Can someone just tell me what happens?! " - Lindquistheather, Kind of a coming of age book but this is the first of a 5 book series. " This was an interesting book about an Amish community in Pennsylvania. (Whew!) Now I am searching to find the other four books on cd. That said, I was about to brand this as the book with the worst ending of all time, with the most unresolved story lines, when I figured out it was only the first book in a series of five. Some of the character development is a little one dimensional, but I still found myself getting pulled in. I actually had an Amish housekeep for a while, and I felt Aimee Lilly did a fairly good job of giving her readers a feel for Amish life.
I got to know the Amish people first hand when I spent several years living in North Western Pennsylvania, very near a large Amish community. " I listened to "The Covenant, Abram's Daughters" on cd while driving.
Bethany plans a major marketing push for the new series. (Sept.)įorecast: With nearly three million novels sold, Lewis is a staple on the CBA bestseller charts. However, none of these troubles may deter Lewis's enthusiastic audience. Several events, including a hidden pregnancy that remains unobserved by the family until almost the eighth month, require enormous suspension of disbelief, and readers will see the key plot developments coming from the earliest pages. There are factual errors, as when Ebersol's home garden produce stand features early spring vegetables in the month of August. The characters are flat and unchanging, and the plot functions mostly as a setup for the series.
There are further challenges for the reader: multiple points of view and cumbersome Amish definitions make the novel a bumpy read for the uninitiated. The dialect (perty, redd, Dat, ach, wonderful-gut, jah) is as dense as sugar cream pie, as are the italicized terms. Her beautiful sister Sadie's defiance crosses the boundaries when she becomes involved with Englischer Derek Schwartz. Tomboy Leah's first love is Jonas Mast, but her father Abram has determined she'll marry Gideon Peachey, whose father's farm adjoins the Ebersols'. It's 1946 in Gobbler's Knob, Pa., and Sadie Ebersol and her sister, Leah, are exploring the joys of "rumschpringe" - the period of relaxed rules and running around that Amish teens enjoy prior to their baptism into the church. It should please her fans, while not offering much in the way of fresh material. Inspirational novelist Lewis begins Abram's Daughters, a Lancaster County series about four Amish sisters, in the tradition of her previous novels.
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