🎄❄️🩺💊 The Christmas Remedy (An Amish Christmas Romance) (2018) 💊 🩺❄️🎄 - Book Review
MY REVIEW
Hardcover:
208 pages
Publisher:
WaterBrook (October 23, 2018)
Language:
English
ISBN-10:
0735291047
ISBN-13: 978-0735291041
“When an
Old Order Amish woman takes a job at a small-town pharmacy struggling to
survive in a world of "big box" stores, her motive is to help her
Plain community. But the advent of the holiday season brings an unusual mystery
to the surface--and possibly love.
Twenty-four-year-old Holly Zook lives a unique
life for a young Amish woman. Years ago, her bishop allowed her to continue her
education and become the lead technician for Greene's Pharmacy, an old-timey
drugstore that looks out for the Amish community--a group largely without
secure healthcare plans. She knows she can't marry and hold onto her
professional job. She's Amish, and she can only have one or the other, so she
spurns love and works toward addressing treatable diseases--like the one that
claimed her father's life.
A HUGE thank you to JustRead Publicity Tours and the publisher for sending me this “blind date” book to review. A positive review was not required or requested, all words are my own.
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| ["The Christmas Remedy" - Cindy Woodsmall & Erin Woodsmall] |
As I have a pretty set type of book I read, I
RARELY go outside my genre, which has changed quite a bit this year.
About 20 years I was introduced to the world of
Christian Fiction with books by Dee Henderson. I just didn’t know what it was
called. And, this year I rediscovered that. I’ve also found a lot of good stuff
in Christian Suspense.
There is something exciting about “you’ve been
matched with a blind date for a book”.
When this book finally got here (I hate
waiting, lol) – I opened it and … it was an Amish Romance. Me?
How did this happen? Good grief! So, I was a
bit intimidated by it. Silly, I know, but I was. I even managed to read a few
books on my TBR before this one.
The only “Amish” romance I’d come close to, was
watching “Witness” with Harrison Ford!
Anyway, I kept seeing the cute cover and
reading the blurb – so I took a chance. Seeing that it was just after Christmas
… it seemed an appropriate time to start it.
Was I ever glad I did! Yes, I really enjoyed
it. I’m not just saying that. I did. I couldn’t put it down – except for the
times I had to.
“The Christmas Remedy” by Cindy Woodsmall, and
her daughter-in-law Erin Woodsmall, is one of the sweetest reads ever! There
are some elements of suspense (but not dark), not too much on the romance
though – well, for us “Englisch” that is.
This book is every bit as delightful as it sounds. I
was even surprised to enjoy it as much as I did.
This is a short read at around 200 pages. There
are no curse words, again according to us “Englisch”. There is some “Amish”
language which the author used “Pennsylvania Dutch”. It isn’t enough to detract
from the enjoyment. And, she has a website (https://www.cindywoodsmall.com/2015/01/23/amish-words-pronunciation-and-a-giveaway/)
where she gives the translations and explanations. I didn’t even see this until
writing the review.
Interesting note – some of my maternal
grandmother’s family originated from “Pennsylvania Dutch Country”. I knew what
they were saying or hinting at. Although I’d never heard the terms before. It
was, for me, one of the things I picked up.
There are some “Christian” tones with regard to
religious beliefs and prayers, obviously since it deals with the Amish community.
But, the authors are not preachy in their tone.
It showed how the Amish view medicine and how a
young woman was determined to help her community using what the Englisch had to
offer. And, it was beautiful to see how the Englisch pharmacist worked with
them in respect of their culture. I truly appreciated both sides of the
situation represented.
It had a decent, non-rushed pace. The writing
was clear and coherent, so I couldn’t tell that there were two writers to this
book. I have read dual writer novels before such as Carol Higgins Clark/Mary
Higgins Clark as well as Greer Hendricks/Sarah Pekkanen.
I recommend this book for those who enjoy Amish
romances, clean reads, and Christian reads.
I definitely wouldn’t hesitate to read books by
these two again.
Thank you again to JustRead for this surprise!!
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐–
Goodreads
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐–
Bookbub
ANOTHER BOOK IN THE SERIES:
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook (September 24,
2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525653295
ISBN-13: 978-0525653295
“Old Order Amish Ivy Zook is wrestling with her
need to shed her community's ways so she can grow the business of her dreams:
planning parties. As long as she's stuck living without modernization, she can
barely get her business on its feet. But if she leaves too soon, she'd cause
trouble for her sister, Holly, who is planning her wedding to Joshua Smucker.
All of their plans become twice as complicated when an old car crashes into the
storefront of Greene's Pharmacy, carrying a Swartzentruber (ultra-conservative
sect) Amish man, Arlan, and his very ill sister.
The Zooks take in Arlan and Madga, tending to the
woman's illness and Arlan begins helping around the family farm. Ivy and Arlan
are on different tracks, one wanting to leave her community and the other to
return to his. But both young people are trying to discover what God has in
store for their futures and what miracles might lie around the corner this
Christmas season.”
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
CINDY WOODSMALL is a New York Times and CBA
best-selling author of more than twenty works of fiction and a nonfiction book.
Her books have sold more than a million copies. Cindy’s writing has been
featured on ABC’s Nightline and the
front page of the Wall Street Journal.
She lives outside Atlanta with her husband.
You can
find Cindy Woodsmall on the following social media accounts:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/cindywoodsmall
ERIN WOODSMALL is a writer, musician, wife, and mom. She has edited, brainstormed, and
researched books with her mother-in-law Cindy Woodsmall, for almost a decade.
The two co-authored The Gift of Christmas
Past: A Southern Romance and As the
Tide Comes in.
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