Review of Written on the Mist: First Line Friday

Review of Written on the Mist: First Line Friday

Welcome to my review of Written on the Mist for this week’s First Line Friday. Written on the Mist is written by Naomi Rawlings and is the first in a series. With 420 pages this historical Christian fiction book is long, but it doesn’t read that way. Let’s get to the first line and then head into my review of Written on the Mist.

First Line of Written on the Mist

“Never in his life had he been so cold.”

My review of Written on the Mist

This is a new-to-me author recommended by another reader. I do enjoy historical romance, but I’m not sure I’d ever read a story set in Alaska before. Still, Written on the Mist fell inside my typical reading genres, and I’m glad it did. Written on the Mist is an enjoyable story with a beautiful cover.

Jonas and the Amos family are wonderful characters. While there is romance, the author does a great job of balancing the action and inner workings of each member of the Amos family. She makes you want to go beyond Jonas and Evelina’s story to find out more about each of the siblings. And while having strong women, especially those with what would, for the time, be considered men’s jobs, can come across as pushing the “women are just as good” agenda for the sake of pushing an agenda, this story handles that beautifully. We see two different women, with very different personalities, in these types of roles. The author does a great job showcasing how they each approach this unexpected way of life and the struggles they may face with it.

I admit I didn’t know a lot about the history of Alaska, but this book gave insights through description, jobs, and the characters’ genealogy without the information coming across as a history lesson. And her descriptions are vivid enough to picture the area, even if you’ve never seen it for yourself.

I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the others in the series. For my review of Written on the Mist, I give it four stars.

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