Review: Not what I was expecting...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2013
I read alot of Amish Romance stories. 1) you can find several FREE books for Kindle and 2) they're CLEAN. Alot of free books for Kindle have raunchy, porn-like sex scenes in them. Without the sex, Amish Romance novels focus more on the relationship between the two people and their devotion to God, above all.This book was short. I read it in about an hour while my son was napping this afternoon.This book wasn't what I was expecting. The relationship between the courting couple wasn't really the focus of this story; the hateful mother who despised her daughter and viciously emotionally abused her was the focus. As stated above, I read alot of Amish Romance, and I haven't really met a character I didn't like that wasn't redeemed or didn't repent and change their ways by the end of the story. SPOILER ALERT-- that doesn't happen for this character. Toward the end, she gets nuttier and nuttier, with crazy thoughts entering her head and spewing out of her mouth. She finally decides to leave and a peace falls over Peace Crossing.. BUT WAIT, then she's back. And in a simple paragraph, she meets her end and the characters move on. It's almost like the storyline got away from the author, or she didn't quite know what to do with this woman once she dove off the deep end... It wasn't a bad story, I just didn't really connect with the characters as much as I wanted to.