Book Review of
The Road To Paradise
The Road to Paradise by Karen Barnett is set in Mount Rainier National Park in 1927. It is the early days of the National Park Service, and Margaret Margie, an avid naturalist, gets a position working alongside the park rangers who live and work in the beautiful land in Mount Rainier’s shadow.
Margie’s former fiancé plans on developing a tourist playground by building the Paradise Inn and its surrounding area. Can Margie save the land that she has grown to love?
Lynn's Review
I really enjoyed this book. It was a fun easy read that I finished in two days. After abandoning two modern fiction books because they contained way too many descriptive love scenes, it was nice to read a clean Christian romance type of book. In my opinion a good story line does not need descriptive loves scenes to sell it. All too often modern day fiction has at least a few pages that I feel could have totally been left out of the book.
The problem with most Christian or clean romance is that it is cheesy, over the top sappy, and very predictable. This book is a bit cheesy and predictable, but it was also fun to read.
It is set in a National Park, which makes it an unusual setting for a book like this. I enjoyed the descriptions of the mountains and scenery. The book in a way helps promote National Parks. I grew up in the Pacific NW, and the author does a great job of describing that part of the country. I think this is due to the fact that the author was a Park Ranger at one time, so she knows what it is like.
I thought most of the challenges they face in the book are real challenges that could have been faced at the time the book is set, in the 1920s. Many books like this are unrealistic, but this one had a pretty realistic storyline.
About the Author
Karen Barnett is a former park ranger who now writes fiction books set in National Parks.