Well. A series of far fetched plot devices that just kept coming. In one book we had an attempted rape, an almost death from falling in a cave, violently forced wedding between an Amish girl and an English man (who was engaged to someone else), a bear attack on a dog, beaver fever infectious epidemic which was casually ended by a call to CDC friends, 2 deaths, a secret divorce, an unknown dead twin, and yet these were all side missions to the primary point of the sexual life of the main couple. And that was still pandering to the woman's childlike innocence and her new husbands control over her in an unnerving way. It was just distracting and unbelievable. Also, I thought the jumping the broom for a wedding was a black slave tradition in pre-Civil War times, not a modern Amish one. And no mention of baptism vows and the English guy was accepted so quickly into the community at the end and put as teacher over Amish kids which seems a bit far fetched to me. There was much talk of forgiveness and the "doing the right thing" and Gott but most of it was centered on feelings anyway.

It certainly was a roller coaster.