Sweet Violet

i love this book. i love the long, tender, adventurous romance. i love the missionary's transformation into a "real" man and how he gave his testimony and the message of Jesus' love as much and as best as he could. i loved every single detail about India, the colours, the customs, the food, the scents. i loved how the missionary cared and protected and fought for Violet.... i loved every single thing about this romantic, exotic book!

Catherine Palmer is a great writer, but this one is not as good as the other two in this series. It's a little long and draggy.

Catherine Palmer is one of my favorite romance authors and I have thoroughly enjoyed her Heart Quest Ivy series. Palmer is wonderful at weaving in exotic places into her books. She does it again with Violet a rebellious young English girl raised in India by her ayah. Edmund (who was the brother to Randolph from book 2 in this series) is a missionary who hasn't gained one convert in his years in India. At the chance of getting a license to preach and his own church Edmund agrees to Violet's father's terms even though he doesn't fully agree with his motives. The only faults I find in this book are how child like Violet is. Sometimes she seems more like a rebellious teenager than a woman. This book is a bit unbelievable too when it comes to Olivia and Edmund's relationship. Even though Edmund realizes that the Hewes aren't as bad as they seem after all of the years of family hatred you can hardly expect them to call each other "brother" and "sister". It would have been more believable for them just to call each other by their first names. Otherwise the books many good qualities outweigh its bad ones. If you liked the other books in this series you will love this one also!