Sarah's Special Gift

A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho

By: Linda Weaver Clarke

Narrated by: Carolyn Kashner

Sarah is a beautiful and successful dance teacher. She is deaf, but this does not stop her from living life to its fullest. While visiting the Roberts family, David finds himself entranced with this very special lady and ends up defending her honor several times. He finds Sarah has gone through many trials as she teaches him the importance of not dwelling on the past and how to love life.

Meanwhile, David learns about the legend of the Bear Lake Monster and wonders why the community believes in such a thing. He is determined to prove there is no Bear Lake Monster.

©2012 Linda Weaver Clarke (P)2018 Linda Weaver Clarke

Wholesome home truths.

Lovely little pioneer romance. l especially enjoyed Sara story and her dependance. Well told by the narrator.

Family is precious

Sarah's Special Gift is Book 4 in A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho by Linda Weaver Clarke. I think that this western series is so good. The era has strong family and a slower life with everyone working hard to support the family. David Roberts had his life turned around by the kindness of Gilbert and Melinda. When he needs time to get away, he leaves Denver for an extended visit to Idaho. David finds talk about the Bear Lake monster, a beautiful lady, Sarah, and good friends. Book 4 has action, romance, and family. Carolyn Kashner gives an outstanding performance with the narration. I received an arc for free and an leaving my review voluntarily.

Excellent

She is successful with her own dance studio and finding the joy in life. Unusual in the era of 1900’s. He comes to her rescue when she is attacked.The attraction is strong, but feels he needs to accomplish other financial things before settling down. The author uses family situation and also good narration that added to the story. The series is a good one to read or listen by audio. Given audio for my voluntary review

Dance Teacher Finds Love in 1900's Idaho

Sarah's Special Gift is an enchanting clean western romance set in the early 1900’s written by Linda Weaver Clarke. It is the fourth story in the Bear Lake, Idaho Saga that picks up several years after the third story (Jenny’s Dream) ends. This book centers around Sarah, a new dance teacher in the area as she opens up a dance studio. Despite being deaf, she is never in want of dance partners at the weekend socials. While visiting old family friends (the Roberts family from the first book in the series), Sarah befriends David. Their relationship starts off as friendship and the love between them develops slowly, which makes it that much more believable.

This story really resonated with me, having a daughter who used to dance with a professional dance company as a student and who has partial hearing loss. Much like Sarah in the story, my daughter endured much difficulty communicating with others for 10 years, yet she never experienced difficultly expressing herself in dance.

There is also a side story about the legend of the Bear Lake Monster, which dates back to Native American times. David is determined to prove there is no Bear Lake Monster, which backfires on him with subtle humor and a touch of mystic.

As she did with the other audiobooks in this series, Carolyn Kashner did an admirable job narrating. She provided varying voices for all characters and inflected just the right amount of emotion in all the right places. Bravo!

good one

I did enjoy listening to this book. I really enjoyed the characters. The reason for a 3-star instead of a 4 is the author repeated themselves many times about why he was in town and why he didn't want to get married. Besides that all is good.