Review: Great concept that just did not get executed well.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
I wanted to like this book so badly, I really did. I thought the cover was exceptionally well done, and I loved the idea of the story, but I felt it could have been executed better. It is slow, and there is a lack of imagery that I was not impressed with. Too much showing, not enough telling. I was unhappy with how jerky the language was.My husband's family IS/WAS Amish, so I was fine with the use of Pennsylvania Dutch Language and the Italicized words. In that vein I took issue with the idea that work is still being delegated to in such terms, because that is not the way of it in my, my husband's or my cousin's (who does concrete paving with the Amish) community.This book had so much potential, but just fell flat.