Helpful Score: 1
The book is 300 pages and the font is pretty big, so it does go quickly. I felt that this book was OK, good but not great. It's a cozy read for a lazy Saturday, but is fairly predictable. It's a story about Will Henderson, a young man still dealing with the pain of being abandoned by his father 16 years earlier. His father left him in the care of an Amish couple; Will became Amish, and is now engaged to marry a young Amish woman. Unbeknownst to Will, his father Frank has been living with this guilt for 16 years and did try to come back for Will, but the family had since moved away. Frank's wife places an ad in an Amish newspaper hoping to reach Will, but does Will want anything to do with his father after all this time? I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I didn't find Will to be a very sympathetic character, he seemed very whiny and I found it hard to connect with him. I understand that he was dealing with a tough issue, but it seemed like he never thought about any of this until the start of the story, rather than dealing with it longer ago (and if he had been like this the whole time, I'm surprised someone didn't smack him or something). Frank's grief over the situation also seemed to come out of nowhere. He's presented as being so despondent over losing his son and suddenly figures out how to get in touch (using the Internet to look up information, why didn't he think of that before since this seems to take place around when it was published in 2008 so it's not like it wasn't invented yet). I did enjoy the characters of Will's Amish parents and his fiancée more so than the others I previously mentioned. I was hoping for a bit of a peak into Amish life, but those elements seemed a bit forced, as if thrown in after the fact or pushed in a way to say "these people are Amish in case you didn't realize it.â. Anyway, it's still a decent story if you are looking for something light to fill a long afternoon.
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