| Title | : | An Amish Match (Amish Hearts, #2) |
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| ISBN | : | 0373819064 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780373819065 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 |
| Publication | : | First published May 1, 2016 |
With a baby on the way, a toddler son to care for and a run-down farm, Amish widow Rebekah Burkholder is worried for her family's future. So when a kind, hardworking Amish widower with three children proposes marriage for sensible reasons, Rebekah accepts. She'll oversee Joshua Stoltzfus's household, be a loving mother to his children and try to reach his rebellious teenager. Joshua will make a wonderful father to her young son and the little one soon to be born. But as Rebekah unexpectedly falls for her new husband, dare she hope that Joshua will reopen his heart to love, too?
An Amish Match (Amish Hearts, #2) Reviews
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She hoped Joshua hadn't seen how she flinched away when he moved his hand toward her. Recoiling away from a man's hand was a habit she couldn't break.
Rebekah lost her husband less than a year ago. This fucker beat her and her child. He beat her also while she was pregnant. Luckily he died in a drunken accident.
Joshua is a widower whose beloved wife died four years ago. He's raising his three kids on his own. He goes to Rebekah's house to propose marriage, based solely on the fact that they both have dead spouses and children and need help.
After they are married Rebekah is very slow to trust Joshua. He has to use his loving kindness and his patience to show her he is not like her abusive dead husband.
Normally a book like this would be extremely appealing to me, but there's no sex and barely even any kissing and that makes me sad.
CATEGORIES:
Amish Romance
Contemporary Romance
Inspirational Romance
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It's a long time since I've read an Amish romance. This one was a nice, sweet read although I felt it should have been longer as it seemed rushed towards the end and I would have preferred to read more about Rebecca and Joshua's romance once they realised their feelings for one another. This is a 'clean' romance, so there are no love scenes. -
Rebekah Burkholder life was not easy after losing her abusive husband to his addiction. Joshua Stoltzfus proposal for her to marry him and care for his children and saying Lloyd had requested he watch after Rebekah if anything happened to him. A marriage of convenience with struggles but Rebekah sweet loving spirit changed the lives for Joshua and his children. Little Debby loved Sammy, Rebekah’s three year old. The story had unexpected twist with the teenager Matthew but Joshua and Rebekah were there for him. The romance between the couple was fast at the end as a new life was brought into the family. A quick read for readers who wants a clean wholesome Amish romance story.
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I enjoyed this story about a young widow, left with a small child and a baby on the way. She married a man who seemed good but had a weakness for drink which he kept hidden from the Amish community. Now free and respectably living in her own household, the lady nevertheless comes under pressure to remarry. She can't maintain the farm and house, while a good hardworking widower needs a housekeeper and mother for his growing children. But shouldn't there be better reasons to marry?
In the general community this would turn into a story where the lady rented out the fields and ran a website design business from home, but those kind of options aren't open to our heroine. So this is similar to a sweet historical romance while firmly in a modern setting. The writing style reads easily while being very descriptive. Anyone looking to start reading Amish romances will enjoy the tale and look for more.
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Reviewed by Tammy
Book provided by NetGalley
Jo Ann Brown has written over 100 books. Her stories' genres include romance, mystery, and paranormal.
An Amish Match is the second book in the Amish Hearts series.
In
An Amish Match, widower Joshua Stolzfus and widow Rebekah Burkholder were friends but they never expected to be man and wife. Their marriage of convenience seemed to solve the issues of caring for their children. But it also seemed to put their hearts at risk. Neither were sure if they could even love again.
An Amish Match is the story of two very different broken hearts trying to mend and possibly finding love in the process.
This story has a lot of characters, it took me awhile in the beginning to keep everyone straight. Still, I found the characters and their feelings to be very real. I have always wondered if a marriage of convenience would work in real life. Could it eventually lead to true love? In
An Amish Match, Rebekah and Joshua's resistance to love each other seemed justified to them. This Inspirational romance was sweet and enjoyable to read. It touched on a subject not written about in most of the Amish books I have read. Trusting God, others, and one's own heart is the theme of this Love Inspired Romance Novel. -
Though Amish romance is popular, this is the first one I’ve read. It reminds me of sci-fi, where the author must unfold a foreign world but with enough familiar elements to establish a relatable context. This author does a good job, though the constant italicizing of the same German words throughout the book became annoying, as if the reader can’t be trusted to know the word the twentieth time it’s used. I appreciated seeing every main character’s internal growth, including the children. The love story between Rebekah and Joshua seems natural and is charming and heartwarming. I can see the appeal for this genre.
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Great love story.
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It was a good book!
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4.5
Could have done with something other than Loyd’s abusive backstory, but I guess it set up the happiest of things for Rebekah. -
This is a nice little Amish story that tackles the issue of domestic violence – something I have not read about in this subgenre before. I like Jo Ann Brown’s writing style, and didn’t find the book overly religious. It did, however, need another couple of chapters at the end because the story cut out before the issues were resolved.
Once again, I say these books make being Amish look like a curse – everyone is widowed in their twenties! I know it’s a good way to create some drama, but who would want to be Amish – or get married – if you have a fifty percent chance of being dead before your thirtieth birthday?!
That aside, I thought the balance between the relationship and the family aspects was good. Sometimes in these books so much time is given to the children that the author forgets they are writing for the romance genre.
I don’t know if it’s just that I’m more familiar with Amish culture now, but I thought we were eased in the world in a way that makes the book accessible for newbies.
It might have been nice if the big secrets were revealed just a little bit earlier in the book, because there weren’t many pages left to deal with the domestic violence issue, but at least we were given a realistic amount of time for the characters to fall in love.
I think this was one of the better Amish books I’ve read so far.
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It didn’t take long for me to begin walking in Rebekah Burkholder’s shoes and become absorbed in her life and her darling three year old Sammy. When Joshua Stoltzfus’s family badgers him to remarry he thinks of Rebekah a recent widow and decides he might as well help the both of them.
Rebekah was married to one of Joshua’s best friends and he know he can never fill his shoes or replace her love for him, he is also three years widowed and still madly in love with his deceased wife.
Rebekah is keeping secrets from her new husband, and he has noticed how she flinches from his touch, will he regret his decision? His family of two sons and a daughter welcome Rebekah and Sammy and love they way the house has cleaned up and the mouth-watering meals that they are now enjoying.
Will all of this come to an end because of Rebekah’s past? Will his children decide they don’t want her in their live as a mother?
Come and enjoy this really sweet, page-turning read. I’m so glad I turned the first cover.
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"4.5 out of 5 stars! Joshua and Rebekah are both young Amish widowers who have kids (with one more on the way) and have known each other for a long time (Joshua was the best friend of Rebekah’s husband), but after Joshua’s wife passed away four years prior the families had grown apart from one another. Not long after another tragedy brings them back together, Joshua (with the encouragement from his mother) proposes to Rebekah. They bring their lives together not out of love but to help one another. Yet they both are holding secrets from each other, will they be able to overcome them to become a happy family that they both desire/deserve? Or will their secrets end up hurting them both in the long run?
I was looking for an engaging Amish romance and I found one in this enticing novel! As I read it in one day! All of the characters (Rebekah, Joshua, and their children) were..."
Read more of this review and THREE TEASERS here:
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I liked this book much better than the first one in the series - Amish Homecoming. While it was still an angst-y read, the story-line made that appropriate.
This is a simple story, one that has been done quite a bit -two people both widowed need help - either with kids, with money problems or with housework. I get that in the Amish community people do marry for other reasons than love. And I loved seeing this couple ( Rebekah and Joshua) learn to overcome their issues, one couldn't seem to get over a deceased spouse and one couldn't trust the opposite sex. Eventually life and love win out and we get our HEA!
This book found ways to surprise me and that is a good thing in my opinion.
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I read this on the Kindle
I enjoyed this book it about a widow Rebekah who was an abused wife & she has a toddler with one on the way her husband never knew about
Joshua is a widower of 4 years & was a good friend to Rebekah's husband they enter in a marriage of convenient so she can be mother to his 3 children & he can be father to her son & the expected child
She flinches when he just goes to touch her but can't understand why
It a story that see it share of problems in that a married couple, teenage son, a toddler who seen the abuse his mother had & of course no one wants to share secrets all to make good reading
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When your are attacked both physically and verbally by your spouse you would be afraid to trust men. This is what Rebekah deals with until her husband dies. Joshua wants to be there for Rebekah and he was her husbands best friend and he lost his wife a few years previous. He has know idea of the turmoil that she went through but he asks Rebekah to be his wife and take care of his wife. With trepidation she agrees and in time sees what a wonderful husband Joshua is. I loved the story line behind this book.
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Jo Ann,
I had to take my dog to the vet and knew I'd be there hours. I took your book and finished the whole thing! What a great read. I loved Joshua and his family. I was looking forward to her sharing her story with Joshua, and I liked how Timothy came along.
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"Rebekah is a strong, courageous woman, and the characters demonstrate great perseverance. Brown tactfully addresses an issue not commonly discussed in Amish-themed novels" (4 stars @ RT Book Reviews).
Miniseries:
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You can read my review in the May 2016 issue of RT Bookreviews Magazine.
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received 4 stars @ RT Book Reviews
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heartwarming
