supposed to be sailing has left Leah and Helaina feeling lost and reeling in grief.
God has worked, however, and the surprise is such that Leah ends up in early labor, then on bedrest. When the baby insists on coming early, there is an unexpected helper at the birth of little Karen Kincaid.
In this last book of the Alaska series, we see Ashlie, Karen and Adrik's youngest, go off to be with an elderly cousin in Seattle. The woman, childless and alone (and well off financially) sends her to, essentially, high school. She meets a young doctor studying to be a surgeon, they fall in love, and eventually, she decides to be a nurse. Her dad, knowing there is a young man in the family who is coming to Alaska, arranges secretly for him to escort Ashlie home for a Christmas visit to surprise his wife Karen.
Karen, who has a gift for caring for those in need and for hospitality, is quietly busy cooking and preparing for the holiday, when Adrik is late home for supper. The wait turns out to be worth it for Karen & the family, as Adrik surprises them with Ashlie. It turns out to be a good thing. Karen collapses and never wakens afrer having a severe headache all day. She goes to the Lord having seen her daughter. Ashlie, thinking it should be her job to look after the family with her mother gone, is finally convinced to go back to Seattle. Helaina amd Leah are there to help, and Leah and her brother Jacob are adopted siblings to Ashlie and her 2 younger brothers Oliver and Christopher.
Adrik withdraws into his work with Jason, Jayce, and his sons trying to help. The boys stay close to home, and when they do see their dad, he seems distant. The men manage to help Adrik realize this. When they finish the trip. The boys especially want the familiarity of the family home in Ketchikan, where they (and Jacob and Leah) grew up. And so they conclude their business with the railroad and all 3 families move back to Ketchikan.
Helaina had run into a man claiming to be selling some of the Tsar's jewels to effect the royal family's extraction from the Bolsheviks. Communism has triumphed in much of Russia, and hatred of the aristocracy, especially the royals, has led to many deaths (historically, in this era, Lenin consolidated his power, and even loyal Communists were executed if they were suspected of being counter-revolutionaries; in a time when bearing false witness against a neighbor lessened suspicion on the one doing the lying, people turned even family members in to the KGB. This bit of history is well known to some, but I have heard this, as a kid, from the lips of the old people in my town who had actually fled, some of them Communist Party loyalists until they saw the horrors of people turning anyone they disliked in to the KGB, knowing their next stop, if they survived interrogation, was a Siberian gulag). Helaina invites the man to share dinner with them but soon, Adrik becomes suspicious. He has heard of con men using this this ruse. Helaina asks her brother Stanley for more info to verify.
On the way to Seattle to drop Ashlie off, she sees the con man on the ship. He demands she divert attention on leaving the ship so he can escape, and threatens her if she tells anyone. She tells, he's nabbed.
Jayce and Jacob have started a mercantile at the docks. Jacob and Helaina have fixed up a living space above the store.
One day, a man comes in close to closing time. He tells them he bas a mercantile, but it's in a boom town gone bust, and his partner has passed away. He has decided to return to the continental US and makes an arrangement to sell his merchandise to be shipped to Ketchikan once the men have approved it. It is crated but open when they arrive, and they manage to inspect the goods, approve them, and oversee the shipment. They are asked if they want to insure it, something new, and after learning more, they do insure the cargo.
Leah is pregnant again. The twins are toddlers now. The women receive a wire saying that the men will be on the Princess Sophia and what day is estimated for arrival.
Then the families get another blow. The loss of Karen has them all still mourning, though healing, when news comes that the Princess Sophia has sunk but rescuers are on the way. Alaskan weather is changeable and vicious, however, and the ship sinks in anstormnthat is so severe that the lifeboats can't even be deployed.
The news is devastating, of course. Leah and Helaina have nearly lost their husbands once, to a shipwreck and marooning, for around a year before they were found. There had been the episode when first Helaina, then Leah, were kidnapped by Jayce's evil twin Chase, and Leah thought Chase had also imprisoned Jayce and Jacob. And what Chase had done to Leah had threatened to break her and Jayce apart, one way or another. This, then, is too much to bear. They temporarily, possibly permanently, close the mercantile, their grief at hearing of the loss of the ship, oassengers, and crew on which their husbands were supposed to be sailing has left Leah and Helaina feeling lost and reeling in grief.
God has worked, however, and the surprise is such that Leah ends up in early labor, then on bedrest. When the baby insists on coming early, there is an unexpected helper at the birth of little Karen Kincaid.
August 16, 2021
A satisfying conclusion to the three book series.
I enjoyed getting to know the characters and found their adventures, if that's what you'd call them, quite exciting. I don't think I would be able to withstand the difficult life in Alaska back then especially the weather in the winter months.
I felt as though I got an accurate taste of what life was like and the daily struggles. What really hit me was the way that people counted on each other to survive. Not only physically but emotionally. I couldn't imagine how anyone could survive without faith in our Lord.
If you enjoy realistic historical fiction you'll want to pick up this series.
I enjoyed getting to know the characters and found their adventures, if that's what you'd call them, quite exciting. I don't think I would be able to withstand the difficult life in Alaska back then especially the weather in the winter months.
I felt as though I got an accurate taste of what life was like and the daily struggles. What really hit me was the way that people counted on each other to survive. Not only physically but emotionally. I couldn't imagine how anyone could survive without faith in our Lord.
If you enjoy realistic historical fiction you'll want to pick up this series.
December 31, 2019
The third book in the trilogy is arguably the best of the 3. Things are finally looking up, Jace and Jacob have settled in with their wives and all seems well. However, the last shipwreck kept it from being a 4 star rating. By this point we understand the perils of the Alaskan Wilderness. There have been 2 vessels to have sunk in this trilogy, why not make it a trifecta. But I'm a sucker for a happy ending, and the naming of one of the children "Karen" after the dearly departed was beyond sweet. Still a good adventure and sweet romance to carry the series.
October 6, 2017
So as great as this book is my life is hectic right now and I have no time to finish reading this book. I got almost half way through and just had to stop not because it was bad or there was no plot. It's just that there are other books that I wanted to read and had forgotten about this one and now it is due at the library. I most likely will finish it another time but for now I have not read this book completely. :(
*Note: I still highly recommend this book to people.
*Note: I still highly recommend this book to people.
September 11, 2020
I think this was a fitting end to what ended up being a fairly suspenseful series. At first, I thought there was *too* much of sadness in the book, but then I remembered that sometimes life holds a *lot* of sadness. But, there are definitely also moments of quiet joy to be found (in life, as well as the book!).
I liked the consistent message that was found throughout the book. God is good, even if circumstances aren't.
I liked the consistent message that was found throughout the book. God is good, even if circumstances aren't.
July 4, 2017
This was an amazing read for me! Tracie does such a good job portraying challenges of living in an almost arctic environment. She protrayes the close bond of a family and their ups and downs. This book will definitely be a re-read for me.
February 12, 2021
Do yourself a favor and read the Yukon Quest series and then this series. Loved these books so much. Probably my favorite series by Tracie Peterson. I would not have enjoyed these as much had I not read Yukon first.
August 15, 2014
Loved the whole series
June 21, 2023
I loved this quote so I had to put it here:
“𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙃𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙪𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙢—𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙢—𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙢. 𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙃𝙞𝙢 ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧.”
I loved this series, I loved the characters and their stories. Tracie got me again, as always, her books are great. I love how she also puts God and christianity in her book in a great way, it’s not forced His’s there for each action. This book in particular was not my favorite, since Jayce and Jacob came home from Regina the story got boring with things happening here and there. I was still great to read but it was more simple. But the ending was beautiful, I almost cried.
“𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙃𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙪𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙢—𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙢—𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙢. 𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙃𝙞𝙢 ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧.”
I loved this series, I loved the characters and their stories. Tracie got me again, as always, her books are great. I love how she also puts God and christianity in her book in a great way, it’s not forced His’s there for each action. This book in particular was not my favorite, since Jayce and Jacob came home from Regina the story got boring with things happening here and there. I was still great to read but it was more simple. But the ending was beautiful, I almost cried.
September 20, 2025
Under the Northern Lights by Tracie Peterson is filled with a lot of emotions, unexpected events that kept the pages turning to see what the remarkable characters were going to face next. Peterson’s words flowed easily despite the sadness at times as the characters had grown in their walk with God and their faith shined through even though they struggled at times. I loved how Leah’s love for Karen’s children gave them new hope and determined to continue their mother’s legacy of faith. A wonderful conclusion to the Alaskan Quest series.
July 27, 2024
So many errors!
I enjoyed this series! I also really like Tracie Peterson’s books. But this series needs to be re-edited! There are so many typos! The wrong character’s names are used in several places, paragraphs are repeated twice, paragraphs are broken up in odd places, and the book will change to different people without any notice (nothing notating the change). It made this entire series difficult to read.
I enjoyed this series! I also really like Tracie Peterson’s books. But this series needs to be re-edited! There are so many typos! The wrong character’s names are used in several places, paragraphs are repeated twice, paragraphs are broken up in odd places, and the book will change to different people without any notice (nothing notating the change). It made this entire series difficult to read.
February 4, 2025
Continuing saga of friends/family living in various parts of Alaska during the time the railroad was being built; things were a bit more primitive. Not as good as some of authors Alaska books. Story took the reader through cold climate and hardship, family relationships, grief and loss. Many repetitive references to faith in God (which I do have faith in God but this seemed almost like simplistic overkill). Did not have the emotional depth I was expecting.
October 28, 2020
This book concludes Tracie Peterson's Alaskan Quest trilogy. I'm going to miss Leah and Jayce Kincaid, Jacob Barringer, Helaina Beecham, and their friends and neighbors in frontier Alaska in the early years of the 20th century.
The three books comprise a saga of love, loss, danger, courage, faith, and endurance that will not be soon forgotten.
** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED **
The three books comprise a saga of love, loss, danger, courage, faith, and endurance that will not be soon forgotten.
** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED **
November 19, 2022
Christian Historical Romance
Such tragedies these families suffered through!! But God is ALWAYS faithful, even if we are faithless or sinning.
The narration was very good, but EVERY chapter change, there was way too long of a pause and I had to keep looking at my phone screen to make sure it was still playing!
Such tragedies these families suffered through!! But God is ALWAYS faithful, even if we are faithless or sinning.
The narration was very good, but EVERY chapter change, there was way too long of a pause and I had to keep looking at my phone screen to make sure it was still playing!
September 13, 2023
Gods Love
This is the last book in this series, when I started the first one I it took a bit to get into it, but once I didn't I couldn't put it down. All three books are great, I love how she weaves God's words, promises and love in them. Looking forward to reading more if her books.
This is the last book in this series, when I started the first one I it took a bit to get into it, but once I didn't I couldn't put it down. All three books are great, I love how she weaves God's words, promises and love in them. Looking forward to reading more if her books.
August 22, 2024
Phew! This one was hard to get through! As others have said, the book was all buttoned up perfectly halfway through, but then proceeded with more drama and more tragedy/heartbreak. I had to stop for a month or so because I just couldn’t take any more of it, but picked it up again recently and finished. So glad it ended well and with all the main characters in tact.
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September 17, 2017
Another wonderful, godly story
I love reading Tracy Peterson's books. Although they take me places I've never been, they also include people and situations that are very real.
I only hope that one day I will be able to write books that or is powerfully Christian as hers.
I love reading Tracy Peterson's books. Although they take me places I've never been, they also include people and situations that are very real.
I only hope that one day I will be able to write books that or is powerfully Christian as hers.
November 24, 2019
This was seriously a emotional and heartfelt book that really displayed the character personalities and emotions. Tracie Peterson is one of my favourite authors and I have sooooooo many of her books. It is a great idea to making a sequel series to the Youkon Quest
April 12, 2020
Excellent frontier adventure, realistic, yet hopeful.
This story has many twists and nail biting moments but did not end in despair. Author has a very natural way of incorporating God into everyday life.
This story has many twists and nail biting moments but did not end in despair. Author has a very natural way of incorporating God into everyday life.
May 25, 2021
Her writing can hold your attention.
But
This book and/or series of books has far too many negative parts. It kind of made me dread what new possible problem the characters were going to have to ensure.... Just way too much of that.
But
This book and/or series of books has far too many negative parts. It kind of made me dread what new possible problem the characters were going to have to ensure.... Just way too much of that.
December 28, 2022
Wonderful Series
It is a very good story! So many events! You get threw one and something else happens! It also has a bible based Faith! I will be reading many more of Tracie's books! Thank you for good wholesome reading!!!!
It is a very good story! So many events! You get threw one and something else happens! It also has a bible based Faith! I will be reading many more of Tracie's books! Thank you for good wholesome reading!!!!
January 31, 2025
Like the first two books in the trilogy, this continued its momentum and was a good read. Sad to have it come to an end.
This book was packed with faith, adventure, and lots of excitement that I did not see coming! Very well written.
This book was packed with faith, adventure, and lots of excitement that I did not see coming! Very well written.
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