Review: A sweet romance story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2013
This is Part One of Plain Living:  The Diary.  Sadie Zooks works with her father at his woodworking shop. Abram Byler is her father's apprentice at the shop and he is always talking to Sadie in a way that seems to be criticizing.  Sadie sometimes writes in a journal while at work and she hides it.  One day she accidentally gives it to Abram to take home along with the store receipts for his father who is an accountant.  Abram finds the journal and reads it.  He doesn't want to return it to Sadie because he says she should be working instead of writing in the journal.  Sadie also mentions Nathan Kobel in her journal and Abram worries about Nathan's influence on Sadie.  Sadie has another journal she writes in and she ends up making a deal with Abram.  She will go the ice cream social and allow him to driver her home in his buggy after but he has to return the first journal along with the second one which she gave him with a note in there for him and he has to write something back.  This is the beginning of a very sweet romance.I really enjoyed this story that was a quick read for me in just a few hours.  There were a couple of typos but they didn't detract from the story at all.  I liked seeing Abram kind of relax in his judgment of Sadie and realize when he was wrong.  I enjoy reading Amish fiction and grew to like the characters in this story.  The author definitely left room for The Diary part 2 and I will be on the lookout to read so I can see what will become of Sadie and Abram.I received this ebook free through LibraryThing member giveaways in exchange for an honest review.