The Chicago World’s Fair came once and last six
months. The novel, “It Happened at the Fair” has come once and I wish it would
have lasted me those six months!
From
first chuckle to last sigh, this novel made my five-star book shelves and my
favorites for 2013. Sweetly romantic, sassy and charming, I couldn’t have loved
spending time with these characters more.
I
don’t think you could have a richer in culture and history setting than the
World’s Fair. There aren’t many books out there set in this period and it was
fun to step into this world created by so many ingenious minds.
Our
characters in Cullen and Della are captivating. To watch their dance of avoidance
and falling in love, that tension that only comes from truly wanting and loving
something you can’t have made the pages irresistible to stop turning. It’s one
of those stories, you don’t skim. At all.
With
historical depth, romantic symmetry and snappy dialogue, a story world has been
created that made this reader ever so eager to spend all the time I could
there. It’s just too bad each page takes you closer to the end. Highly
recommended historical romance reading!
This
review is my honest opinion. Thanks to the publishers through Litfuse for my
copy to review.
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More about the novel...
A transporting historical novel about a promising young inventor, his struggle with loss, and the
Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the Fair’s Machinery Palace makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading.
The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons while intently watching her lips. Like the newly invented Ferris Wheel, he is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an inventor, and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. Can he keep his feet on the ground, or will he be carried away?
*~*CONTEST INFO*~*
Deeanne Gist is celebrating the release of It Happened at the Fair with an iPad Mini Giveaway and a Live Author Chat Webcast event {5/22}!
One "fair" winner will receive:
- An iPad Mini
- A $25 iTunes gift card
So grab your copy of It Happened at the Fair and join Deeanne and friends on the evening of May 22nd for a chance to connect and make some new friends. (If you haven't read the book, don't let that stop you from coming!)
I always enjoy Deeanne's books but your review makes me even more eager to read this one!
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