This jumbo volume encases three bestselling and highly praised novels by Wanda E. Brunstetter. On a quiet September weekend, plans for a fun outing turn tragic when a van load of Amish teenagers is struck by a semi-truck. Four young women’s lives are forever changed by the event.
My Thoughs:
I love to get a set of books combines into one and this one is just that, plus
it is about the Amish and written by my first and formost favorite author Wanda
Brunstetter.
It is really hard to write just a little about each of the
books but I will try, I like to tell the complete story.
A Cousin's
Promise starts with a group of the Amish young single people on their way to
Hershey Park for a day of fun, they had hired an English driver and with no
knowledge what lay ahead for them.
As a bee got in the van and Katie
started trying to get someone to get it out and the driver looked back for a
second and that was all it took as they swerved onto the wrong side of the road
and meet a large truck. When some of them awoke they were broken up and three
were killed. No one imagined how this was going to affect their young lives in
the future.
As you read this book, you hurt and even cry with these young
people. Some of them were engaged and this affected them. Will anything ever get
back to normal in the Amish community in Indiana.
A Cousin's Prayer is
the second books of the series "Indiana Cousin's" and as the first one it
features one person more that the others. In this on Katie Miller is still very
depressed from losing her fiancée Timothy. She is really having a hard time with
something she has no knowledge of what it is but if she leaves home she gets
really sick and has an attack that feels as she is going to die. "I know how
this is because I go through the same thing, I do not like to leave my
house".
Everyone is really worried about her and she finds a friend that
she went to school with and she can talk to him more that she can anyone else.
Freeman Bontranger has his own bicycle shop and loves his work. The Amish are
like the rest of the country they are having a hard time with jobs and making a
living.
Freeman befriend Katie and tell her things about himself he has
never told anyone else. The family encourages her to go to a counselor but at
first her Mom went with her and answered all the questions, so the counselor
told the Mom for her not to come in with Katie anymore. Katie told her mom that
she didn't even want her to go with her in the car that they hire. Freeman
started going with her, but another young woman has set her mind to have Freeman
and she stats telling tells about Katie.
This book features Jolene who
had lost her hearing in a car accident and she was living with her aunt in
Pennsylvania where she lad learned how to sign and read lips. She was teacher in
her hometown of Topeka, Indiana, now they were wanting her to come home and
teach some deaf children and this is where she goes back to her
hometown.
After she arrives home and greets her cousins, some had married
and some had not. Ella had always liked Jake but he was a young man that just
could not settle down.
In this book there is a lot going on, while
accidents happen, more that I think I have ever read in one of Wanda's books. As
another young man lost his hearing when their propane tank exploded, so he could
not do what he loved anymore and that was to help his dad in the family business
of making and tuning wind chimes. He love to hear them and to tune them. Now
this part of his life is over.
When Jake came back home "again" when his
dad fell and broke both of his legs, so he had to work on the pig farm, which he
hated.
In this book there are two love stories and they all are very
good. As I read this book I realize that the Amish people have their problems as
we do in the English community.
Thanks to Barbour Publishing for sending
this book to me to review
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