A Great Catch Review

This time I am going to review A Great Catch by: Lorna Seilstad.

Emily Graham is the president of her local suffrage movement and she pours herself into her cause. Her meddlesome aunts and grandmother think she should settle down, but Emily has other ideas. She’s determined to chase away any suitor and her constant clumsiness aids her cause. Her plans are dashed when baseball pitcher Carter Stockton enters the picture. Emily fights to keep her work for the suffrage movement at the forefront of her mind, above all else, but Carter proves to become increasingly distracting.

I’ve loved the Christian Fiction genre for awhile now. Most of the time when I read all the inspirational messages in them, I haven’t really been struck by anything I didn’t already know. Books in this genre have a whole lot of great advice, but normally it’s all stuff I already knew from being a Christian.

This book however, blew me to pieces in that department. I identified so much with Emily. All the lessons she learned really hit home. Lorna Seilstad masterfully wrote this book and Emily’s struggles. Not once did I feel like anything in this book was fake. More than any other book, the lessons in this one really made an impact.

All the characters are unique and fun to read. They all have depth and their struggles are really poignant. The secondary characters really help further the story. This book wouldn’t have been the same without them.

The plot moved along nicely and at a pleasant pace. I never got bored during this book and I loved reading the budding romance between Emily and Carter. They had many obstacles to overcome and it made the book feel more like real life.

I really loved this look into the Women’s Suffrage Movement. It makes me so proud of the many brave women in our history that worked so hard to give us the many rights we have today. Not all of them got to see the day when women could vote, but if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t know that right either.

Lorna Seilstad did an excellent job in including the movement in her book. She really represented all the attitudes raging at that time: from the hardworking and fired-up suffragettes to the bull-headed opposers. I really felt like this book gave an excellent glimpse into what it could have been like during that time.