An oddly disconnected, lightly inspiring, and un-suspenseful inspirational romantic suspense novel.
When a pregnant, young Amish woman is betrayed by her boyfriend and banished from her abusive family, she’s sent to an uncle far away, where she meets an EMT who makes her believe in a better future.
Sadie Detweiler discovers she’s pregnant and expects to marry the man who’s been courting her, but instead he cruelly rejects her. Then her father takes her lover’s side: “He’s got no reason to lie, girl”—and turns his back on Sadie: “I’m not your father. You are nothing to me.” She is stunned and humiliated when he sends her away to stay with relatives. Just a few short weeks after she arrives in Kentucky, her grandmother Verba Stauffer dies, and she meets Noah, a kind Amish EMT. Noah knows something isn’t right in the Stauffer household. The family is secretive and suspicious, and at first he thinks perhaps they’re abusing the quiet, pretty Sadie. Soon it’s discovered that Verba was poisoned, and rumors fly that the Stauffers produce and distribute moonshine. Noah likes Sadie, but her family might be dangerous, and he’s not sure how to react to her pregnancy. Yet the more he learns about her, the more he realizes how horribly she’s been treated, especially by the men in her life. Author Gray continues her Amish of Hart County romantic suspense series, which ambles through a story that’s mildly entertaining but lacks depth and edge. The father is villainous, the hero is saintly, the uncle is cartoonishly ineffective and hand-wringing about it. And while the plot offers Sadie the divine gift of a safe new life, it shrugs over the poisoning deaths of four other people.
An oddly disconnected, lightly inspiring, and un-suspenseful inspirational romantic suspense novel.Pub Date: July 24, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-06-246921-2
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Avon Inspire/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: April 30, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 2018
BOOK REVIEW
These letters from some important executive Down Below, to one of the junior devils here on earth, whose job is to corrupt mortals, are witty and written in a breezy style seldom found in religious literature. The author quotes Luther, who said: "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." This the author does most successfully, for by presenting some of our modern and not-so-modern beliefs as emanating from the devil's headquarters, he succeeds in making his reader feel like an ass for ever having believed in such ideas. This kind of presentation gives the author a tremendous advantage over the reader, however, for the more timid reader may feel a sense of guilt after putting down this book. It is a clever book, and for the clever reader, rather than the too-earnest soul.
Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1942
ISBN: 0060652934
Page Count: 53
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 17, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1943
With frank language and patient plotting, this gangly teen crush grows into a confident adult love affair.
Eleven years ago, he broke her heart. But he doesn’t know why she never forgave him.
Toggling between past and present, two love stories unfold simultaneously. In the first, Macy Sorensen meets and falls in love with the boy next door, Elliot Petropoulos, in the closet of her dad’s vacation home, where they hide out to discuss their favorite books. In the second, Macy is working as a doctor and engaged to a single father, and she hasn’t spoken to Elliot since their breakup. But a chance encounter forces her to confront the truth: what happened to make Macy stop speaking to Elliot? Ultimately, they’re separated not by time or physical remoteness but by emotional distance—Elliot and Macy always kept their relationship casual because they went to different schools. And as a teen, Macy has more to worry about than which girl Elliot is taking to the prom. After losing her mother at a young age, Macy is navigating her teenage years without a female role model, relying on the time-stamped notes her mother left in her father’s care for guidance. In the present day, Macy’s father is dead as well. She throws herself into her work and rarely comes up for air, not even to plan her upcoming wedding. Since Macy is still living with her fiance while grappling with her feelings for Elliot, the flashbacks offer steamy moments, tender revelations, and sweetly awkward confessions while Macy makes peace with her past and decides her future.
With frank language and patient plotting, this gangly teen crush grows into a confident adult love affair.Pub Date: April 10, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5011-2801-1
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2018
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