A good book not my normal kind of book but i enjoyed it....
The characters are all well written...This book is based on Sydney Aveys own great Grandmother which i think adds to the book...

The Trials of Nellie Belle

by Sydney Avey
 LLight Message Publishing
Messages Publishing



Biographies & Memoirs ,
Historical Fiction

Pub Date 06 Feb 2018


I am reviewing a copy of The Trials of Nellie Belle through Light Message Publishing and Netgalley:
Nellie Belle's parents marry off Nellie Belle to the ranch foreman, she realizes Motherhood will follow.

At the start of a progressive era she leaves her husband and son in Kansas and takes her two daughters West with her.
Nellie Belle works towards becoming the first woman court reporter to travel the circuit in the region.


In makeshift courtrooms in small towns, as well as growing cities with new Halls of Justice buildings Nellie touches the lives of hardworking men, enterprising women and immigrants. But when her prodigal daughter comes home with baby in arms Nellie will do everything she can to pull her scattered family together again.



I give The Trial of Nellie Belle four out of five stars!


Happy Reading!

This book is based on a true story of Nellie. It skips back and forth in time and is actually quite confusing. This just does not flow well.

Nellie has left her husband to work as a traveling court report. What follows is the story of her and her daughter, as they make a life at the turn of the century.

I'm not sure what to think about this book. The first part of the book was well written and engaging. Then, it seemed that it moved into a series of short stories rather than a novel. The author has serious problems with the passage of time. In one chapter, Opal is getting married and having a baby. In the next chapter, the baby is six and the author is going back in time to explain how the dad died and how Opal came to live with Nellie. With about a hundred pages left in the book, it switched from Nellie's point of view to her granddaughter Leone's. With some editing, I think this could be a good book, but how it stands, I cannot recommend it.