Beside Still Waters

Kade Family Saga #4

by Laurel Mouritsen

Jessica Scott of Illinois is waylaid in the 1870s among the Mormons in Utah while on a railroad trip to California. Alone and seeking assistance from her relatives, whose religious beliefs she abhors, nineteen-year-old Jessica gets more than she bargained for in the person of her cousin of the same age, Ethan Kade, as they struggle to overcome their differences and face perils together at the Running W Ranch.

Genres: Audiobook

394 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2006

Reviews

[Swhe641200 · Rating 3 out of 5]

2nd Ward Bookgroup

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best in the series so far, in my opinion.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great! I can’t wait to read the last one.

[Nicole Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably my favorite of the Kade Family Saga books with all the adventure on the cattle ranch.

[Sal4gal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series ❤️

[Emma Vaillincourt · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was a bit disappointed with this book. It picks up roughly 20 years after the 3rd book. With completely new characters. James and Inger are there but the book is not about them. The whole book is about Elizabeths daughter and James son, which is cool I guess but I just did not really enjoy it nearly as much as the earlier books. Christian and Lydia have passed but we get no detail about it. Jessica goes to visit the other 2 Kade siblings in the valley and there is one sentence about it. A good chunk of the book is the kids on a cattle ranch and I thought that was boring. There were some pages that I just skimmed over or skipped.
I did enjoy the process of Jessicas conversion and It also peaked my interest when they started discussing some of the original characters but that was far and few in between. I know the authors were trying to cover a large period of early church history but I was just a little sad when I picked up the 4th book and and the characters were completely different. I would have been very interested in reading about Elizabeths marriage and the death of the Kade parents. I don't need a whole book on it but it would have been nice if some of that would have been included somewhere.

[Dorry Lou · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did not enjoy this volume as much as I did the other 3. The family is in Utah and we are now with the 3rd generation of Kades. A cousin from Illinois finds herself waylaid on a railroad trip to California and ends up with these Kades. She is not happy and plans to leave as soon as possible but she slowly gets involved with the Mormon faith which she did not want to do. There was some adventure, but all in all not as good as some of Laurels books.

[Jillybean · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good series . . . This book had unfamiliar characters compared to the first three, but I still enjoyed it.

[Dora · Rating 2 out of 5]

My least favorite of this series. It is nowhere close to being as good as The Work and the Glory!