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Huckleberry Christmas by Jennifer Beckstrand

I just love reading Jennifer Beckstrand's books!  I think you probably all know that by now!

I just finished reading Huckleberry Christmas.  I can only say 5 stars.  It was so good.  It was fun, entertaining and just plain enjoyable!

This book has the lovable Anna and Felty Helmuth back to their match-making antics.  This time it's for their recently widowed granddaughter, Beth.  Beth has a young son, Toby and lots of hard to deal with memories of a very difficult marriage.  So hard that thoughts of another marriage are the last things on her mind.

Anna has plans for Beth and Tyler Yoder.  But those plans are not Beth's as she tries to arrange dates for Tyler, thinking she may have gotten a good match with Erla Glick.  But is this what she really wants?

Her deceased husband's brother, Isaac, is also after her heart, feeling that she has responsibilities to their family, especially since her mother-in-law is very ill.  Beth does go to their home to help and Isaac tries to claim Beth as his fiance.  There are lots of fun twists and turns in this book.

Now this is entirely an aside from what I have written.  I am a German and we eat "Bratwurst", commonly called "Brats". I have a brother-in-law who lives in Wisconsin, in fact, close to Bonduel.  He is always talking about Brat buns.  Well, I tell him Germans do not eat Brats on a bun.  It just isn't done...he says in Wisconsin they have special buns for them.  This is an ongoing laugh we have together.  Well, it must be a "Wisconsin" thing, because Jennifer mentions Brat buns in her book which is set in Bonduel, Wisconsin.  I had to laugh at this part.  She really did her research!  And then the line which Tyler states, "It's a crime to eat a Brat without one." So of course, this was a little private joke just for me!

I am so excited as I looked at Jennifer's blog to see that there is another title coming out in the Spring! I can't wait to read that one, either.  The others have all been so good.  Here's a picture of her next cover.

What a beautiful cover!  I will certainly be reading this one, as well!

You can find out more about Jennifer and her books at her website. Here's the link.

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An Amish Christmas Quilt by: Charlotte Hubbard, Kelly Long, Jennifer Beckstrand

If I understand correctly the Novellas included here are an extension of their own Amish series and characters.

This lovely Christmas book is a set of 3 novellas written by the above authors. 

The book begins with Charlotte Hubbard’s A Willow Ridge Christmas Pageant.

Mary, a pregnant widow returns with her two step children to her Amish community of Willow Ridge after having lost her husband.  The story starts out immediately as Mary’s baby decides it is time to come.  Help arrives in the young Amish man, Seth, with whom she soon is befriended.  The story continues around the Christmas pageant that is planned by the Amish school. 

This story was so sweet.  I loved reading it and it brings a beautiful feeling of peace and love.  It is a great read and I enjoyed it very much.

 A Christmas on Ice Mountain by Kelly Long. 

Laurel Lapp is secretly being courted by Mathew Beider, a son of her father’s most disliked person.  The two father’s have disliked one another for years, yet their children have fallen in love.  Somewhat of a Romeo and Juliet theme here, revolves about Matthew searching for Laurel in a terrible storm and nearly freezing and they both needing to spend the night on Ice Mountain.  A very engaging storyline and an entertaining read with love, forgiveness and trials. 

A Perfect Amish Christmas by Jennifer Beckstrand

Because I have read the other Huckleberry Hill series books written by this author, I was very familiar with some of the characters in this story, as well.  Anna and Felty Helmuth are serial matchmakers and a very sweet and likeable pair.  Their grandson, Gideon, is requested by Anna to come and help Felty, yet she has ulterior motives, good ones, at that.  Dottie and Gideon would make a great match, or would they?  Anna is convinced, yet things don’t always go as Anna plans.  A great story, wonderfully engaging characters and as always, a fun and humorous tale crafted by Jennifer as only she can!

 

 

 

 

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The Choice by Suzanne Woods Fisher

I snagged this book for Kindle for free.  I am so happy that I did.  It was a wonderful book.  And I can't praise it enough.

Carrie the main female character loses Sol the love of her life to his life of baseball during his Rumspringa.  She marries another, but this marriage is not as she had hoped.  But things change as Daniel has a fatal accident.

Carrie finds Daniel's cousin, Abel, who has been incarcerated and discovers many secrets regarding events that caused Abel's incarceration.  A truly engaging book.  I would highly recommend it to readers of Amish fiction.  The book embraces love, forgiveness, human frailty and feelings of guilt to that are very hard for some of the characters to divulge.  The conflicts in this book make it easy to read this very quickly because you don't want to put the book down.  It's that intriguing.  And I just looked and it is still free on Amazon!  What could be a better deal than that.  Here is the link to the book!

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