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Rebecca's Promise (Adams County #1)
Readers of Amish fiction will delight in this new series by a veteran author in this popular genre (50,000 Jerry Eicher books sold).
Rebecca Keim has just declared her love to John Miller and agreed to become his wife.?But she's haunted by her schoolgirl memories of a long ago love--and a promise made and a ring given. Is that memory just a fantasy come back to destroy the...more
Rebecca Keim has just declared her love to John Miller and agreed to become his wife.?But she's haunted by her schoolgirl memories of a long ago love--and a promise made and a ring given. Is that memory just a fantasy come back to destroy the...more
Paperback, 260 pages
Published
March 1st 2009
by Harvest House Publishers
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When I think of an Amish novel being written, I think of a female author writing them. But that's not the case with this amazing story. It is written by a male author with a fabulous knack for writing Amish stories.
The first in a trilogy, Rebecca's Promise is full of page turning, riveting scenes. I found myself completely captured by the Amish characters. They quickly became a part of me, which is what I love to have happen when I read a great Amish novel!
It's plot is twisty;full of secrets, pr...more
The first in a trilogy, Rebecca's Promise is full of page turning, riveting scenes. I found myself completely captured by the Amish characters. They quickly became a part of me, which is what I love to have happen when I read a great Amish novel!
It's plot is twisty;full of secrets, pr...more
Jerry S. Eicher is one of those Amish fictions writers that people apparently either love or hate. I happen to love him. Since he was born and raised Amish, you can be certain he's giving you the real Amish world, and not a mawkish sappy one, as do most Amish Romance writers. I think many dislike him precisely because of that. Rebecca's Promise is one of Jerry's better novels. He seems to have grown from his earlier titles. The writing is more fluid and descriptive. I love his detail of day-to-d...more
I'm a big fan of Amish novels, but this one was boring. Also, I'm not sure if the author has done much research on the Amish because there were a few contradictions compared to other Amish novels. For example, in the beginning of the book, the couple discusses getting married during Spring. In every other Amish novel I've read, there is a marriage season and that is November. Just something I noticed. If the book had been a little more interesting, I probably would not have mentioned it. I didn'...more
I have loved Amish fiction for awhile, and at one point I was told that Eicher was a good writer of Amish Fiction. I wasn't disappointed.
One thing I absolutely loved was that Eicher was not afraid to assign some really controversial points of view to his Amish characters. Usually in Amish fiction the most "out of line" a character gets is perhaps listening to music or dating a Mennonite. There were several characters in Rebecca's Promise that really broke the mold of Amish stereotype and I abso...more
This was a strange Amish book, very different from other fiction about the Amish. Many things seem to be different than what I've read about the Amish. Are there really rich and poor Amish? Do they spend so much time worrying over money? I have the second book and will most likely go ahead and read it.
First of a trilogy, Rebecca's Promise is a book about tradition and promises. When is a promise not worth keeping? When is the first love ever over? Should Rebecca move on with her life or remember the boy she promised to meet on her 21st birthday?
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I liked it pretty much. I want to read the sequels but can't find them in the library system so I guess I will have to buy them elsewhere. I want to find out who she chooses.
I just could not get into this book. It was really slow. Although the story was interesting, but I wasn't happy with how it turned out.
Pretty good book, but not one of my favorites. I normally love any book that is Amish related, but this one just didn't seem to keep me as interested as some of the others I've read.
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It was ok...not as good as Beverly Lewis.
I had to FIGHT my way through this book. Yep, this Amish fiction book was THAT bad. I never got invested in the characters and I wound up caring less about what happened to her. AND then there is the Amish family so consumed by inheriting money that turned me off. I am not saying that Amish are not like us...but the way they acted turned me off. This is a pretty short book but I couldn't bring myself to read it. I think I worked on it for over a freaking week. Yeah. That bad.
This was a very good book. It was a fast read and was hard to put down. I'd recommand it to others.
It was a nice book. Not one of the best but worth reading.
A fairly good read.
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Jerry Eicher’s bestselling Amish fiction (more than 210,000 in combined sales) includes The Adams County Trilogy, the Hannah’s Heart books, and the Little Valley Series. After a traditional Amish childhood, Jerry taught for two terms in Amish and Mennonite schools in Ohio and Illinois. Since then he’s been involved in church renewal, preaching, and teaching Bible studies. Jerry lives with his wife...more
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