Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Finding faith and home -- Home All Along


Beth Wiseman's Home All Along finishes up her Amish Secrets series, stories filled with struggles and joys for a variety of characters -- both Amish and English.

Beth has filled her story with interesting characters, acting and interacting in many complex relationships.  Several events happen that keep the interest level high and the search for the resolution of questions engaging throughout much of the story.  Lessons of trust, love, and forgiveness play out as new issues come up and new characters come on the scene.  Making difficult choices requires evaluating what is important, what faith is all about, and how to find a place that can really be home.
 
Home All Along could probably be enjoyed on its own, but reading the entire series would make the details much more meaningful.  Charlotte's journey from her living a typical English life in Texas to her life in Amish Country is an important thread throughout all three books.  Her connection to her Amish friends, whom she learns to think of as family, is also much better understood after reading the entire series.

Thank you to BookLook Bloggers for providing a copy of the book.  I am happy to share my own thoughts in this review.

About the Book:

Charlotte, an Englisher, is living in Amish Country, and she has formed strong and lasting bonds with the people in her new community. She has even fallen in love with an Amish man. But just when she is considering a permanent conversion to the Amish way of life, her world crashes around her. An unexpected death and a mysterious visitor unsettle Charlotte, and she begins to question her faith and her choices.

Daniel loves Charlotte and wants to share his life with her, even it if means leaving the only world he’s ever known. But as he walks alongside of her through her struggles, his own world is turned upside down when a loved one receives a grim medical diagnosis and a prodigal relative returns home. Will Charlotte and Daniel’s relationship succumb to the many pressures around them, or will their faith and the strong community around them allow them to weather the storms of their own lives in order to build a life together?

About the Author:

Beth Wiseman is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Daughters of the Promise, Land of Canaan, and Amish Secrets series.  While she is best known for her Amish novels, Beth has also written contemporary novels including Need You Now, The House that Love Built, and The Promise.

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