Cold Comfort

I am a sucker for a good historical fiction in rural America, especially around the early 20th century. I don’t know if it just makes me feel close to my grandmother, or if it fulfills a yearning I have for a life that was easier and simpler than where we are now. But I confess that affection to exp......more

The first Mountain Women book kept me interested enough in the characters and plot to stick with it. I really wanted to know where Wanda ended up, so I went on to read this second book. As in the first book, I was a little overwhelmed with the numerous characters introduced and going back and forth......more

Cold Comfort (Mountain Women #2) by Carol Ervin (Audiobook Read On Hoopla app) I really wanted to like this book as it was set in West Virginia but it just wasnt My style of book. In the book Wanda Wyatt is left penniless and returns to the Grandmother she hates, ex moonshiner Lucie. Wanda returns w......more

A fairly good story I would have liked to give "Cold Comfort" a 5 but it started out really slow for me and too much emphasis on how to build a bootleggin still. About 1/3 through the book it finally started to get some action to make me interested in finishing the book. I also would have liked to kn......more

I enjoyed the strong women characters. Seeing Wanda grown and going back to where she was born. It wasn’t a complicated story but it was very entertaining to me. To hear how women had to work if they wanted anything. What they had to put up with. And the influence of alcohol all through the story br......more