An Old Poem: The Knight

While I was looking through my old journals today I found a poem I wrote when I was about 14 or 15.  I actually thought it was pretty good.  I clearly read too many romantic fiction books:)

The Knight

A knight rode on a noble steed

To rescue a main fair

The knight was very handsome indeed

The maiden had long, flowing hair

The maiden she was held

Much against her will

By an evil wizard jailed

Whose plan it was to kill 

The knight rode in upon his horse

The wizard in his eyes

To rescue was his valiant course

The maiden was his prize

In the rescue he did succeed 

And killed the wizard for his deed

A Bride for Keeps ~ Melissa Jagears

A Bride for Keeps is a pretty good book.  This book was a cute story.  Everett and Julia both seem pretty clueless about the opposite sex.  Seeing their relationship progress was fun.  They were both unique characters that showed Melissa Jagears has really good potential as a writer.

This book was written by Melissa Jagears who is a new author.  I believe her next book will be even better.  As mentioned before, she does show great potential and her characters were good.  However, this book did remind me a lot of Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly.  I had a very hard time not comparing the two.  I believe A Bride for Keeps is a little hard for a debut book because of the comparison.  Janette Oke is a legend in Christian fiction and it would be hard to have everybody comparing the two books.  Though, it is an honor to Janette Oke that Melissa Jagears chose to make her book have a similar basic plot line.

When I do not compare A Bride for Keeps to Love Comes Softly I can see that Melisssa Jagears is a great author.  Her characters are very unique and stories are cute.  This story was very sweet.  

* I received this book for free from Bethany House Publishers in exchange for a review*