In His Arms (Coming to America #3) 
Product Description: - Mary Malone comes to America to join the father of the child she’s carrying, and instead has to flee New York when she thinks she has killed a man. Escaping to Idaho, she finds love, family, and faith.
Customer Ratings: - Adventures Galore from Ireland to Idaho. A continuation of the story of three immigrants who arrived to view the Statue of Liberty together and went their separate ways. This one, a colleen with the Irish brouge and lift in her words which was almost musical, the accent so appealing as were her physical looks. She proved to be a strong woman with many problems caused by loving the wrong man. She ended up at a den of iniquity quite by chance and found that late hours come with the territory.
We are born to look the way we ll look as we age. Mary was an orphan who followed her intended husband and her brother to America to start a new life. Instead, she found bitterness in cold company. The quest for money can make people do strange things. Time, however, can do what words cannot. Dreams help, too.
The sheriff was a practical man, the sort who lived by the rules and hard facts and reality. The lady of his dreams had a secret and made sure that no one was privy to her sin of long ago. She was in his arms, where she belonged. A woman should have a special supper on the night she received a proposal of marriage and all it entails, roots plus obligations, family and a real home. Her guilt kept her unwed until she learned the truth the hard way and almost lost her life in the mine.
There was mutual animosity with the mine owner and she couldn t change the past but could her future. The crime she ran from didn t have the consequences she feared and ran from. The ending was worth some of the trivial day-to-day happenings. Waiting to be rescued from the silver mine, she started humming a melody, she couldn t remember the words or even the title, just the tune. Mark whistles, on the Greyhound, I also hummed to blot out an offensive cell phone conversation. Get behind me Satan, to the enemy. Another miracle as happens in all of Robin Hatcher s and answer to a prayer. - Immoral. As a reader of Christian Fiction I found this book to have immoral, sexual content. I had stop reading it.
- No struggle at all. I couldn t disagree more with the reader who said she struggled to finish and finally gave up. When I finished this book I immediately went to amazon to order the other two books in the series. I wanted more of Hatcher. She gave me what I always look for in a novel. Good people who are human and struggle with the same types of sins that I do and evil people who either repent or pay the price.
- In His Arms. I read only Christian novels and this is an excellent example. I look forward to more books by Robin Lee Hatcher. She s great.
- Struggled to finish it, and didn t succeed. I picked up this book because it had Robin Lee Hatcher s name on it. I d been very impressed by her story in Leisure Books A Frontier Christmas romance anthology, so I thought I would give her full-length novels a try. Please note that this review is for the original mass market paperback printing by Harper Collins in 1998, and not for the revised inspirational romance edition.
While the plot of this book was fairly interesting, my problem was with the characters. They felt very flat. Mary is a loving mother who would do anything for her son. She has fallen on hard times, and is running from an incident in her past that could ruin her life. Carson a tortured man who is trying to get past the hurt he suffered as the unwanted child of a prostitute. This could have been interesting, except that the author never probed the characters any deeper than these initial descriptions. I wanted to know what really made them tick. I wanted to know why they should fall in love with each other. The author didn t show me.
After the interesting beginning, the plot began to slow down until it was dragging. I had to keep bargaining with myself to keep reading this. I kept saying, well, I ll just read until page 100 and see if it picks up . Then I ll just read until page 150 and see if it picks up then . Then I ll just read until page 200 etc, etc. A good book shouldn t made a reader do this. A good book should have you zooming through it so fast that you re surprised (and sad) that it s over already.
I finally gave up on this, wanting to move on to something better. It seems that this author can write excellent novellas, but not entertaining full-length novels. This is the second of her full-length novels that I ve tried, and as both were disappointing, I don t think that there will be a third.
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In His Arms (Coming to America #3) (ID: 0310231205)
