No Other Will Do

Title: No Other Will Do (Audio Review)

Series: Ladies of Harper Station #1

Author: Karen Witemeyer

Narrator: Johanna Parker

Genre: Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction,

Publisher: Bethany House

Source: Library

My review:

I really enjoy Karen Witemeyer's books. I have had No Other Will Do on my TBR for quite a while, and I was excited to get to it.

Johanna Parker is the narrator, and she does a fabulous job. Her voices are distinctive, and it was a pleasure to listen to her voice.

Overall, I liked the story. I was a bit disappointed because No Other Will Do did not have Witemeyer's trademark humor that I was looking forward to.  Maybe it was harder to write in with the subject matter regardless; I missed it.

I liked Emma and her aunts were funny at the very beginning. However, with the serious tone of the story, the aunts got serious as well. I also adored Malachi. I loved how he and Emma met and how the story went from friends to more.

★★★/5

Synopsis (Goodreads): 

Men are optional. That's the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts preached and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive them out, Emma admits they might need a man after all. A man who can fight--and she knows just the one.

Malachi Shaw finally earned the respect he craved by becoming an explosives expert for the railroad. Yet when Emma's plea arrives, he bolts to Harper's Station to repay the girl who once saved his life. Only she's not a girl any longer. She's a woman with a mind of her own and a smile that makes a man imagine a future he doesn't deserve.

As the danger intensifies, old feelings grow and deepen, but Emma and Mal will need more than love to survive.