Prints of Grace: Ella's Promise Great Love-Great War Series Book 3 by Ellen Gable

Julia’s Gifts and Charlotte’s Honor are the first two books in Ellen Gable’s Great War-Great Love series. Like the other novels, this one is set in France during WWI and the main character is a young woman who has volunteered to serve the victims of war needing medical attention.

With more medical training and experience than Julia or Charlotte, Ella is able to do more to help the soldiers in need of treatment for injury or illness than either of her friends could. Ella’s fluency in German also makes her the perfect candidate for a couple of reconnaissance missions in the field.

I liked that poetry and letters from the family are included in the text. They add flavor and another perspective to the prose. After recently reading an anthology of popular short stories published in the last twenty years, it’s refreshing to read about characters who have morals by which they attempt to live.

A few of the coincidences in the book walk the line between being believable versus a little too trite and predictable. That being said, Ellen Gable is one of the very few authors whose romance novels I’m willing to read. There’s a lot of smut out there which I can’t and won’t pick up. Someone's written a series of historical fiction love stories without severe moral depravity? Sure, sign me up.

I have enjoyed a number of Ellen Gable’s other historical fiction novels. Among my favorites are: In Name Only and the sequel A Subtle Grace.

I read and reviewed Ella's Promise as part of a virtual blog tour.

Ellen Gable is an award-winning author of ten books, editor, self-publishing book coach, speaker, publisher, NFP teacher, book reviewer, transcriptionist, and instructor in the Theology of the Body for Teens. Her books have been collectively downloaded 750,000 times on Kindle. Some of her books have been translated into Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and French. The mother of five adult sons and grandmother to one cherished grandson, Ellen (originally from New Jersey) now lives with her husband of 37 years, James Hrkach, in Pakenham, Ontario, Canada. For more information about the author, click here.

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