Susan May Warren is an excellent author, and I just finished reading one of her best novels she has written so far: Creed, the 5th and final book in her Minnesota Marshalls Series. He is the youngest Marshall, and is the only adopted one. No, not Marshal as the law enforcement who chase bad guys, but Marshall, as in a family name.
This is a series about 5 siblings and their adventures that take them all over the place, including other countries. And they are from Minnesota, hence the Minnesota Marshalls.
A few years ago, the author did another Marshalls series: the Montana Marshalls. They are all from....wait for it.....Montana. 😀
The Marshalls in the Montana series are cousins to the Marshalls in this series, and make appearances in this series. As do characters from other series by this author.
Since I just read Creed yesterday, here is my review I left a few places:
Awesome is not an exaggeration for this book. I believe 100% that this author's best writing has been her two Marshalls series.
And this was an epic ending to the Minnesota Marhalls Series. Just wow.
Creed finally gets his chance to shine, and finally finds his true place in the family he was adopted into. I won't give any spoilers, but the whole think with his mom and him at the end of the book.....I admit my eyes watered.
Pretty much the whole gang showed up in this book, and were amazing. My favorite Susan May Warren character even showed up - York - and had some great advice for Creed.
There was a lot of talk about forgiveness and trusting God - even forgiving one's self, that Creed and Fraser both needed.
A lot happened. A lot. I did struggle a bit to keep up with everything when they were relating what had happened before this story, and how it related to what was happening now, but I managed. The author wove a lot of stories together in this final climax of a huge plot.
And there were funny moments...such as the tackle of a certain bad guy by a certain football player.
Truly, this series was some of Warren's best writing, best plots, best characters, best relationships between the characters.
Warren is an author who weaves series together and has characters appear in multiple series. For instance, Creed was just published this month, but he as a character first appeared in Storm Front (2018), the 5th book in her Montana Rescue Series. (She must like Montana). In that book, Creed was in high school and was trapped with other students in a school when a hurricane demolished their town.
Creed was hailed as a hero for keeping the other students safe and alive, and for helping rescue them.
Then there is the Global Search and Rescue Series, and characters from that series appear in both Marshalls Series.
One of my favorite series of hers is The Sky King Ranch. I reviewed all 3 books, and really enjoyed it. The series is about triplet brothers who haven't seen each other in a decade, basically due to one of them kissing the girlfriend of his brother, then ending up in the hospital because of being beaten up by that brother. Dodge, Ranger, and Colt make up an awesome trilogy.
I would be remiss if I ended without talking about my all time favorite character in her books: York Newgate. He was a CIA agent who had done a lot of bad stuff to keep America and her citizens safe.
He first made an appearance in the Montana Marshalls Series - I think Wyatt, book #4. Possibly earlier in the series. Anyway, I won't give too many spoilers away, but he becomes the love interest of the only female Montana Marshalls female sibling: Ruby Jane - or RJ.
This is the cool part. And yeah, it is fiction, but still cool: York thought he had done so much bad that he was beyond redemption. So the author had something happen and he got amnesia for a while and had no idea who he was. And during that time, he found God. In the author's words: He had to lose his memories and forget what kind of man he had been, in order to believe he could be redeemed.
The author didn't stop his story in the last Montana Marshalls book - Ruby Jane. She went on to do a trilogy that all came out in the same month - August 2022 - about York and RJ, and they are considered books 6-8 in the Montana Marshalls Series.
She is an author I highly recommend, and has a lot of books, and a wide variety of books. Some are just straight romance, while many are suspense and adventure that take the reader all over the world.
Coming up next from her is One Last Shot, book #1 in the Alaska Air Series, coming March 2024:
When music star Oaken Fox joins Alaska Air One Rescue for a reality show, he must work with Boo Kingston, a female EMT who isn't impressed with his fame. She needs a trained rescuer--especially if they're going to find a group of lost hikers. But when a blizzard hits and the search goes south, can he become a real hero, or are they headed for tragedy?
About the author:
A seasoned women’s events speaker, she’s a popular writing teacher at conferences around the nation and the author of the beginning writer’s workbook: The Story Equation.
She is also the founder of www.MyBookTherapy.com, and Novel.Academy, a school for aspiring novelists. You can find her online at www.susanmaywarren.com.
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