Song of My Heart {Review}

Song of My Heart, by Kim Vogel Sawyer, is a sweet, but fairly predictable romance.  It took me a bit to get into this book, and I thought it was a little slow to start, but it had a great ending.  Sadie is a sweet, rather naive, young girl working far from home to help support her family after her stepfather is injured.  She moves to Goldtree, Kansas, where her cousin Sid lives and told her of a store clerk job and an opportunity to use her musical talents at the town's new opera house.  When the opera house owner coerces her into performing bawdy songs for "invite-only" performances, Sadie does so to continue to be able to send money home to her family.
Thad McKane is also a new arrival in Goldtree.  He has been hired as the sheriff to discover who is running an illegal liqueur operation in town.  When Thad begins to discover that the illegal activity seems to be connected to Sadie, he wonders if their new found romance will be able to last.
Despite being predictable in the beginning, I liked how the ending of the story came about.  I also really enjoyed the quirky side characters of Melba and Shelba Baxter, the owners of the mercantile who give Sadie her clerk job and take her into their own home.  Kim Vogel Sawyer does a very nice job of weaving in the lesson of learning to trust God.  Sadie was trying to do what she thought she needed to to, but instead she should have allowed God to provide for her and her family.  Once she realized this, she was able to do what was right and have the courage to face the consequences of her actions.  Song of My Heart is a good romance with a strong faith base and I recommend it to anyone.

I received this book for free for review from Bethany House Publishers.

Blessings,