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Leahs Choice (Pleasant Valley V1)
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An Amish woman, Leah, relies on her faith as she is courted by two suitors: widower and newcomer to Pleasant Valley, Daniel Glick, and her former fianc, Johnny Kile, who seeks reconciliation after choosing to leave the community. Original.
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The first of three Amish-set novels in which a woman's faith must guide her through challenging times.
All of Pleasant Valley seems to think the newcomer from Lancaster County is the perfect match for Teacher Leah. After all, so few new families come to their separate Amish community, and fewer still unmarried men. Daniel Glick is a widower with three young children to look after-clearly he's in need of a wife.
Daniel's past haunts him. Though he cannot miss the beauty in Leah's bright eyes and patient ways, he also sees a reminder of his pain-filled marriage. Leah, too, has a burden to bear. Years ago, she was engaged to Johnny Kile, and she was heartbroken when he decided to leave the Amish community. Since then she has immersed herself in teaching, forgetting any hopes of having her own family. When Johnny returns, seeking reconciliation, Leah must decide between two pathways, either of which will completely change her life.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 312
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 5" Height: 8"
Weight: 0.55 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Nov 1, 2009
Publisher Penguin Group USA
ISBN 0425230503
EAN 9780425230503
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Availability 8 units.
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 | Finally, out of the bubble Amish Fiction Nov 19, 2009 |
This book is one of few Amish books that I think really gets it. By it, I mean it allows the reader to enter the Amish world, yet does not try to push Amish beliefs on them, does not paint the Amish lifestyle as ideal or makes the world feel as if you're living in a bubble. I really enjoyed this book for the realistic way the Amish and the English worlds are portrayed.
This book talked a lot about subjects that I have never read in Amish fiction before. The one that stood out the most was the medical issues. This book mentioned a great deal about birth defects and other medical problems that stem from communities that continue to live in close proximity and only marry within that community. This is something I have never read in any other Amish book I have picked up and is a topic that I have always wondered about due to the circumstances of who someone can marry. Therefore kudos to Marta Perry for bringing this up. It may be a sore subject that no one wants to talk about but to deny that it exists because it makes the community look not so ideal is not helping anyone either. Honestly I feel like other authors don't bring it up because it breaks the bubble of the image that they are trying to portray of making Amish lifestyle appealing.
I thought I was going to have problems with Daniel due to comments he made early in the book but after finding out about his background, I understood him a lot better. His family's past was unique to the typical Amish storyline and even more so by the way he handled the situation. As for Johnny, I really liked the way his storyline played out. Everyone (for the most part) ends up where they want to be.
Honestly this is one of the most refreshing Amish novels I have ever read. I didn't feel as if this book was unrealistically portrayed and the outside world is seen in a positive light for once. If the rest of the series continues to be written in the same manner and tackles difficult but necessary subjects, it might possibly rank as one of my favorite Amish books. That being said, if you want a dose of reality with your Amish fiction, pick up this book. | | |  | The meshing of two lives. Nov 12, 2009 |
| Leah's Choice was a little too slow moving for me. Leah was engaged to Johnny Kile at the age of 19 but Johnny decided he didn't want to be Amish and left Leah to pursue a life in the English world. Leah became a school teacher not wanting to marry because she thought it was her fault that Johnny left her. Daniel Glick and his 3 children move to Pleasant Valley at the same time Johnny Kile comes back to Pleasant Valley which confuses Leah greatly. It is slow moving romantic story keeping you wondering if Leah was going to fall back in love with Johnny or if there would be anything romantic between Leah and Daniel. The book has a good ending and all in all I thought it was a book worth reading. Someone else reading Leah's Choice might have a different opinion. | | | | Thoroughly enjoyed it Nov 9, 2009 |
This book points out very clearly that at times in our lives we have critical choices to make. Although our choices might be personally satisfying, they often cause pain and sorrow to others.
I appreciate the fact that the author included a glossary of Pennsylvania Dutch words and phrases. It helped in understanding the text of the book.
A very good book and easy reading.
| | |  | Has a Fragmented Feel To It Nov 9, 2009 |
So the beginning 2/3 or maybe even 3/4 of the book or so just felt like a series of incidents, unconnected. There wasn't much flow & I was left feeling, "Where in the world is this plot going?" The situations were good ones that if well developed rather than briefly touched, could have made for a strong story. The author should have either cut some things out or made it flow better, developing the situations more.
The author has potential, though, which can be noticed in how well the end of the book read. The plot was moving at a good pace and there weren't random events thrown in that felt out of place.
The book includes a Pennsylvania Dutch glossary at the end, although typically the Pennsylvania Dutch is easily deciphered in this novel with context clues alone. The author also includes an excerpt from one of her next books at the end of this book. | | | | entertaining Amish romance Nov 7, 2009 |
Widower Daniel Glick moves with his three young children to Pleasant Valley in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Amish townsfolk welcome the single dad and his brood especially since everyone believes he is perfect for their schoolteacher of then Leah Beiler; and she would be the perfect wife to him and an ideal mom to his three young kids (Matthew, Elizabeth and Jonah).
Daniel is attracted to Leah, but he has doubts after his unhappy first marriage. Adding to his growing hesitation is the return of Leah's ex-fiancé, Johnny Kile who wants a second chance with her. Will Leah choose a ready family, the man who broke her heart or neither?
This is an entertaining but somewhat by the book Amish romance that although for the most part provides nothing new fans will still enjoy it. The conflict is the relationship choices that Leah must make and for that matter Daniel too. Whereas she must choose between her first love who dumped her for the outside world and a steady man who has proven to be a good mother and father to his kids. He knows he must put those kids ahead of his desires. With a nod to Roy Orbison's Running Scared, readers will appreciate Marta Perry's fine passionate contemporary mindful of the works of Wanda E. Brunstetter.
Harriet Klausner
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