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The story of Jeanie and Frank Arthur, and their life in the Dakota Territory is beautifully painful in its honest portrayal of how loss and betrayal can expose every crack in a relationship.
Jeanie and Frank, shamed by family scandal move to the unforgiving Dakota plains in 1888. With them , they bring their children, Katherine, who as an adult begins and ends the narrative of the novel James, and Tommy.
With another child on the way, Jeannie, struggles to adapt to the hardships of pioneer living, while wearing a mask of hope for the children she so fiercely loves.
As loss, hardships, and betrayal mounts, Jeanie is forced to make decisions that create great rifts of pain between herself and Katherine.
When her mother falls ill, Katherine is forced to face her childhood, and through her memories and letters her mother has kept for years, she begins to understand her mother's actions.
A novel of love, family, friendships, betrayal, and hardship, The Last Letter is an intricately woven story of human strengths, frailties, and the need for forgiveness.
Beautifully written, this novel is an emotional, but exquisite gem!


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The Last Letter The Letter Series Book 1 edition by Kathleen Shoop Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

The story of Jeanuecwho goes from a life of ease as a writer and banker’s wife finds her life turned upside down. The disgrace of her Father ‘s dishonest banking policies and the failure of his business which also providedher husband’s employment finds the family relocating to the prairie and a dugout as a hone. Jeanie’s struggles to provide for and nurture her four children with little help from her lazy, philandering husband draw you into their story so realistically.
The heartbreaks and tragedies she endures threaten the bonds with her children who only begin to learn the truth of the struggles as they care for a dying Jeanie years later and uncover a cache of letters Jeanie had kept from their tears as pioneers. A must read!.
This book bounced between two time frames. In the early one, Katherine was a 10 year old girl and the main character was her mother, Jeanie. 17 years later, Katherine is caring for her dying mother and learning that everything she thought was true about her past, was in fact, very different than she thought. There were several places that made me cry, but we are introduced to the reality of Jeanie’s story through Katherine's eyes as she reads old letters of her mother’s from those early years.
I had a hard time getting through this book. I didn’t really enjoy it. The parent characters from the early story on the prairie were both very difficult people. They are portrayed well, but they were not happy people. It got old quickly as the 2 parents evolved into a loveless, distrustful relationship. I try to finish a book once I start reading it, but it took me awhile. I read several other books between chapters of this one. It was a difficult book to read. I am not at all sure I am going to read the other two books in the trilogy.
I cannot tell you enough how much I loved this book. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it! I loved the way it jumped back in forth between the two time periods, that is what kept it so interesting. The story line was wonderful. Sad, gut wrenching, but wonderful.

Kathleen Stoop is an amazing writer, she really knows how to keep you interested, without a doubt. I am really looking forward to reading all about the Arthur family, to see where their lives take them and to see how their Grandparents lived back in the way 1800's.

I loved this book and would highly recommend your reading it.
This story of pioneer life on the prairie is loosely based on correspondence between the author's great, great grandparents. It is definitely NOT the saccharin-sweet Laura Ingalls Wilder version! In opposition to those books, it is raw, gritty, and very realistic in terms of the hopes dreams, hardships, terror, starvation, suffering, and defeats the Arthur family and their friends and neighbors endured while settling the Dakota territory. I fell in love with Jeannie and her children, and the Zurchenko family. I had no patience for Frank or the Moore sisters. I can hardly wait to read the next book in the series. I could relate to Jeannie's story, because my childhood in the late '40s to early '50s of the 20th century was similar to Jeannie's life on the plains in the 19th century. I simply couldn't stop reading this book. Finished it in one day. (The only reason I put it down, at all, was to charge my tablet so I could keep on reading!) There are a few minor typos scattered throughout the text, and occasional instances of using the wrong homonyms (e.g., "lead" instead of "led," or "bare" instead of "bear", for which I blame "spellchecker" software), but overall, it was not too distracting. I can highly recommend this book!
The amount of research the author did shows. Only the toughest pioneers survived in the Dakotas and surrounding territories. A sudden fire burning down houses, barns, and crops while settlers can only stand and watch, a plague of millions of grasshoppers eating anything in sight including crops, clothing, even biting through to the skin of the settlers, only people tough to their core can survive these calamities and not give up. Families and neighbors knew that their survival depended on their helping one another, regardless of whether they liked one another.
The story of Jeanie and Frank Arthur, and their life in the Dakota Territory is beautifully painful in its honest portrayal of how loss and betrayal can expose every crack in a relationship.
Jeanie and Frank, shamed by family scandal move to the unforgiving Dakota plains in 1888. With them , they bring their children, Katherine, who as an adult begins and ends the narrative of the novel James, and Tommy.
With another child on the way, Jeannie, struggles to adapt to the hardships of pioneer living, while wearing a mask of hope for the children she so fiercely loves.
As loss, hardships, and betrayal mounts, Jeanie is forced to make decisions that create great rifts of pain between herself and Katherine.
When her mother falls ill, Katherine is forced to face her childhood, and through her memories and letters her mother has kept for years, she begins to understand her mother's actions.
A novel of love, family, friendships, betrayal, and hardship, The Last Letter is an intricately woven story of human strengths, frailties, and the need for forgiveness.
Beautifully written, this novel is an emotional, but exquisite gem!