I believed Annie and Luke were in love with each other, and that their bond had formed on her tenth birthday, when he treated her like a normal girl instead of a glass doll. The explicit scenes were a bit cringey she seems to have a better handle on emotions than on physical lust. I can definitely see why this author turned to inspirational novels as her career progressed. It was a sour note on which to end this otherwise quiet, simple love story. She purposefully misconstrues her husband's regrets to pick yet another fight with him, which only sets up the Grand Romantic Gesture at the end. She's stupid and selfish and self-pitying, but luckily the rest of her family doesn't put up with it this go-around. She'd spent the entire novel growing and learning and coming into her own, but the moment something bad happens, she runs back to her mother like a frightened little girl and shuts her husband out.
I didn't like Annie during this last third of the book. They are both bereft, but Annie turns in on herself, feeling piteous and helpless, just like the invalid she fought so hard from being. Annie's mother is a stone-cold bitch, however, and does everything in her power to mow down her daughter's newfound self esteem, even managing to drive a wedge between the happy couple when tragedy strikes when Annie is injured in a stampede and loses their firstborn child together. Annie and Luke are too precious for words sometimes, but they are determined to be together, and they face her family head-on in order to make those dreams come true. This is a very sweet (almost saccharine) love story. Annie feels stifled, and when Luke comes back into her life, she desperately wants to live like a normal young woman. Her family feels that he isn't good enough for her, but they also feel like she's a porcelain doll, too fragile to do anything for herself. Annie is the daughter of the town banker, while Luke is a mere horseman, recently buying the livery and slowly making his way in the world. Her ecstasy lasts until they arrive back at her house, where her family flips out and her brother physically confronts Luke.įor the next ten years, her family goes out of their way to keep the two apart. Annie immediately agrees, and for the first time in her life, feels like she's been allowed to live. On her tenth birthday, Luke Carpenter shows up with his Uncle Gil, and while his uncle talks to her parents, Luke offers her a ride on his horse, Wrangler. Annie Sweetwater wasn't like other girls.and she desperately wanted to be.īorn with a malformed leg, she is cosseted by her parents, especially her mother, and isn't allowed to do anything other than sit in her wheelchair in her frilly dresses and watch as the rest of her family walks, runs, moves, and enjoys life.
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