Jersey Brides: The Glassblower / The Heiress / The Newcomer

The Glass Goldfinch #1-3

by Laurie Alice Eakes

Travel back to the glory days of New Jersey where three women are having conflicts with wealth and status when attractive men enter their lives. Meg is being forced into marriage for riches when her heart longs for a simple artisan. Susan is powerless to use her fortune on the poor or to protect it from her future husband. Marigold is forced to work as a lowly nursemaid for orphans awaiting their uncle before receiving her birthright. Will God lead these women to loves that are even greater in value than money?

Genres: Christian Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Christian, Christian Historical Fiction

349 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

About the author

Laurie Alice Eakes used to lie in bed as a child telling herself stories so she didn’t wake anyone else up. Sometimes she shared her stories withothers; thus, when she decided to be a writer, she surprised no one. Family Guardian, her first book, won the National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency in 2007. In the past three years, she has sold six books to Baker/Revell, five of which are set during the Regency time period, four books to Barbour Publishing, as well as two novellas to Barbour Publishing and one to Baker/Revell. Seven of her books have been picked up by Thorndike Press for large print publication, and Lady in the Mist, her first book with Revell, was chosen for hardcover publication with Crossings Bookclub. She also teaches on-line writing courses and enjoys a speaking ministry that has taken her from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast.
Laurie Alice lives in Texas with her husband, two dogs and two cats, and is learning how to make tamales.

You can learn more about her and her work at http://www.lauriealiceeakes.com

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here are my individual reviews:

The Glassblower, 4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Heiress, 3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Newcomer, 4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Amanda Eggert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. I love how all three stories had someone for the family of the previous story in it. It was a great read.

[M · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Glassblower was my favorite. Totally swoon-worthy Scotsman. The other stories were just decent. I enjoyed the importance of faith throughout the book.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this collection of stories. I thought the heroes and heroines were all well written, and the stories themselves were engaging. I liked how each person needed to learn something about themselves, and learn to put their trust in God (rather than in their own merits!) before the relationship with their sweethearts could work.
I'm not sure I had a favourite of the three stories, but I really did enjoy Beryl and Ruby, the hero's nieces in the last story ('The Newcomer').

[Christin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the best Eakes book...you can tell a lot more effort goes into her longer novels but the characters are still enjoyable and the story fun and well developed. Enjoy! I give it four stars because really it deserves a 3.5 but I can't justify giving it a 3. Once you pick it up, you definitely want to finish it!!

[𝕸𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖑 𝕮. · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book sucked, unfortunately. It was boring and lacked in the romance department.
I'll always love these Romancing America books though, as they bring me so much nostalgia from reading them as a young teen!

One of the stories mentioned that this one older lady "smelled of boiled cabbage"!!! WHAT THE HECK!!!! Terrible writing. Absolutely useless to the story. :( HAHAHAHAH

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