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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
So Good!
What a shocking end. Now I must read the next book. Loved reading this after visiting Lancaster, PA. Twists and turns.
What a shocking end. Now I must read the next book. Loved reading this after visiting Lancaster, PA. Twists and turns.
UPDATE FROM 3/26/18: I am finding myself still thinking about this book half a year later, and I thought about it, and I really don't know why I only gave it 4 stars. I loved this book, so, it's getting a bump up in rating. Up to 5 now!
I really liked this book! This was the first Amish book I've ever tried. I'm actually considering changing the rating to five stars, but I had some parts I didn't like, which is why I settled on four. Overall though, I enjoyed it.
I really liked this book! This was the first Amish book I've ever tried. I'm actually considering changing the rating to five stars, but I had some parts I didn't like, which is why I settled on four. Overall though, I enjoyed it.
Boring
Nothing really happens until the last 4 chapters. The book also ends on a cliffhanger. I would not recommend it.
Nothing really happens until the last 4 chapters. The book also ends on a cliffhanger. I would not recommend it.
I decided to give this genre a go strictly out of curiosity because I'm working to get out of my reading comfort zone and to read more romance novels. I grew up near Lancaster County, PA, my home was in the midst of Amish farm fields, and I swam in their pond most summers. I've never had any interest in learning more about the Amish culture than what I observed growing up. However having recently gone back to visit at the same time I came aware of this genre of books, I decided to give it a try.
This isn't a great literary work by any stretch of the imagination. The writing is pretty simple and repetitive. However the story was very interesting from the start, and I found the characters realistic and likable. It was a fast easy read. I listened to the audio book and didn't love the narration, but the dialect seems accurate. I'm definitely going to continue to the next in this series, as I want to see how Katie's journey turns out!
This isn't a great literary work by any stretch of the imagination. The writing is pretty simple and repetitive. However the story was very interesting from the start, and I found the characters realistic and likable. It was a fast easy read. I listened to the audio book and didn't love the narration, but the dialect seems accurate. I'm definitely going to continue to the next in this series, as I want to see how Katie's journey turns out!
This was a re-read for me on 5/19/2015 and I still rate it 5 stars :)
Leave it to me to begin yet another series of books that I don't really want to continue after the first one.
It's not that the plot itself is bad. I love reading Amish stories where the main character questions why he or she is Amish and sort of begins to blur the line. But some of it just seemed so ridiculous.
After 22 years of nothing, in the course of about a month, Katie goes from being a good Amish girl to finding out she was adopted, her birth mother trying to find her because she (the birth mother) is dying, running away from her wedding to a bishop, being shunned, etc... and then we not only learn that her dead boyfriend isn't really dead, but that he wants to come back and confess to be reaccepted into the community and wants to see Katie first - this, after she's already left Hickory Hollow to find her birth mother in NYC.
And for whatever reason, the people in this story are really, really fascinated with the dress Katie wore home from the hospital.
I pretty much had this story planned out in my head from the fifth page when she discovered that baby dress.
It wasn't a bad read, though and I'm tempted to keep going to discover what happens, but I need a break. Yeesh!
It's not that the plot itself is bad. I love reading Amish stories where the main character questions why he or she is Amish and sort of begins to blur the line. But some of it just seemed so ridiculous.
After 22 years of nothing, in the course of about a month, Katie goes from being a good Amish girl to finding out she was adopted, her birth mother trying to find her because she (the birth mother) is dying, running away from her wedding to a bishop, being shunned, etc... and then we not only learn that her dead boyfriend isn't really dead, but that he wants to come back and confess to be reaccepted into the community and wants to see Katie first - this, after she's already left Hickory Hollow to find her birth mother in NYC.
And for whatever reason, the people in this story are really, really fascinated with the dress Katie wore home from the hospital.
I pretty much had this story planned out in my head from the fifth page when she discovered that baby dress.
It wasn't a bad read, though and I'm tempted to keep going to discover what happens, but I need a break. Yeesh!
I wanted to like this book. The concept intrigued me. I vaguely remember watching a Lifetime movie based on it. Sadly, I didn't. Katie came off as flat and childish, despite being 22 (or thereabouts). And her marriage to the 40 year old widower with 5 children just rubbed me the wrong way, particularly when he starts talking about how he first had his eyes on her when she was 19...
The whole thing just was a disappointment...
The whole thing just was a disappointment...
I can't resist the Amish! This is very much the first book of a series and I did get sucked in ... let's see if I can resist the second one.
The story of a young Amish girl who finds out she was adopted and not born Amish. The first in a series. This book was also made into a movie, which I was a long time ago, but I never read the book. The movie is mostly the same as the book, but not exactly. I am excited, now that I read the first book, to continue the story and find out what happens next for Katie, and for her beau. They thought he was dead but he has just contacted his sister, after many years of assuming he had drowned. It's very exciting, I can't wait to see what happens.