I loved Penny’s rambunctious dog, Honeysuckle, and I enjoyed revisiting some of the characters from The Hope of Azure Springs. I enjoyed watching Penny’s developing relationship with Thomas. There was also a light suspense thread, as someone appears to be trying to sabotage Thomas’s farm. After all, this mystery wasn’t central to the plot. I don’t think it would have affected the overall story to know the truth of that earlier, and it would have meant the story ran more smoothly in the beginning. Also, I wasn’t entirely sure Clara was dead, and we don’t find out what happened until close to the end of the story. We know something happened between them, and Penny tells him Clara died, although doesn’t say how.
There was a mystery around Thomas and Clara’s relationship. Once the story got going, it was very good. They aren’t delivered and end up in the dead letter office … where Penny reads them and becomes engaged in Thomas’s romance. He writes letters to his beloved, Clara, describing his situation. Thomas bought a farm in Azure Springs after becoming stranded in the small town. Penny-Penelope Ercanbeck-grew up in a privileged home, but now works in the dead letter office following her father’s death and the loss of his fortune. The story picked up pace and got a lot more interesting once Penny arrived in Azure Springs and met Thomas-and some of the other townspeople. But I found the opening dragged as a result. The nature of the story-the dead letter office-meant it had to start with Penny and Thomas in different places, and for there to be a reasonable period of time before they met. The main issue was that Yours Truly, Thomas took a long time to get going. Bad, because it set a high standard for Yours Truly, Thomas to live up to. Good, because The Hope of Azure Springs was excellent. So I decided I’d read The Hope of Azure Springs first. That was a good idea, and a bad idea. #ChristianRomance #WesternRomance Click To Tweet Recommended for fans of Christian historical fiction. Yours Truly, Thomas is Rachel Fordham's second novel, following The Hope of Azure Springs.
I didn’t get far into the novel before I realised it was the second in a series … and that I already own the first ( The Hope of Azure Springs), but hadn’t read it. I requested Yours Truly, Thomas for review because I was intrigued by the idea of a dead letter office and how that would play into a romance novel.
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