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To Ride a White Horse

de Pamela Ford

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Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.Ireland 1846. With Ireland ravaged by famine and England unsympathetic to its plight, Kathleen Deacey faces a devastating choice-leave her country to find work or risk dying there. Despising the English for refusing to help Ireland, she crosses the ocean to support her family and search for her missing fiance.But when her voyage goes awry, she must accept help from an English whaling captain, Jack Montgomery, who represents everything she despises-and with whom she is reluctantly falling in love. As Kathleen fights to save her family back in Ireland, she finds herself facing yet another devastating choice-remain loyal to her country or follow her heart.Award-winning author Pamela Ford captures the anguish of a devastating period in Irish history and delivers a historical saga of hope, loyalty, the strength of the human spirit, and the power of love. With more than a half million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is known for creating stories that are emotional and moving.… (mais)
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To Ride a White Horse begins the Out of Ireland series by Pamela Ford. I had already read the second book, A Rush of White Wings, previously. So, I had the pleasure of learning about some of the characters that were part of this story. I enjoyed that one and I was not at all disappointed with this one. Readers are introduced to Kathleen Deacey in 1846. She and her family are living in devastated Ireland. She is seeking for a new life and find a way to support her family. She, also, wants to get far away from the English as much as possible. They have caused her so much heartache and pain. However, when she is on a ship to cross the ocean to North America, she meets an English captain, Jack Montgomery. The two have undeniable chemistry. I loved Kathleen’s courage to do what is right for herself and was hoping for the best for her. It is a beautiful story that I could not put down.

To Ride a White Horse is getting a very well deserved five plus stars from me. I highly recommend it for readers who enjoy historical fiction. I am hoping that there will be a third book from the Out of Ireland series releasing in the near future. I am not ready to say good bye to wonderful these characters.

I received To Ride a White Horse from the publisher. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion. ( )
  amybooksy | Jan 8, 2021 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
This book drew me in immediately and I did not want to put it down. It's a beautiful story of a young woman who leaves the home she loves in order find a better life away from the potato famine facing Ireland and try to find her fiance, the man she's loved since childhood. When she's shipwrecked and rescued by an English whaling captain who has no use for a woman on his ship, her plans to work send money home are delayed she fears even more for her family. When she starts to realize she has feelings for the captain - feelings she never had for her fiance - she begins a real struggle toward true self discovery and pure love. ( )
  PhDinHorribleness | Oct 4, 2016 |
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Good historic romance with lots of interesting settings including a horrific whale hunting ship and the Irish famine. The romance, with its own rocky path, is satisfying. ( )
  JaiW | Aug 25, 2015 |
This was a book that really pulled at my emotions – on many levels. The history of the potato famine and what it did to the people of Ireland is well known. The British raped that country for what it could produce and let the citizens starve. The rich took what they wanted and damn the poor – it must be their fault somehow. Sound familiar? But I’m not ranting on today’s politics but rather reviewing a very well written book that delivers the history and the humanity with equal aplomb.

Kathleen awaits the return home of her fiance but he fails to come back on the ship with her brother. As the potato crop continues to fail it’s Kathleen that is sent to find work to send money home. She figures at the same time she can try and find what happened to her love but all does not turn out as she plans. She ends up shipwrecked and rescued by of all things, an Englishman. A man of the country she hates to the bottom of her soul. But he does her many a kindness and alters her thinking that all Englishmen are bad. She ends up in Boston where the Irish are not appreciated and finds her new life very difficult.

This was a book that drew me in from the very first page. I had the worst time putting it down. Ms. Ford just drew me into the world she created and her characters truly came to life. It was a horrible time in history for the Irish (confession – I’m half Irish) and they suffered at home and abroad when they tried to find new lives. This is all represented in the book with a very well defined plot and strong character development. ( )
  BooksCooksLooks | Jun 24, 2015 |
I received a complimentary copy of this book as a part of a book tour for a fair and honest review and rated it 4.5 out of 5 stars.

A captivating historical romance, To Ride a White Horse by Pamela Ford combines the best of both genres. Filled with facts and descriptions that transport you to both a small town in Ireland and Boston, Massachusetts, Ms. Ford’s novel grabbed my attention from the first page and never let go. Reminding us of the best and worst of humanity, Ms. Ford covers heavy subjects such as ethnic prejudice, freedom, and indentured servitude, grace and forgiveness without weighing her story down. Filled with plenty of emotional angst, twists and turns and the redemptive power of love, this is a story romance lovers will definitely enjoy.

Forced to leave her Irish homeland behind due to another potato crop failure and devastating country wide famine, Kathleen Deacey boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, Canada with the intention of finding her fiancée and sending money home to help support her family. Only nothing goes as planned and Kathleen, who is washed overboard during a storm, finds herself on an American whaling ship headed in the wrong direction. Forced to accept help from Jack Montgomery, the ships English captain, Kathleen relies on the hope that when the ship lands in Boston, she’ll be able to find lodging, find employment and eventually find her fiancée and help her family financially. She never thought she’d fall in love with an Englishman or find herself having to choose between her country and her heart.

Ms. Ford does an excellent job developing Kathleen’s character; I understood her despair when her fiancée didn’t come home as promised, her anger over how her country and its people were being treated by the English government and its people, and her fear as she is forced to leave her home and travel someplace new by herself. A strong, yet occasionally superstitious woman, Kathleen Is grounded in the love she grew up in and is generous when she has the opportunity. Raised a Roman Catholic, Kathleen Is also a firm believer in God, in the power of prayer and has a strong moral code she’ll need to rely on when she is tempted with several choices. I really liked her and enjoyed watching as she develops even more as the story progresses.

An Englishman who himself fled England due to lack of financial opportunity, Jack Montgomery has been making a good living as a whale ship captain and looks forward to an even brighter future when he returns to port in Boston with a ship full of oil. He never planned on rescuing a woman in the middle of the ocean with a ship full of men who hadn’t seen a woman in six months, or on finding himself attracted to her. Bringing her to America as quickly as possible is the only thing he can do.

Ms. Ford also does a good job developing Jack’s character and I found him to be an excellent romance hero. Attractive, intelligent and generally decent overall, Jack has no intentions of taking advantage of Kathleen or on letting anyone else take advantage of her either. When they finally make it to Boston, he refuses to let her leave the ship without his escort and even takes her to his home, where he lives with his cantankerous grandfather, so that he can make sure she is safe. When it’s clear that even in Boston the Irish have problems finding jobs and decent lodging, Jack insists on hiring her and giving her lodging in his home. Something that doesn’t exactly make his grandfather a happy camper.

The secondary characters are well developed and make important contributions to the story. I really enjoyed getting to know Jack’s grandfather, even though he was a crotchety and at times mouthy older man. I also enjoyed getting to know Sean, Kathleen’s brother, her mother and her father and even the Montgomery’s cook. Ms. Ford does an excellent job setting up the historical aspects of her story and while I knew a little bit about the potato blight, and famine that occurred afterwards, I didn’t realize the extent of the damage, horror and the hostility it lead to between the Irish and the English. Ms. Ford also gives us a realistic sense of what life on a ship in the 1840s was like and reminded me about the evils of whale hunting – something I’m vehemently opposed to and have never understood the need for. The author does an excellent job setting up what Boston would have been like at the time and how even in this new country, founded on the principal of open arms toward newcomers, ethnic issues had crossed the ocean.

Will Kathleen find her “missing” fiancée? Will she realize her future lies in America and maybe with Jack instead? Will Kathleen’s family somehow survive the horror of what’s taking place in Ireland? You’ll have to read To Ride a White Horse to find out. I really enjoyed it and look forward to reading more of Ms. Ford’s work. ( )
  MariaD. | Jun 16, 2015 |
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Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.Ireland 1846. With Ireland ravaged by famine and England unsympathetic to its plight, Kathleen Deacey faces a devastating choice-leave her country to find work or risk dying there. Despising the English for refusing to help Ireland, she crosses the ocean to support her family and search for her missing fiance.But when her voyage goes awry, she must accept help from an English whaling captain, Jack Montgomery, who represents everything she despises-and with whom she is reluctantly falling in love. As Kathleen fights to save her family back in Ireland, she finds herself facing yet another devastating choice-remain loyal to her country or follow her heart.Award-winning author Pamela Ford captures the anguish of a devastating period in Irish history and delivers a historical saga of hope, loyalty, the strength of the human spirit, and the power of love. With more than a half million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is known for creating stories that are emotional and moving.

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