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A Place of Promise
- The Kade Family Saga, Volume 2
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Series: The Kade Family Saga, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
Summary
The compelling story of the Kade family continues in this second volume of The Kade Family Saga series, A Place of Promise, written by Laurel Mouritsen.
The Kades’ two older children, Elizabeth and James, are growing into young adults in the peaceful riverside town of Nauvoo, Illinois, in the 1840s. When traitors plot to murder the Prophet Joseph Smith, James learns of their plan. Danger and intrigue mount as James strives to shield the Prophet from assassination.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth faces dangers of a spiritual nature when she begins associating with friends who will lead her away from the gospel and bring her into open conflict with her family. During a trip to Montrose, she comes in contact with a young Sauk and Fox Indian; their paths will cross again in a surprising twist of events.
As the peace of Nauvoo is being destroyed by foes from within and without the Church, brother and sister are on a collision course that will shatter their family and have repercussions for generations of Kades to come.
Join the Kades in all the color and pageantry, intrigue and suspense, of old Nauvoo. Its legacy as a place of promise will stir your heart and deepen your appreciation for the early Saints.
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- Lilly Cowan
- 01-08-19
Fab story awful accents
Has the narrator ever heard an actual liverpudlian accent? Haiden is supposed to be from Liverpool but sound like he is from Oliver Twist London!!! Other than the awful accents the story is a sturdy sequal and I live the story.
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- Heather
- 17-01-20
Too much focus on drama, not enough history
I'm lds and I get annoyed when a historical fiction is too sqeemish to tell it like it is. I liked the first book, but this one dragged... Started to get good, and then the plot would die off and rush into the next event. This sequel is only told from the point of view from the 2 children of Lydia and Abraham. And they didn't go into detail of the events surrounding what was really gong on. The only historical church figure they interacted with was Parley P Pratt, and this left the testimony building weak. Poligamy was intentionally ignored... And I was highly bothered by the refusal to mention it.. Especially with the issues surrounding Dr Bennett, as his gross immorality was intensified by the more sacred nature of the members choosing to enter into celestial marriage and polygamy. Perhaps the author was afraid of telling it like it was, or unable to reconcile the good and the bad in it and refused to even mention it.
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- Danny
- 08-08-19
whitewashed
One of the biggest reasons the saints were harrassed so horribly at this time was the adoption of the principle of polygamy by the church leaders.
The author has not even discussed the issue and has irresponsibly and purposely omitted it from her story. Those of us who are members currently and who fervently believe that the scourge of polygamy never was something that God approved of find it dishonest and misleading.
Polygamy was and is still a crime against women and children and even some of the men who lived the principle because they were mislead by church leadership.
the church lets its members believe that it was done to help care for women who had lost their husbands but you dont have to marry someone to provide for them. the church and its members could have cared for these families without forcing them into polygamy.
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- Lynda
- 12-02-21
Makes ya wonder
Makes ya wonder about the true timeline for it feels like this is a now timeline with all the politics.
Besides that, Gteat storyline... almost feels like this is IRL it's such a great piece of creative writing that draws you in and keeps you there.