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read a lot of Amish fiction, but have never read anything written by Beth Wiseman so it took me a little time to become used to her writing style.
There were some things in this book that made me question its authenticity at first and at times I found the voices she gave to her characters to be a little modern to really connect with them as Amish.
I'm not saying that she did anything wrong here, it really was a lovely story, it was just not what I expected out of the gate.
Once I got used to her style I thoroughly enjoyed the book and devoured it over the course of two days.
There were enough plot twists and interesting characters to hold my attention and I was really happy with the story that developed around Martha the grumpy English neighbor.


She tackled some issues that are not often seen in Amish fiction and I appreciated this very much.
I think that she wrote about these difficult subjects in a very realistic and sensitive way, Emily's character was beautifully developed and Wiseman did an excellent job of portraying the emotions that one would feel after a traumatic attack.


I was pretty excited to find out that Seek Me With All Your Heart is somewhat of a continuation of Wisemans earlier Daughters of the Promise series.
I look forward to the next book in the Land of Canaan series and will definitely be picking up her earlier books.


View my full review here: sitelink blogspot. com/ I absolutly loved this book, Such a heartwarming story. The lines of communication had been crossed for many of the characters, but each had to Seek God with all their Heart as He led them to places of forgiveness, healing, faith, truth and love.
I highly recommend this book if you haven't read it yet, I look forward to the next book in th series, I really truly liked this story, So very sweet. David has grown to be a wonderful young man, I just love how the characters persevere through the testings of their faith, Such an uplifting story/stories within this book, I am hoping the library has the second book in so I can check it out today :, David Stoltzfus is confused why his family ever left Pennsylvania for an unfamiliar place, But he's determined to get back to Lancaster someday in the future,

Emily Detweiler is a woman with a troubled past, She doesn't trust men after a certain incident and wonders if she'll ever trust again,

They are two young adults who wonder what the Lord has in store for them as they learn lessons along the way.


I enjoyed this book, it was a good read,

I recommend this book to agesand up, Seek Me with all your Heart by Brenda Wiseman

ed for: Mommykins, who loves her some Amish/Inspirational/BibleToting Romances, but thought this was just the outside of enough.


Disclaimer: SPOILERS! Like whoa, majorly, and totally filling the ante room of yon review :

Warning: this book review is rated G.
It is also probably filled with plot inaccuracies due to skimming and boredom but this may be the fault of the author, she was kind of random.
No offense is intended towards the author, only constructive criticism delivered with a pinch of humor and whoatons of snark.


Note: These romances are apparently called “Bonnet Rippers” oh yaya,

Aaahthe INSPIRATIONAL ROMANCE novel! Guaranteed to be free of sex and heavy petting, and chock full of stilted language, properly cited Bible verses and more prayer meetings and hymn singings than the normal church going population could shake a stick at.
Usually, these things are terrible, and terrible as in its not even so bad its funny its justboring, Ditto for the Amish romance, if I have to hear another random use of Pennsylvania Dutch so I feel fully immersed in the culture, dontcha know Im quite sure I shall become ill.

However, every once in a long, long, tookanAmishbuggytogettothegrocerystoretwentymilesintown while, theres one thats fantabulously awful, Such is the case with Beth Wisemans Seek Me with all your Heart thats how it looks on the cover, and just in case were so awesomely caught up in this novel that we just want MORE MORE MORE! Its part of a series! YAY! “A Land of Canaan Novel”.
LGMs from Toy Story go ooooOOOOOOOooooo!
Anyhoo, so this story is loaded as in overloaded WIDE WIDE LOAD with so many MAJOR plot points just in the set up that I was confused if this was one novel, three novels or just a survey of what a happy ending MIGHT look like if all these people with a myriad of horrible pasts got together and hashed out their problems.
Heres the breakdown:
Emily Detweilers family moved from Ohio BUCKEYES! to Colorado after she was raped, Heroine with BIG traumatic event in the past CHECK!
David Stoltzfus LOVE the name! but give me some Yoders and Millers and SchwartzentruberslikeStarshipTroopers too please! had a kidney transplant some years ago in his teens, he now thinks he only has a few years left to live, and hes really, really annoyed that his family has moved from Pennsylvania to Colorado because, umI dont know, maybe he thinks his lost kidney might provide some emotional support if he still lived closer to it.
Hero with MAJOR illness who thinks he is going to DIE!!!! CHECK CHECK!!
To quote the summary: “As Emily and David each struggle with fears that haunt them, their faith and resolve are tested beyond what they could have imagined.
Though its not long before their feelings grow beyond friendship, theyre both too stubborn to follow their hearts, Will it take a cranky, Old Englischer woman to help them see past their own worries Will they realize God has chosen a path for them in this Promised Land”
Will Stoltzfus kidney back in Pennsylvania ever find its way to Colorado to be reunited with its body!!!!! Possibility for nonstereotypical studio character actress cranky older woman who will bake cookies, show love, get an inward and outward makeover and become less cranky all while unknowingly blessing and assisting our bearded hero and bonneted heroine towards emotional healing and greater faith and true love major inhale CHECK CHECK CHECK!!!
Okay, sotheres A LOT going in this book, but not in a good way.
Usually, the author picks either a majorly emotionally/physically scarred hero or heroine, and the other player might have issues but not scary awful major ones.
Here, weve got both of them so depressed they should be kept far, far, away from the harvester, the hay baler and the food processor.
Which means, MAJOR TOUCHING MOMENTS AHEAD! Break out the extraabsorbent hankies!!!!! Then theres the cranky “Englischer” woman heading for hell but managing to get back on the straight and narrow way to heaven by healing her own inner wounds by lending support avec adorable crankiness to the two MAJORLY wounded main charactersand, in case you were wondering, no, you totally dont see her in every Lifetime/Hallmark/Feature Films For Families made for TV movie thats been released since.
Honest.
ON TO THE READING!!! Or, as Dr, Jackson from Freshman Rhetoric used to say, “Let us peek into the text!” Our story opens with Emily Detweiler working in an Amish like, grocery/bulk food/buyyourfloursugaroatmealingiantcleartrashbags store I LOVE me an Amish bulk foods storewith the honey in the giant white ten gallon bucket labeled HUNNY Zowwee!!!.
It is here that our noble, heroic, singlekidneyed at least, single original kidneyed, he got that transplant hero ventures to purchase a ten year supply of flour and possibly twenty pounds of brown sugarpoints for Anne of Green Gables reference!.
Of course, they dont have what he wants because, as Dear Damaged Emily points out in highly eloquent prose:
“This is is a salvage store.
” Her fingers ached as she twisted the strings of her apron tighter, “We sell freight and warehouse damaged groceries, ” She bit her lip, but didnt take her eyes from him, ”

Keep in mind, this book is in largeass print, okay So I feel like the author is MAKING A REALLY BIG POINT ABOUT THIS!!! Anyway, yes, I understand at this point Ms.
Wiseman is attempting to kill two Amish birds with one stone YODER BIRDS!: show Emilys understandable discomfort around men, and explain to us idiot English people what a “salvage store” isall through delightfully scintillating dialogue and internalized thoughts.
SuhWEEEEET! And, as a side note, I so totally want to buy me some warehousedamaged groceriesdo they have like, weevils in them One must always choose the lesser of two weevils ah HAHAHAHAHAHAhafine, whatever, moving on!
So, David Stoltzfuzz is like, SO not happy:

“He threw up his hands in the air.
Emily thought his behavior was improper for an Amish man”

one, hes throwing them up I know the phrase but it just sounds weird when you add “in the air” because you know, if you hadnt said that, I might have thought he was throwing them somewhere else AWAY from himself.
I mean, honest mistake, right His kidneys still Lonesome in Lancaster so maybe he can detach his hands and make apoint jump shot with them or somethingpoints for totally possibly misused sports reference!
Also, why is irritation/indignation/annoyance/showoftemper “improper” for an Amish person Likethey dont get mad Because Im pretty sure theyre likemembers of the human species.
Its not like she said he swore or anythingoh well, what do I know
NOTHING, I shall defer to the ALL KNOWING Brenda WISEman, MOVING ON!
So his exasperation frightens her and she freaks and tells him to leave if he doesnt like the place and hes like, dag, yo it be a LONG drive to Monte Cristo with a buggy in the snow!! And then her brother gets there and shes all crying because he doesnt like her store or because they dont have cheese and milk or something this is all to impress upon us the emotional trauma that one has if theyve been raped and then her brother comes in and is like I WILL CUT YOU STOLTZWUZZY! And hes all “bro I didnt do NOTHIN!” and then Emily “straightened her kapp” and then big brother tells Emily to “go back to the haus”
YAY! We get to learn random bits and pieces of Pennsylvania Dutch in order to give the story an authentic feel!!!!!!
LGMs go ooooOOOOOOOOoooo!!!!!!
Seriously “straightened her kapp” and “go back to the haus” Like, they would really randomly say that Damnit, Beth, they speak ENGLISH too! Now I feel like you just thought, “HmmmI am writing an Amish romance.
If I use stilted dialogue and a small smackeral smidgen of the dialect sprinkled on top, then bake it atfor aboutminutes in my hawt haus, Ill end up with an authentic piece of romantical kapp wearing krap!”
On top of that, in case you were sitting there tilting the book about like the illiterate Gaston going “what the f is a kapp and a haus” she includes a wonderfully helpful BOLD printed minor dictionary in the beginning.
Because, you know, I was just dying to know if “Aamen” really was “Amen” or if “Englisch” was really the same thing as “English”.
Has she never heard of “translation by context” Or the fact that, English being a Germanic/French postlanguage and Pennsylvania Dutch being a derivative of Palatinate German, we might look at those words and just kind of, you know, figure it out for ourselves Although, I was kind of wavering for a few moments between haus translating as either a house or the Bonanza character Hoss who was as big as a hoss horse and a haus and house all put together.
But, given the context, I rightfully settled upon a house, phew!. Dear Ms. Wiseman, most authors, when they include nonEnglish words or dialogue, dont give us a dictionary, because, quite frankly, thats annoying.
Or, as your dictionary would say, “dumm” can you guess what it MEANS!!!!
But, you know, major props because, in this book, every time someone is told to return to their haus it is always their haus and never their house so without that dictionary we might have been wondering if they were all randomly leaping into hobbit holes or something.
YAY! OR, its a curse, as in “Why dont you go back to your HAUS of DOOOM!!!!!”
Moving on!
So David StoltzenFuzzy meets Emilys bro Jacob whos like “WAZZZZZZUUUUUUP!” and they like do some Top Secret Amishbowlcut Handshake just guessing and hes like “is yo sister a NUT” and hes like “Nooooo, shes just WOOOOUNded” and then little cute plotmoppet sister Betsy comes in and shes described as follows:

“a little girl came through the door.
She was wearing a black cape and a black kapp and black shoes, She came to stand near the counter before David, She thrust her hands on her hips and scowled at him and chewed her lip, ”

WOWone, Im confused, she was wearing a black kape, kapp and klodhoppers but was she wearing a DRESS and SOCKS I am SO sick of authors telling me soooooo many details in really choppy ways, if you want like, lines and lines of description thats fine but could the sentences be a little easier to read Talk about an overusage of pronouns, I think she used up her novels quota by page three.
And, okay, the horrible laying out of how shes walking, standing, arm position, facial expression yada yada is really really really really REALLLY unnecessary.
Im thinking in my head “okay wait let me picture thisfeet here, hands there, face like that, mouth like that, eyes looking here, okay got it so then what happens” Like, lady, we all have an imagination, we can figure a few things out for ourselves, dont be such a control freak, it sounds like you were sitting there thinking “AND DONT YOU DARE THINK HER ARMS WERE CROSSED OR SHE WAS STANDING NEAR THE DOOR BECAUSE I was there I was there he DIED ON THAT ISLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

anybody

crickets

sigh minus ten points for ineffective National Velvet reference.


Moving on.

So, Im also impressed that the little girl can say krap while chewing on her lip and thrusting her hands on her hips which is, I think, a wrong way to use that verb because the image is like a weird game of hokeypokey all while scowling too, so its kind of like playing that really dumm Josephine game, but hey, what do I know Anyhoo, so the plot moppet also wants to be a vegetarian, and she is SMART were told this, in like, a solitary sentence.
“She is smart. ” Woot! because:

“she is in a program for gifted children at school”

she gives her family a lengthy lecture on how vegetarianism will reduce her risk of heart disease and improve the regularity of her bowels

Well this obviously won the American Heart Associations Seal of Approval

SuhWEEEEET.
Someones fudging their word count wink

And she tells Mr, David StoltzenFer that:

“I want you to know that if your behavior instigated this outpouring of emotion from my sister, it would be best for you if you did not visit us here again.
”

No seriously, thats what she said, and shes SEVEN, Now, I was an ornery little punkass kid who read Shakespeare at seven but I dont think my friends or I wandered around delivering such brilliantly stilted lines of dialogue to strange dudes in grocery storeskrap, thats a salvage store.
Id better calm my temper before I throw up my hands into Mississippi and let my improper exasperation show.

Moving on!
So then we find out about Emily/Jacob/Betsys “bruder Levi”, and Im guessing some extra bruders and cousins named Ezekiel and Ezra and Noah and Jebadiah and Obadiah and Mephibosheth are going to show up here soon because so far were on a ROLL!
So, Jacob invites the scary improperly exasperated StoltzFuzzenator back to the HAUS for the DINNER which to me was really insensitive to the Emily and therefore kind of illogical in terms of plotting but our author was desperate to throw this kouple together and she figured “inviting a stranger back to haus is soooooo GUUUT!” so they break bread and probably milk a few cows while singing Amish Paradise and then Mamm sends him home with cookies and other various munchies after he and Emily have begun to progress from foot staring to optical intercourse see Bob Jones University Definition: “staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex” as in, look DEEEEP into my EYES!!!! But be careful you dont make any eyebabies, because now she can look into his:

“blazing blue gaze”

O.
M. G. like whoa! Turn up the AC because its getting HOTTTT!!!! Tall Dark amp Loser in the HAUS! And they invite him to a hymn sing at their haus and then poor Emily is like geez rents whats with the sudden overthetop pressure of shoving weird guys into the haus Like, theyre not insensitive, they just wish that she would get married and have babies and move out of the haus because shes like twenty and by this time all her friends have herds and flocks and veritable droves of bopplis and kinner which are frenziedly flips thirtyfive pages back to glossary babies and children.

MOVING ON!
So Emily is like Ive got only FOUR DAYS to find a way to NOT BE IN THE HAUS during that hymn sing!!!.
. . ahem well, Emily, if I were your therapist I would suggest that you use the door to escape, but youre right, it might take you four days to find it.
Ms. Wiseman really needs to work on her likewriting in general,
So anyhoo, David is with his aenti and onkel, EEEE GADS! flipping back aunt and UNCLE finds BIG PERMANENT MARKER and writes in translations in margins, whatever, Im going to just change the word to “Ents” he he he named Ivan and KatieAnn

Not.
Saying. Anything.

Who apparently have marital problems because Ivan was unfaithful with some other schtinkiching mudder you see what I did I used the glossary and put two words together!!!! I AM learning from this book! I am I AM!!! and then Davids like yakking about how the Deadwheelers have like a big haus and then KatieAnn:

“Moved toward David and touched his arm.
She could still see him as a teenage boy, sick from kidney failure, which had been the scariest thing her family had ever gone through.
And look at him now, A tall, handsome young man, ”

Wow. Great prose. standing ovation NOT. Okay, lady Im pretty sure kidney failure isnt like a disease, its caused by other internal issues or an underlying condition that RESULTS in kidney failure, you arent just like “oops, dag yo, this damn kidney decided to bonk out on me”.
But then, these are unusual kidneys, because David didnt want to leave Pennsylvania because that was too far away from his failed oneor something.
Anyhoo, love that paragraph. MOVING ON!
So Katie Ann tells David:

“Tell Lillian Davids schtinking stepmudder that I will help her with that big haus.
”

with what big haus With THAT big haus! warning, I do this a LOT, What a LOT THIS a LOT!

“Because I know there is much to do, ”

WOW. These people talk like those godawfulst reader kids that we werent allowed to read because, apparently, the padres thought it would teach us really lame improper prose such as:

“See Jane.
See Spot. See Jane see Spot! See Jane run, See Spot run after Jane and CHEW HER LEG OFF!!!!!!” yeahIm just gonna leave that there J

Anyhoo, so Ms.
Wiseman informs us that David “was of marrying age now” bleh and that KatieAnn hopes he will find someone to marry OMG who do you think it will BE!!!!!!!sssshhhhh! its a surprise ending, Im sure! and then we learn the BIG MISUNDERSTANDING THAT WILL SCARE US KRAPLESS UNTIL WE REALIZE IT WAS just a big misunderstanding
David got a kidney transplant when he was fifteen.
But then he overheard his parents talking and he thought they implied that his transplanted kidney would only last ten years sh those things are like cheap toaster ovens, you know They just short out after a few years and so now that hes like twenty or something he thinks he has five years left MAX!!!! OH NOOOOOOOO ferDOONS!!!!!!
Does he ask his parents when he comes of age to verify this information Does he go to his doctor which he has to have because were told hes taking lots of prescriptions for his Lone Kidney and ask if likeyou knowIm DYING Does he think its odd that for the past five years that hes been going to his doctor, the doctor hasnt been like “soooany feelings of fatigue, vision loss, exploding organs, vomiting your innardsIMPENDING DOOOM”

Nope.


Hes just like, dag yo, my ears dont lie! Im gonna die! CHANT IT WITH ME!!!!!

Gregorian monks go OOOOoooOOOOOoooo

SoyeahI had an argument ahem DISCUSSION with mummykins about how illogical a plot point this is.
Because, seriously, the whole “BIG MISUNDERSTANDING” is like major nono number one in romancelandia, A source of conflict cant exist just because some character misunderstood something they overheard five years ago and had five years to verify and never did.
That means we have drumroll a Too Stupid To Live Hero!!!! Which, he is, and apparently his kidneys have noticed this and are defecting.
Or at least, he thinks they are, Mommy dearest argued that you might not conceivably talk to your doctor about thatmaybesort ofand I said, yeah, if youre like a dumbass or something.

So anyway, David ends up spending lots of time at manly manual labor because hes putting a toilet in his haus.


. Romance loving soul cries buckets of symbolic angelic pellucid tears

Why couldnt he be putting up a barn I mean, really, WHY And why do all the little kids have to keep complaining about how stinky and schtinking the outdoor toilet is

Romance Rule: Thy hero shall only pursue manly and romantical endeavors that shall permit thee to write of the muscles and the man chests and thus and verily I say unto thee thou shall in this way encourage thy heroines good opinion of his great muscular manly powerfulness.


Barn pine, sawdust, saws! AXES! NAIL GUNS!!!! The guy on Brawny paper towels or from the Old Spice commercials!!!

Toilet septic tank, leaky pipes, fat plumbers, fat plumbers with low riding jeansrwar!!!!

O.
M. G. Yay

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