Oh how I have missed a new series in the Amish life. this one does not disappoint. I am glad to have the next book from the library to read immediately.
I'm writing this on behalf an elderly neighbor who read the book.
She liked the writing, and was able to follow the people in the book. She told me that the story was interesting and that she was glad to have had the opportunity to read it. She cared about the characters, discussed them with her church friends to which she had lent the book.
Having said that, she also noted that the 'Amish' books are flooding the market by a bucket-full and not all of the books are up to the standard, nor are they all able to bring fresh ideas/stories to the readers. She felt that though the book was well written Q: "a pleasure to read", the stories were 'cookie cut' to use her expression and lacked fresh ideas. She had categorized the book as Q: "very nice but only a one time read", and she was sorry I purchased it at full price for her, instead of renting it from the library.
Her over all assessment was 4*/really liked it
ON A PERSONAL NOTE:
I guess this is a note for the person who wrote the synopsis on the back cover of the book.
Please note that the Amish people, (The Pennsylvania Dutch), are descendants of German settlers in Pennsylvania and their language is GERMAN.
They are not from Holland/Netherlands, (Dutch). Dutch language is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Maarten, and Sint Eustatius
"Deutsch" vs. "Dutch":
'Dutch' is a US version of the word 'Deutsch' meaning German. Therefore the Amish people speak GERMAN!
It is something I can attest to, as I have befriended some of them, (who live in my area) and yup, they speak german, and well surprise, surprise they call it GERMAN language. They read a hundred years old german bible. And though they are referred to as 'The Pennsylvania Dutch = Amish' they definitely do NOT speak 'Pennsylvania Dutch'....
To say that: "... Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, ...' is in it self not just an impossibility, it is bad research, and insult to the PA Amish. *Sigh* I blush for the author....
She liked the writing, and was able to follow the people in the book. She told me that the story was interesting and that she was glad to have had the opportunity to read it. She cared about the characters, discussed them with her church friends to which she had lent the book.
Having said that, she also noted that the 'Amish' books are flooding the market by a bucket-full and not all of the books are up to the standard, nor are they all able to bring fresh ideas/stories to the readers. She felt that though the book was well written Q: "a pleasure to read", the stories were 'cookie cut' to use her expression and lacked fresh ideas. She had categorized the book as Q: "very nice but only a one time read", and she was sorry I purchased it at full price for her, instead of renting it from the library.
Her over all assessment was 4*/really liked it
ON A PERSONAL NOTE:
I guess this is a note for the person who wrote the synopsis on the back cover of the book.
Please note that the Amish people, (The Pennsylvania Dutch), are descendants of German settlers in Pennsylvania and their language is GERMAN.
They are not from Holland/Netherlands, (Dutch). Dutch language is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Maarten, and Sint Eustatius
"Deutsch" vs. "Dutch":
'Dutch' is a US version of the word 'Deutsch' meaning German. Therefore the Amish people speak GERMAN!
It is something I can attest to, as I have befriended some of them, (who live in my area) and yup, they speak german, and well surprise, surprise they call it GERMAN language. They read a hundred years old german bible. And though they are referred to as 'The Pennsylvania Dutch = Amish' they definitely do NOT speak 'Pennsylvania Dutch'....
To say that: "... Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, ...' is in it self not just an impossibility, it is bad research, and insult to the PA Amish. *Sigh* I blush for the author....
Excellent story by Beverly Lewis. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
Beautiful gift book. This is such a good series I can not put it down until I have read all 3 books.
The Thorn by Beverly Lewis is the first book in the Rose series. Rose Ann Kauffman has always been the good daughter in her Amish family. The youngest of several children, at twenty-one, she' responsible for caring for her disabled mother since her brothers are all married with families of their own and elder sister Hen left the community to marry her Englischer husband. Rose's long friendship with the bishop's foster son, Nick, may be the only thing keeping him from leaving the Amish, but what she sees as good friends, Nick may see as something more. Hen, who now has a nearly five-year-old daughter Mattie Sue, suddenly sees all that she gave up when she married Brandon and turned her back on her family. Brandon doesn't understand her desire to begin dressing Plain and spend time with her family, and their fighting causes a fissure in their marriage that may be irreparable. Lewis who is well-known for her Amish novels, isn't resting on her laurels with this new series. I know that a book is engrossing when at night I find myself almost praying for the characters because I've been so completely pulled into their world. Her writing captures the beauty of Amish life, as well as the struggle its young people face to choose the Plain lifestyle. Hen's return to the life she left accurately renders the stark differences between modern culture and the values of the Amish. Rose, as a young woman who doesn't know her own heart, is fresh and thoroughly likable. I'm fascinated to see where the next book, The Judgment, takes these characters.
Nick's Amish brother dies and Nick is blamed and not many believe that he is telling the truth when Nick says that he did not push Christian to his death.Rose does not want to hurt her parents like her sister Hen. So when Nick proposes to Rose and suggests that they go English she says no. He offers to be baptized and marry Rose and be Amish and she says no. Rose is confused but she loves Nick . but agrees to marry Silas. She is making a big mistake but does not see it. Nick leaves the Amish. Will Rose ever see him again?
The Thorn by Beverly Lewis is the first book in the Rose series. Rose Ann Kauffman has always been the good daughter in her Amish family. The youngest of several children, at twenty-one, she' responsible for caring for her disabled mother since her brothers are all married with families of their own and elder sister Hen left the community to marry her Englischer husband. Rose's long friendship with the bishop's foster son, Nick, may be the only thing keeping him from leaving the Amish, but what she sees as good friends, Nick may see as something more. Hen, who now has a nearly five-year-old daughter Mattie Sue, suddenly sees all that she gave up when she married Brandon and turned her back on her family. Brandon doesn't understand her desire to begin dressing Plain and spend time with her family, and their fighting causes a fissure in their marriage that may be irreparable. Lewis who is well-known for her Amish novels, isn't resting on her laurels with this new series. I know that a book is engrossing when at night I find myself almost praying for the characters because I've been so completely pulled into their world. Her writing captures the beauty of Amish life, as well as the struggle its young people face to choose the Plain lifestyle. Hen's return to the life she left accurately renders the stark differences between modern culture and the values of the Amish. Rose, as a young woman who doesn't know her own heart, is fresh and thoroughly likable. I'm fascinated to see where the next book, The Judgment, takes these characters.
Nick's Amish brother dies and Nick is blamed and not many believe that he is telling the truth when Nick says that he did not push Christian to his death.Rose does not want to hurt her parents like her sister Hen. So when Nick proposes to Rose and suggests that they go English she says no. He offers to be baptized and marry Rose and be Amish and she says no. Rose is confused but she loves Nick . but agrees to marry Silas. She is making a big mistake but does not see it. Nick leaves the Amish. Will Rose ever see him again?
