AR: 5.5

When Hope Springs New is the fourth book in Janette Oke's Canadian West series. Elizabeth and Wynn leave Beaver Creek and take over an “even more primitive outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated because of the Indian women's fear to even communicate with her, and found her greatest challenges were yet to be met.”

Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated when the local Indian women are afraid to even communicate with her.

The way Elizabeth really comes into her own in this novel makes for a nice enough ending to the original four-book series.

Yet, it doesn't exactly seem to end so much as it just finds a place to stop, eventually. There isn't much of a climax, and after a significant change about three quarters into the novel, I couldn't really connect with a whole different setting and a new bunch of characters when the book was almost over, bringing a new set of problems that would have to be rushed through. An ending like this one would need more added to it, sometime, to make something more of it.

Thank goodness the series does continue with two more novels much later, and as I've read and enjoyed those books already, I know the continuation is a good one. ( )

I love this series!!! I love the adventure feel of it, I also love that it has a meaning and a message to it. ( )