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Hearts on the Rails #6
Orphan Train Disaster
It’s 1911 and Lily’s plans for her factory are not progressing as fast as she would like. Maria, her sister Rosa, and friend Leonie are still working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Maria and Conrad have agreed it’s pointless finding new jobs when they will soon be joining Lily’s factory. Rosa can think of nothing but her upcoming marriage and Leonie worries how she is going to look after her four siblings when their mother falls very ill.
Frieda is fighting barriers at the hospital. It seems some doctors believe being female and becoming a doctor are not compatible despite her achieving high marks in the recent exams. Will she be allowed to qualify or have her dreams come to a standstill.
After Alice’s experience, Lily is having major doubts about sending children on the orphan trains. But when a major disaster happens, does she have any choice?
Frieda is fighting barriers at the hospital. It seems some doctors believe being female and becoming a doctor are not compatible despite her achieving high marks in the recent exams. Will she be allowed to qualify or have her dreams come to a standstill.
After Alice’s experience, Lily is having major doubts about sending children on the orphan trains. But when a major disaster happens, does she have any choice?
- GenresHistorical Fiction
378 pages, Paperback
Published April 9, 2020
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About the author
Rachel Wesson
112 books358 followersRachel Wesson was born in Kilkenny, Ireland but considers herself to be from the capital, Dublin as that's where she spent most of her life. Her dad brought Rachel and her two sisters out every Saturday to give their mother a break. He took them to the library and for ice-cream after. It took a long time for her sisters to forgive her for the hours she spent choosing her books!
She grew up driving everyone nuts asking them questions about what they did during the War or what side they were on in the 1916 rising etc. Finally her Granny told her to write her stories down so people would get the pleasure of reading them. In fact what Granny meant was everyone would get some peace while Rachel was busy writing!
When not writing, or annoying relatives, Rachel was reading. Her report cards from school commented on her love of reading especially when she should have been learning. Seems you can't read Great Expectations in Maths. After a doomed love affair and an unpleasant bank raid during which she defended herself with a tea tray, she headed to London for a couple of years. (There is a reason she doesn't write romance!). She never intended staying but a chance meeting with the man of her dreams put paid to any return to Ireland. Having spent most of her career in the City, she decided something was missing. Working in the City is great but it's a young person's dream. Having three children you never see isn't good for anyone. So she packed in the job and started writing. Thanks to her amazing readers, that writing turned into a career far more exciting and rewarding than any other.
Rachel lives in Surrey with her husband and three children, two boys and a girl. When not reading, writing or watching films for "research" purposes, Rachel likes to hang out with her family. She also travels regularly back home - in fact she should have shares in BA and Aerlingus.
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October 7, 2021
Come on, whasn't there enough tragety in this series without sending them on the Titanic?
January 23, 2021
I found it disappointing
I’m six books into the series and thought I was accustomed to the author’s abrupt conclusions to parts of the story. Lily’s husband Charlie has been mentioned constantly through the series. The fact that the character probably actually has 12 lines in the entire series in mind boggling.
Spoiler alert
Lily is accompanied by Tommy and Mini Mike and are constantly part of FIVE BOOKS. The way the author kills TWO big characters with one casual line is actually a tad insulting. The author takes the time to build at least a dozen characters that you become interested in and then they’re gone. The first book centered around Mr Oaks and we never heard about him again. Another book Maura was a big part of the plot and she’s gone. I found the author’s casual use and easily discarded characters to be a rather lazy use of plot device. It would probably flow better as individual short stories or novellas rather than a continuing series. The series started as a promising idea and I’m now frustrated and disappointed. I wish I had saved my money.
I’m six books into the series and thought I was accustomed to the author’s abrupt conclusions to parts of the story. Lily’s husband Charlie has been mentioned constantly through the series. The fact that the character probably actually has 12 lines in the entire series in mind boggling.
Spoiler alert
Lily is accompanied by Tommy and Mini Mike and are constantly part of FIVE BOOKS. The way the author kills TWO big characters with one casual line is actually a tad insulting. The author takes the time to build at least a dozen characters that you become interested in and then they’re gone. The first book centered around Mr Oaks and we never heard about him again. Another book Maura was a big part of the plot and she’s gone. I found the author’s casual use and easily discarded characters to be a rather lazy use of plot device. It would probably flow better as individual short stories or novellas rather than a continuing series. The series started as a promising idea and I’m now frustrated and disappointed. I wish I had saved my money.
March 30, 2022
This is, so far, the last book in the "Hearts on the Rails" series.
Let's meet Leonie. She's 15 years old, and the only wage earner. Her mother is sick. Patrick and Frieda stop in once in a while to visit and give Leonie's mom pro-bono care. They haven't visited lately; things have been busy. The sick mother has her rent jacked up - I'll let you read for yourself the reason why. Leonie has 2 brothers, 6 years old, and 3 other younger siblings. Yet she is cheerful and looks on the bright side of things...most of the time, until some terrible things happen to change that.
Let's revisit Rosa and Maria and their mama and younger siblings. The death of the husband and father is still raw in their memories, esp. their mama's memory...and she still throws the blame on Maria, whose income loss due to the strike was keenly felt, but. she ignores the fact that her husband, Maria's Papa, had encouraged her to strike, he wanted her to fight, because he was injured in an unsafe workplace and it seemed to me that, in his mind, Maria was fighting for him as well as her sisters, esp. the young ones. But the loss of income meant less food, which meant when Papa got sick, he hadn't enough nourishment or strength to fight. Maria had gone ahead to see him, and he died before her mother and sister got there, so Mama also blames Maria for "stealing her last moments with her husband." And when Mama finds out she is seeing a man of mixed German-Irish background, and not someone Italian, she is almost apoplectic with rage. Her sister dating a Mafiosi is at least dating another Sicilian. Conrad is nothing but polite to her, however, and no matter how vitriolic her comments get, he remains kindness itself, no matter how much verbal abuse is heaped on him. She eventually calms down on each visit, succumbing to his gentleness and good humor. He asks permission to court and then to marry Maria. Her brother, Benito, is married, and he seems to pop in at random times, with and without his parroting wife reinforcing his insults (esp. to Maria), and does his best to stir things up for his own pleasure, and to try to rule his sisters' lives. Then the unthinkable happens, and her mother is much, much worse with Maria. What will Maria do? The situation bordered on unbearable before.
Patrick and Frieda are still at odds, each believing the other doesn't have romantic feelings towards them. When an epic tragedy occurs, killing and maiming hundreds, will this improve...or get worse as they work separately and together to deal with the overload ofnpatients from this disaster?
The new head of the Orphan Society where Alice was taken, and via which she endured so much, has improved the place as much as she can with limited resources. She and Gustav have painted the rooms to hide the grey paint on every possible wall surface. A couple orphan trains went out west recently, headed by a woman who ensured the homes were vetted, and 6 more girls are left in the orphanage. That has to change in a week. The area, once run down, is now chic, and the owner wants to tear down the building and sell to someone who wants a mansion (or whatever) in the space. One girl is old enough to have secured a position as a live in maid. The Sanctuary can help, but the new director, whose salary was paltry to begin with, will soon be jobless, on the street, and too bad about that apparently, as far as the now-closing Orphan Society is concerned.
Lily is struggling to get her factory built. Gustav and Conrad have given her a lot of info on building safety features, esp. Gustav, into the building. Would having a foreman or supervisor of sorts, a man who shares her goals for the factory, working with the construction people, make them move at a turtle's pace at least, up from their current snail's pace? I suppose, if another book comes out, we'll find out (hint, hint).
Sadly, we get the news that Tommy and Mini-Mike are no longer around to do their work finding those who most desperately need the services the Sanctuary provides, and to be a safety escort for the ladies of the Sanctuary in bad areas. The reason and method saddened me. I loved those 2 characters! I missed them this book.
Like most of the books in this series, you'll find yourself laughing, steaming angry, crying, almost devastatingly sad at points, joyful, hopeful, hopeless, and romantic. I loved Conrad's and Maria's solution to Maria's mama's objections to their marrying. My mother and MGM objected strenuously to my marriage, and my MGM never forgave me for marrying him anyway, though her reasons were hilarious to me (couldn't let her know that, but I have to admit to tweaking her a bit about them). Mom finally got used to him. Well, mostly. Most women marry a man like their father. I guess it must have been the divorce and not wanting to mary a man like my father, and Mom basically taking the place of both parents, but I married a man like my mother in a lot of ways, and like my uncle - who lived, with his son, in my MGM's house when we joined them there. So, being very like each other, they often had the agreeableness seen in 2 strange cats. When Mom had to move in with us, I had to take our son for a lot of long rides with stops at stores or cafes to talk it out because I had to work long hours to support us, and he spent all day negotiating at least one settlement between the 2 of them, and was - as I had been as a child caregiver - the only adult in the room and the youngest person in the house way too often. In that, he was much like Conrad with Maria's mama. I considered Conrad amd Maria's solution, but I couldn't do that to my MIL, who mothered me almost more than mom had. So I toughed out the fights amd had 2 people on the bride's side (my mom and her bestie, who supported me), 27 on the groom's (he had a big family and they all showed up). That was 49 years ago, so I think that, despite the fights back then (Mom went home with Jesus in 2009), God steered me right 9nnwho to marry.
BTW if Rachel Wesson wants to use any of my tale up there tp help tell us what happens to Frieda and Patrick, Lily's factory, Leonie's recovery, etc., feel free.
Let's meet Leonie. She's 15 years old, and the only wage earner. Her mother is sick. Patrick and Frieda stop in once in a while to visit and give Leonie's mom pro-bono care. They haven't visited lately; things have been busy. The sick mother has her rent jacked up - I'll let you read for yourself the reason why. Leonie has 2 brothers, 6 years old, and 3 other younger siblings. Yet she is cheerful and looks on the bright side of things...most of the time, until some terrible things happen to change that.
Let's revisit Rosa and Maria and their mama and younger siblings. The death of the husband and father is still raw in their memories, esp. their mama's memory...and she still throws the blame on Maria, whose income loss due to the strike was keenly felt, but. she ignores the fact that her husband, Maria's Papa, had encouraged her to strike, he wanted her to fight, because he was injured in an unsafe workplace and it seemed to me that, in his mind, Maria was fighting for him as well as her sisters, esp. the young ones. But the loss of income meant less food, which meant when Papa got sick, he hadn't enough nourishment or strength to fight. Maria had gone ahead to see him, and he died before her mother and sister got there, so Mama also blames Maria for "stealing her last moments with her husband." And when Mama finds out she is seeing a man of mixed German-Irish background, and not someone Italian, she is almost apoplectic with rage. Her sister dating a Mafiosi is at least dating another Sicilian. Conrad is nothing but polite to her, however, and no matter how vitriolic her comments get, he remains kindness itself, no matter how much verbal abuse is heaped on him. She eventually calms down on each visit, succumbing to his gentleness and good humor. He asks permission to court and then to marry Maria. Her brother, Benito, is married, and he seems to pop in at random times, with and without his parroting wife reinforcing his insults (esp. to Maria), and does his best to stir things up for his own pleasure, and to try to rule his sisters' lives. Then the unthinkable happens, and her mother is much, much worse with Maria. What will Maria do? The situation bordered on unbearable before.
Patrick and Frieda are still at odds, each believing the other doesn't have romantic feelings towards them. When an epic tragedy occurs, killing and maiming hundreds, will this improve...or get worse as they work separately and together to deal with the overload ofnpatients from this disaster?
The new head of the Orphan Society where Alice was taken, and via which she endured so much, has improved the place as much as she can with limited resources. She and Gustav have painted the rooms to hide the grey paint on every possible wall surface. A couple orphan trains went out west recently, headed by a woman who ensured the homes were vetted, and 6 more girls are left in the orphanage. That has to change in a week. The area, once run down, is now chic, and the owner wants to tear down the building and sell to someone who wants a mansion (or whatever) in the space. One girl is old enough to have secured a position as a live in maid. The Sanctuary can help, but the new director, whose salary was paltry to begin with, will soon be jobless, on the street, and too bad about that apparently, as far as the now-closing Orphan Society is concerned.
Lily is struggling to get her factory built. Gustav and Conrad have given her a lot of info on building safety features, esp. Gustav, into the building. Would having a foreman or supervisor of sorts, a man who shares her goals for the factory, working with the construction people, make them move at a turtle's pace at least, up from their current snail's pace? I suppose, if another book comes out, we'll find out (hint, hint).
Sadly, we get the news that Tommy and Mini-Mike are no longer around to do their work finding those who most desperately need the services the Sanctuary provides, and to be a safety escort for the ladies of the Sanctuary in bad areas. The reason and method saddened me. I loved those 2 characters! I missed them this book.
Like most of the books in this series, you'll find yourself laughing, steaming angry, crying, almost devastatingly sad at points, joyful, hopeful, hopeless, and romantic. I loved Conrad's and Maria's solution to Maria's mama's objections to their marrying. My mother and MGM objected strenuously to my marriage, and my MGM never forgave me for marrying him anyway, though her reasons were hilarious to me (couldn't let her know that, but I have to admit to tweaking her a bit about them). Mom finally got used to him. Well, mostly. Most women marry a man like their father. I guess it must have been the divorce and not wanting to mary a man like my father, and Mom basically taking the place of both parents, but I married a man like my mother in a lot of ways, and like my uncle - who lived, with his son, in my MGM's house when we joined them there. So, being very like each other, they often had the agreeableness seen in 2 strange cats. When Mom had to move in with us, I had to take our son for a lot of long rides with stops at stores or cafes to talk it out because I had to work long hours to support us, and he spent all day negotiating at least one settlement between the 2 of them, and was - as I had been as a child caregiver - the only adult in the room and the youngest person in the house way too often. In that, he was much like Conrad with Maria's mama. I considered Conrad amd Maria's solution, but I couldn't do that to my MIL, who mothered me almost more than mom had. So I toughed out the fights amd had 2 people on the bride's side (my mom and her bestie, who supported me), 27 on the groom's (he had a big family and they all showed up). That was 49 years ago, so I think that, despite the fights back then (Mom went home with Jesus in 2009), God steered me right 9nnwho to marry.
BTW if Rachel Wesson wants to use any of my tale up there tp help tell us what happens to Frieda and Patrick, Lily's factory, Leonie's recovery, etc., feel free.
January 31, 2022
Tragic but brilliant!
Audio Version - This was the final book in the series of 6 which I listened to back to back. I loved every single minute. It really is such a great series with each book getting better and better. Extremely well written and the audio narration was superb. Each story had its own tragedy but through friendship and community so much was overcome. This book dealt with a factory fire that could easily have been avoided but greed by the owners was put before the lives of the employees. Many lives were lost, mainly women, and it was difficult to listen to. Once again everyone came together to try to help rebuild a community hit by devastation. It did end a bit oddly and I wonder if any of the loose ends are addressed in another book. I will have to look. I would definitely recommend this series.
Audio Version - This was the final book in the series of 6 which I listened to back to back. I loved every single minute. It really is such a great series with each book getting better and better. Extremely well written and the audio narration was superb. Each story had its own tragedy but through friendship and community so much was overcome. This book dealt with a factory fire that could easily have been avoided but greed by the owners was put before the lives of the employees. Many lives were lost, mainly women, and it was difficult to listen to. Once again everyone came together to try to help rebuild a community hit by devastation. It did end a bit oddly and I wonder if any of the loose ends are addressed in another book. I will have to look. I would definitely recommend this series.
November 22, 2022
which of her books do I read next since I’ve finished this series
The whole series is good. I may have to read them again, one after the other since there were gaps in time when reading them as they came out. I’m sure I would like reading them again. I think I knew about the fire but this book really handled it well even though it was noted that a lot of gruesome details as reported at the time were eliminated. I like that the series ended with tying up a lot of the personal stories. This whole series is about living with the main characters who become friends. Since I had such bad remarks about the poor proofreading in the previous book, I have to add that this book was nearly perfect. Thank you.
The whole series is good. I may have to read them again, one after the other since there were gaps in time when reading them as they came out. I’m sure I would like reading them again. I think I knew about the fire but this book really handled it well even though it was noted that a lot of gruesome details as reported at the time were eliminated. I like that the series ended with tying up a lot of the personal stories. This whole series is about living with the main characters who become friends. Since I had such bad remarks about the poor proofreading in the previous book, I have to add that this book was nearly perfect. Thank you.
August 9, 2022
We’re farther away from the trains now. And 20+ years into the friendship of Lily and her once child rescues - now grown adults. Talk of her “ideas for a factory” don’t hold much for details other than the men are lazy and won’t take direction from a woman. With the apparent building of a orphanage in the middle of the country side.
Beyond the book though; I enjoyed the discovery of something factual I got to look up and learn more about. Which of course, upon reading 📖 more about Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, raised more questions like “why after the second incident of locking factory doors, didn’t the courts go back and actually charge them with the deaths, insurance fraud and perjury?”
Beyond the book though; I enjoyed the discovery of something factual I got to look up and learn more about. Which of course, upon reading 📖 more about Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, raised more questions like “why after the second incident of locking factory doors, didn’t the courts go back and actually charge them with the deaths, insurance fraud and perjury?”
April 22, 2020
Another Great Book by Rachel Wesson!
This book is a must for anybody that loves historical novels! Its obvious that the author really does her research for each book and I always learn something new! Her characters always go straight to my heart and she really brings alive a much simpler, although more difficult, way of life. I highly recommend all of her books (once I read the first one, I immediately read the rest of them!). I would suggest starting at the beginning of the Orphan Train series so you too can follow the journeys of the characters you will come to love!
This book is a must for anybody that loves historical novels! Its obvious that the author really does her research for each book and I always learn something new! Her characters always go straight to my heart and she really brings alive a much simpler, although more difficult, way of life. I highly recommend all of her books (once I read the first one, I immediately read the rest of them!). I would suggest starting at the beginning of the Orphan Train series so you too can follow the journeys of the characters you will come to love!
June 10, 2022
orphan train series
Enjoyed all your series. I cried and laughed at some the characters antics. Are you going to write about Lily factory she was building and what happened to the chiver’s. What happened to Alice? Also, did Frieda become a certified doctor. What was her specialty and did she and Patrick come back to America. It would be great to add to the stories you have built a great base too. You are amazing. I couldn’t put the series down. I read through them and slept just enough to not be tired. 😀
Enjoyed all your series. I cried and laughed at some the characters antics. Are you going to write about Lily factory she was building and what happened to the chiver’s. What happened to Alice? Also, did Frieda become a certified doctor. What was her specialty and did she and Patrick come back to America. It would be great to add to the stories you have built a great base too. You are amazing. I couldn’t put the series down. I read through them and slept just enough to not be tired. 😀
April 26, 2020
Could not but it down!
I don't normally read historical books, but Rachel's Orphan Train series has changed my reading forever. I have learned so much from this series. I have laughed, cried and cheered on for all these characters in this series. It was a rough time back in those days. We have come a long way. This series is a must read. Read in order to follow the amazing stories of the characters as they grow.
I don't normally read historical books, but Rachel's Orphan Train series has changed my reading forever. I have learned so much from this series. I have laughed, cried and cheered on for all these characters in this series. It was a rough time back in those days. We have come a long way. This series is a must read. Read in order to follow the amazing stories of the characters as they grow.
August 4, 2020
This book is the last one in this series. I liked it, but not as much as the previous books in the series. This one did not hold my attention as much. I did like following the amazing stories of the characters and how they grew throughout the series. Speaking about characters, there were a lot to keep track of. Thank goodness for my notes app on my phone. Anyway there were so many hardships the orphans had to endure and the people who had to find loving homes for them. There was sadness but yet there was happiness too. I had to keep reminding myself that some of the orphans were as young as 6 years old and what they had to experience was frightening and emotional. The books in this series not only dealt with adoption, but woman's rights in the work place, strikes, fires and treatment of immigrants. When I read books like this, I am amazed of the courage these people had to endure.
December 28, 2021
This book, the last of a series of six, chronicles the effects the Shirtwaist Fire in New York had on survivors and the city, including some of the series' usual characters. This book and the prior one seemed to take on a more somber note as life becomes more difficult and unfair for some even as others lead lives of plenty. I wish the foreshadowing had been more promising. I read these books in order and I'm glad I did.
May 4, 2022
Great Read
This was such a good book to read. It just held my interest so much I wanted to read it all in one setting. I had read the rest of the series and am sorry to see them end. I like reading anything that has historical value. I felt it might have been the beginning of women's sufferage. So many things that really happened in our history. It is a good read for anyone, I've already recommend the series to see real of my fellow readers.
This was such a good book to read. It just held my interest so much I wanted to read it all in one setting. I had read the rest of the series and am sorry to see them end. I like reading anything that has historical value. I felt it might have been the beginning of women's sufferage. So many things that really happened in our history. It is a good read for anyone, I've already recommend the series to see real of my fellow readers.
October 3, 2020
Ms. Wesson's books are fabulous... Chock full of historical details, all wrapped up with wonderful dimensional characters. This one might have topped the cake except it left so many stories unfinished... Frieda and Leonie just to name two. Not to mention lily and Charlie! Please say they'll be more books before I completely forget what I just read.
December 8, 2020
I liked this book the best of the whole series. It is about the shirtwaist factory fire. I liked the resilience of people who had suffered horrific working conditions, filthy living conditions and the daily battle to just put food on the table. Trying to make a life in a new country. I am inspired by their grit!
December 13, 2020
This book didn't have much to do with the orphan train, but it was a good book. The main part of the story dealt with the tragic fire at the Triangle shirtwaist factory in NYC, in 1909. I remember learning about it very briefly in high school.
It's been interesting reading about the lives of the different characters in this series...
It's been interesting reading about the lives of the different characters in this series...
February 8, 2021
I have enjoyed all the Orphan books as much as this one. The characters and the stories are interesting. There were times when the plight of the children brought tears to my eyes, but I enjoyed reading the different ways they found to help the orphans. It was also nice to read how some of the orphans they helped in the past turned out as adults. I would recommend the whole series.
February 28, 2021
This was the last book of the series, but I felt that there were a lot of clues that could have lead to a seventh book, which didn’t occur until the Epilogue. Reading all 6 books got you all wrapped up in these peoples lives; each one concentrating on different main characters. I feel that the seventh book would be Lilly and Charlie’s turn. So to me disappointing that there is not more.
October 2, 2021
A story full of love, heartache and compassion.
The author has written another great and entertaining story that opens the history of early life in New York Cities poorest neighborhood and manufacturing area. Very enjoyable and entertaining reading that will make you think how far we have advanced in caring for orphans and the working class.
The author has written another great and entertaining story that opens the history of early life in New York Cities poorest neighborhood and manufacturing area. Very enjoyable and entertaining reading that will make you think how far we have advanced in caring for orphans and the working class.
November 6, 2022
orphan train
Wow, that’s all I can say. What a wonderful tale that has been woven. If you haven’t read his series by new to me author Rachel Wesson, you are really missing out. Great plot twists and characters that I have come to love. I look forward to more from this wonderful author
Wow, that’s all I can say. What a wonderful tale that has been woven. If you haven’t read his series by new to me author Rachel Wesson, you are really missing out. Great plot twists and characters that I have come to love. I look forward to more from this wonderful author
February 26, 2023
This book was a bit disappointing. The author must have run out of ideas and the ability to grow main characters. Two main characters since book one are just dead, some characters are never mentioned again. Lily and her husband ( his character never truly developed) are going to take a much needed trip. On the madden voyage of the Titanic!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 23, 2023
History of women's rights
I enjoy reading about the orphan trains and sweat shop fires history. It is sad to see how women were treated back then and the deaths of innocent children.
This is my first book I have read by this author well done Rachel Wesson. I will have to look for some more of hour books
I enjoy reading about the orphan trains and sweat shop fires history. It is sad to see how women were treated back then and the deaths of innocent children.
This is my first book I have read by this author well done Rachel Wesson. I will have to look for some more of hour books
April 3, 2024
I hated for it to end!
The Orphan Train Series is a collection to be treasured! A true celebration of women and a testament to their strength and determation facing poverty, danger, sorrow and joy. I will carry the characters in my heart. Bravo Rachel Wesson, Netflix or HBO needs to make a docuseries and movie based on these books!
The Orphan Train Series is a collection to be treasured! A true celebration of women and a testament to their strength and determation facing poverty, danger, sorrow and joy. I will carry the characters in my heart. Bravo Rachel Wesson, Netflix or HBO needs to make a docuseries and movie based on these books!
October 15, 2020
Another Winner
Again, this book was well plotted with excellent character development. Unfortunately, like the last book, this book contained quite a few grammatical and/typo errors which spoiled the flow of reading.
Again, this book was well plotted with excellent character development. Unfortunately, like the last book, this book contained quite a few grammatical and/typo errors which spoiled the flow of reading.
December 6, 2020
Amazing
What a fabulous collection of books you would be really missing out if you don't read them although I must earn you you will have no time for to do anything else once you start reading. Highly recommended.
What a fabulous collection of books you would be really missing out if you don't read them although I must earn you you will have no time for to do anything else once you start reading. Highly recommended.
January 29, 2021
I had a hard time focusing on this one, it’s an interesting part of labor history – but the main characters immaturity in blaming her friend, a doctor, for not saving people, repeatedly, is annoying to me. Also the reader made everyone sound English regardless of where they were from.
February 26, 2021
Orphan Train Series
Each book was an emotional experience. Learning about the Orphan trains and the people behind each one was quite a. Experience. I couldn't wait to finish one book so that I could get into the next one.
Each book was an emotional experience. Learning about the Orphan trains and the people behind each one was quite a. Experience. I couldn't wait to finish one book so that I could get into the next one.
June 19, 2021
Orphan Train Disaster
This story was mainly about the
People involved in and affected by the unsafe working conditions of the poor in the garment district in New York city before changed were made to improve the safety of the workers.
This story was mainly about the
People involved in and affected by the unsafe working conditions of the poor in the garment district in New York city before changed were made to improve the safety of the workers.
June 28, 2021
Hearts on Rails books 1-6
Awesome stories finished in 3 days so very good and will reccomend it to others ,very clear and precise to the story the characters and was easily taken care of to stay with the characters and children of the orphanage, will read again
Awesome stories finished in 3 days so very good and will reccomend it to others ,very clear and precise to the story the characters and was easily taken care of to stay with the characters and children of the orphanage, will read again
August 23, 2021
Wrong book title
With the picture on the cover combined name of the book, I expected there something to happen on the Orphan train not a fire in a factory. The story was heart wrenching and tear jerky. It was a very good story.
With the picture on the cover combined name of the book, I expected there something to happen on the Orphan train not a fire in a factory. The story was heart wrenching and tear jerky. It was a very good story.
August 27, 2021
Wonderful Read!
The final book of The Orphan Train Series was just as wonderful as all the previous ones! I sure wish there were more, I loved each and everyone of them, if you enjoy sorrow compassion and love you will find all that in find all that and more in this series.
The final book of The Orphan Train Series was just as wonderful as all the previous ones! I sure wish there were more, I loved each and everyone of them, if you enjoy sorrow compassion and love you will find all that in find all that and more in this series.
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