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jennlikesbooks 's review for:
The Shunning
by Beverly Lewis
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!