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good one.

I really like these sensual Amish stories by Blair, I wish there was more of them to read, Maybe someday I loved this book and gobbled it up in two days!! This was a great story! I loved it but didn't give itbecause at some places it jumped oddly and the punctuation wasn't always right.
Amish story love story, with each suffering childhood loss/abuse
Amish woman Sara Lapp, all but shunned for studying with the English doctor to become a midwife, is shocked that, after months of waiting, her first call to tend a birth comes from selfappointed outcast Mad Adam Zuckerman.
For his wifes sake, Sara boldly tells Adam that he is killing Abby with so many babies so close, but Abby is already dead.


Adam did not call Sara to tend the birth, but to give her his children, Though Sara knows Abbys girls belong with their father, how can she leave them with a man who seems not to care for them As much as she loves and wants the girls, she decides that she will only take them long enough to teach Adam to love them.


As a child Adam heard the words, “I do this because I love you,” with his fathers every abuse, Adam is afraid to love his children, afraid that in doing so, he will hurt them, Without Abby to protect them, Adam must find someone else, and he can think of only one woman strong and brave enough, Spinster Sara Lapp.
I definitely didn't expect this from this author, I have read her PNR books and this one couldn't be more different, This one is a really cute, sweet, innocent love story set before in the late's, about a sassy Amish woman and a stubborn Amish man.
Sara is a spinster with no family bucking the culture and being a midwife, Adam's wife just died after giving birth the theirth daughter inyears, Both of these people have baggage galore and they spend most of the story trying deal with how they feel about each other.


If you are looking for a really good feel good story make sure to check this one out, I thought it was a very good book with believable characters, Interesting to learn more about the Amish, Amish woman Sara Lapp is shunned for studying to become a midwife, Her first call to tend a birth comes from Mad Adam Zuckerman, But Adam's wife has already died, and Sara learns that Adam called her only to take his children, Adam is afraid he will hurt his children in the way his father hurt him, Without his wife to protect them, Adam must find someone else, and he can think of only one woman brave enough, Sara, whose passion for things beyond her control is greater than is good for her.
When Adam is hurt, Sara and his girls move in, When the Bishop insists that they marry or be shunned Sara and Adam face the greatest challenge of their lives, Unfinished. The premise of this book sounds intriguing though I honestly did not see the cover with the description of “sensual Amish historical”but Im aboutin and its not my thing.
Lacking so much depth of character and things moved FAST after this poor woman died in childbirth, The midwife is forced to move in with the widower to care for his children after an accidentthen theyre forced to get married after like a secondlike I said Imin!!! Not gonna waste my time.
This is a beautiful book that's a well written story of healing and hope, It's predictable but that makes it comfortable, I absolutely cannot fathom why this book possibly has so few bad reviews, The story line was so jumpy that from the beginning of the book to the point where they get married note:pages in, the author could have easily stretched that into a book alone.
Months passed within paragraphs, and integral plot was skipped over, Because of this, the two main characters went from hating each other to falling in love, with no explanation of the time in between.


My kingdom for some description! I have no idea what even one of the characters look like, aside from the fact that they're male or female and a rough age range.
The only time we even figure out Sara's hair color is during one of the many sex scenes, which are by far not the norm for an Amishthemed book, and unnecessary in my opinion.
This genre generally isn't sought out by those who want to read something so explicit,

Half the time, I thought that Adam was a werewolf or something, with the way he was carrying on about how he had to hold himself back and couldn't be allowed to love and couldn't get a woman pregnant, for fear of her life.
His reactions and inner monologue were far too extreme to be for the reason it was,

The interaction with Jordan, the doctor, was also inappropriate, Sara acted like she either had an ongoing relationship with the man, or had in the past, She was a married woman and he was kissing her, cuddling up to her, and she was stroking his cheek and smiling fondly to wake him from his sleep with his head in her lap.
No forgiveness was asked for these actions, even though they were by far not those found in a normal friendship, He also had feelings for Adam's sister, which just ended up looking inappropriate, because we never found out what his sister's age was and she was made out to be around thirteen or fourteen, with the way she was acting.
This made the doctor into a pervert,

I have never heard a child speak like his children did, either using "my" instead of "I" was extremely, teethgrindingly annoying, and it was never corrected.
"My doesn't want you to go" What in the world is that

Not a good book, If it was stretched out, description was added, a chill pill was given to Adam, and time was given for events to occur, then maybe it could have been salvaged in some way.
Please don't waste your time on something that will only annoy you, Sara is a midwife in and Ohio Amish community, She is called to her friend Abby's home to deliver her fourth baby, When she arrives Adam, Abby's husband is waiting for her on the front porch, He gives her a hard time when she tells him he is killing his wife having babies so close together, He finally lets her in to go to Abby, and discovers Abby is dead and the baby is wrapped up and in the cradle by the bed.
Sara lifts the sheets and discovers that Abby had bled to death,

Adam is filled with demons from his abusive childhood and tells Sara she must take his children, She fights him on this, but relents, She falls in love with the girls, The time for her to return the girls to their father is pushed back until the time when Adam falls from a tree and injures himself.
Sara moves into his house to nurse him back to health, Adam begins to fall in love with Sara, but he denies what he is feeling, The Bishop gets involved and the outcome of their hearing is that they must marry, They fall madly in love with each other and Adam learns that he can love without being abusive like his

father,

I enjoyed this book, however, there are some scenes which are more adult that most of the book, Great fast read loved it. I seriously want Sara as a friend! Adam, . . what can I say Loved the Way Annette wrote this relationship, . . I need to read more of her work! Oh and is there an Emma based story out there I've never read an Amish romance before, although I was familiar with the concept.
If this one's typical, I don't think I'll seek out any more,

At first I really liked it, but it dragged on, with huge gaps and then things happening too closely together without enough explanation in the text like a character just appearing in someone's house for no reason.
And both characters got increasingly histrionic as the story progressed, lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth without nearly enough reason for it.


I was also annoyed by the depiction of the Amish lifestyle, Apparently they had it pretty easy the husband is able to take seven weeks off, during planting season, to drop a stranger's family off somewhere safe, and while he's gone his wife and children frolic in their butterfly garden rather than slaving away on the farm.
It's okay, because the neighbour does the husband's chores for him apparently the neighbour doesn't have anything better to do with his time, either, and apparently all farmers do is barn chores.
Well, later on there was mention of "harvest chores", but given that they'd never apparently bothered to plant anything I'm sure the harvest couldn't have been too onerous!

And there seemed to be strange contrasts in just how rigid the rules were.
. . the husband had to keep his whiskers trimmed to the proper length to avoid censure, but it was okay for the wife to trot all over the place with the English doctor, snuggling with him and caressing him in public Really

I don't know.
I'm glad I read it, just to say I've given the Amish Romance thing a try, .