Between Two Shores

Kade Family Saga #3

by Laurel Mouritsen

This beautiful pioneer story continues the breathtaking drama of the Kade family as they move west with the saints. James lives the ecstasy and agony of young love in an unyielding desert, while sister Elizabeth welters in shattered dreams back in Nauvoo where she has chosen to remain.

Genres: Audiobook, Lds

370 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Michelle Llewellyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is merely OK because it's a rewritten, reformatted book previously published by Mouritsen in 1997 under the title For Love and Zion a lazy move by the author.
I started reading Between Two Shores and quickly realized I'd read this book before while waiting for this very volume in the series to come out! I had to stop and make sure I had the right book.
Yes, it's the same book but with a few minor changes. For example in For Love and Zion the family is called Lydia and Christian Kent not Kade and there's some paragraph and sentence structure changes in the first two chapters of Between Two Shores then it appears Mouritsen just gave up and stuck the rest of the original For Love and Zion manuscript in because, except for the family name change everything else, word for word is exactly the same book.
So I was kinda dissapointed when Volume 3 in the series came out and we were cheated out of a new, original story to read. I've noticed other LDS authors, like Anita Stansfield, do the same thing-sticking whole chapters from previous books in the next edition of a series, thinking it will help the reader. It doesn't. It's cheap and lazy and the reader quickly gets bored and returns the book to the shelf. So, save yourself some time, skip this volume and keep going. The series gets better with books 4 and 5, trust me.

[Swhe641200 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[B Simmons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of the series - I liked this one a bit more than the other 4.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great look at what the early life of the saints might have been like.

[Karna Bosman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm learning a lot of history that I have not heard of before.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this story.

Content: clean

[Sal4gal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series ❤️

[Nicole Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the Kade Family Saga books!

[Emma Vaillincourt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one was my favorite! The beginning of the book made me cry. I am almost done with the series and this one was by far the best! I loved reading about Elizabeth and James growing and their early adulthood.

[Dorry Lou · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Kade family have finally made it to the Salt Lake valley. Their daughter Elizabeth stays behind with her husband. He doesn't treat her well and when her brother James stopped in Nauvoo on his way to medical school, he and the husband have some problems. James wants Elizabeth who has a child by now to leave, but she won't. The characters in the book are written to hold your interest. I like the fact that the book has a lot of history......I am on vol. 4 now.

[Michele Nell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not one to stop reading a series unless I REALLY don't like it. This had a few more twists and I look foward to find out the series ultimately ends. Fairly redictable but a fun quick read.