The Englisher

As the second in the trilogy I found this book a little weaker than the first. The characters were as engaging as ever but the plot turned in ways I thought a little unrealistic.

Having said that, the story and the multiple plot lines kept my interest. I kept getting the feeling Lewis painted herself into a corner so I'm interested in seeing how this works out in the third book.

As with the first book, I was disappointed that there was not a resolution at the end of the story. The epilogue changes from third person to first and I thought this distracting.

Beverly Lewis does it again! The second installment of Annie's People once again brings you into the delightful heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch Amish country.

Annie Zook is dutifully following her father's wishes that she marry within her faith. But God, and an Englisher named Ben Martin, might have another plan.

This story is a sensory buffet of all that is good about farm country. My mouth watered at the descriptions of the homemade meals, I could smell the scents of the land on the wind and hear the warm voices of family gatherings.

Beverly Lewis graciously and carefully presents the Amish culture in a way that allows the reader greater understanding and presents a wonderful story as well.

A good middle book of a three book series. A lot of it is centered on the visit of Englisher L ouisa (Lou;) Annie's pen pal since childhood. Lou takes up with an Amish guy at the same time Annie falls for an Englisher from Kentucky. There is also the story of Zeke and Esther and the mystery of his brother's disappearance (in childhood) and the bones found that are probably his.

Not much substance to this title. The author does a good job depicting what life is like for the Amish but it is predictible and too simple.

The Englisher appear the focus of this story or mostly part of the story. Beverly does do this gradually. Annie Zook has some struggles to keep the promises that she made with her father who by the way is the preachers.



We go through the struggles with Annie. There another struggle that going on as well. Zeke is struggling with something and it does take the whole book to figure it out. There are surprises and twists throughout the book.



Ben Martin as come to Amish county and has his own secrets. He comes to work in the tack shop. He keeps his secret of what brought him there. He seems to run into Annie. Lou had come and is staying with her pen pal Annie. Lou is embracing the Amish and their ways. Will Lou be back or will she leave.

Delightful presentation of a classic novel.

FROM AMAQZON: Shirley Hollister is desperate. She, her ailing mother, and her four siblings are being forced out of their cramped city apartment. Where to go on her meager stenographer's salary? On a whim, she takes a trolley ride into the countryside and spies a barn: spacious, full of light, and surrounded by God's wondrous nature. Her new landlord, Sidney Graham, is intrigued by this lovely young woman and her plans to turn his abandoned barn into a home.

Famed Christian fiction author Grace Livingston Hill's tale of a plucky girl determined to better her life is full of romance and adventure as Shirley (in escapades reminiscent of Nancy Drew and The Perils of Pauline) confounds spies and show more embezzlers with her quick thinking and profound faith. show less

love and identity,