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I did feel the third book lacked some of the emotional depth of the first two books. The last 20% of the book also felt a bit rushed, as if the author was trying to tie things up. I was also left with some questions and frustration as to why some of the plot points were never resolved. Why was the issue of Bennett's involvement in Charlotte's death never dealt with? Why was Elspeth allowed to be around the family when she was suspected of the death of her own child? Why were the children sent over to Wade's when he was clearly a dangerous person? There was also the question of how the beloved characters of Silas and Eden had produced a daughter as mean and bitter as Andra. And while I did enjoy learning about the rules of high society, I did not understand what drove Wren to go along with Andra's plan to push her into it. Also absent in the third book was even one mention of Isabel Turlock. Seeing her slight change of heart at the end of book two, I would have thought we would have heard at least something about her in book three. Despite these criticisms I am still giving the book a 5 rating because the story was just so good and so much better than most out there. I am sad to see this fantastic series come to an end!


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Love Fortune A Novel The Ballantyne Legacy Volume 3 Laura Frantz 9780800720438 Books Reviews

The third and final book in the series. She is my favorite author as is Tamar Alexander and Jane Austin. They are all so gifted in prose, plot, human nature, dialog, history, and entertainment. Long after you read their stories there is still the feeling you have walked with noble friends and miss their company.
Eden, Ellie and Wren, Silas, Jack and James all have the qualities you aspire too...yet the same human frailties we struggle with as well. As I read these stories I keep thinking the author here must have a great knowledge in human nature...but smiling I knew God's hand was there as well because He wants us to enjoy the needed diversion of good, literature as we too plod along making the tough choices to always see His hand in our lives simply because He loves us.
So I am forced to bid a sad farewell to a much-loved trilogy The Ballantyne Legagy by Laura Frantz. This third and final book, “Love’s Fortune,” only forged my love of this three-generation family saga even deeper.

This third story involves the daughter of Ansel Ballantyne. Because of dangerous circumstances in Pittsburgh, Ansel had been forced to seek refuge elsewhere and raise his only child, Rowena (known as “Wren”) in the beauty, simplicity and music of Kentucky. Far from the luxury of her northern cousins, Wren is abruptly transported into that world and finds conflict with all that she has known.

As always, Ms Frantz creates such believable and engaging characters that you can see and feel in your heart and mind. As Wren meets up with her numerous relatives in Pennsylvania, the reader is reunited with the much-loved characters of the first two books, “Love’s Reckoning” and “Love’s Awakening.” It was a happy reunion for me. Concluding this series was satisfying yet a tad sentimental.

A historical romance series that I will long treasure in my reader’s heart.
I am a huge Laura Frantz fan, but this book is probably my least favorite of all her books. It is not because of her writing, which is always superb. I think it's because I like her frontier/early America novels so much better than this novel, which was set among Pittsburgh society and an industrializing America. The Frontiersman's Daughter epitomizes what Frantz does best. Not only does the setting of Love's Fortune seem less "Frantzian" than her other novels, the number of people that the author has to manage and whose stories have to be wound up (since this is the last of the trilogy) makes the story slow-moving and the ending rather abrupt. I can buy into Wren's and James's immediate attraction, but for about the first third of the book they are apart before suddenly being thrust together in society. Their romance begins to bud then. Another reviewer noted the passion between them; it is nothing unseemly and is handled well. Even Christian people are attracted to one another and kiss each other before marriage.

The problems that I had were just nit-picky, and I would still recommend this novel Ansel is portrayed at the beginning as a doting, caring father, but he goes off on his father's business and is gone for most of the novel, leaving his sheltered, wilderness-raised daughter to sink or swim in Pittsburgh society, guided by her cold-hearted Aunt Andra, a woman he couldn't abide in Love's Awakening. Removing him from the action was needed so that Wren could be around James more, and he couldn't die because the family would have been in mourning and unable to participate in the season. Still, Ansel's actions are problematic given the family dynamic. Other than the need for a villain, I could see no reason for Bennett's presence in the novel. The ending was strangely abrupt after the novel juggled so many different people for so long. Just as her father's return is imminent, Wren decides to do something rash on her own, without waiting for him to arrive. Izannah & Malachi's story is wrapped up suddenly--what changed his mind? Why is she willing to accept this change? Despite everything, the requisite happy ending comes.

I will say that it was nice to visit with old friends from the previous novels. It is clear that Elspeth could never change. Silas and Eden are still in love, and readers can see the family that has grown from that love. Jack and Ellie are as in love as ever, and it was especially warming to visit with them again at River Hill. Izannah perhaps needed her own book, but Wren was sweet and harkens back to Frantz's earlier Kentucky frontier novels. For that reason alone, I warmed to her. Laura Frantz is always wonderful, and I look forward to her next novel.
I did feel the third book lacked some of the emotional depth of the first two books. The last 20% of the book also felt a bit rushed, as if the author was trying to tie things up. I was also left with some questions and frustration as to why some of the plot points were never resolved. Why was the issue of Bennett's involvement in Charlotte's death never dealt with? Why was Elspeth allowed to be around the family when she was suspected of the death of her own child? Why were the children sent over to Wade's when he was clearly a dangerous person? There was also the question of how the beloved characters of Silas and Eden had produced a daughter as mean and bitter as Andra. And while I did enjoy learning about the rules of high society, I did not understand what drove Wren to go along with Andra's plan to push her into it. Also absent in the third book was even one mention of Isabel Turlock. Seeing her slight change of heart at the end of book two, I would have thought we would have heard at least something about her in book three. Despite these criticisms I am still giving the book a 5 rating because the story was just so good and so much better than most out there. I am sad to see this fantastic series come to an end!