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The Amish of Wells Landing, Oklahoma, treasure their close-knit community, and the promise of their growing families. But one young woman is struggling to choose a future that is true to both her heart and her faith…
Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry--despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, it is mor ...more
Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry--despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, it is mor ...more
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Just Plain Sadie is anything but plain or boring! Sadie Kauffman is the plainest girl in her group, twenty-two and the only one still unmarried. It is expected that she and childhood friend, Chris Flaud, will marry but she loves him as a friend not as a husband. She doesn’t feel that zing and tingle that the romance authors talk about but then perhaps that feeling will just fizzle away! She meets handsome, Ezra Hein, a Mennonite, and finds herself attracted to him in that ‘zing and tingle way’!
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I love Amy Lillards books. Just Plain Sadie takes place in Wells Landing. Sadie is trying to make up what is just is she wants with her future. She wants true love but she also wants to stay truth to her faith. Growing up with Chris everyone just assumes They will marry. But Chris has other plans that puts those thought on hold. Will Sadie wait for Chris till he is ready? Or is there someone else she meets and finds true love? Pick up this book and find out answers to these questions and be prep
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Amy Lillard draws you into the story right from the start; that's why I was not surprised with this happened to me on the first sentence that starts "Just Plain Sadie". Read thru the pages and be apart of the book, going through what the characters do. You'll feel like you are right there with them, experiencing what they are experiencing and feeling deep in their hearts.
Did you have a friend of the opposite gender that everyone thought you and that friend were dating? Did they have you getting ...more
Did you have a friend of the opposite gender that everyone thought you and that friend were dating? Did they have you getting ...more
How would it feel for everyone to oppose your marriage to someone due to a difference in religion? When Sadie's longtime friend shares his dream with her, the dream does not include her, and she decides to begin seeing a young Mennonite farmer who sells bison meat to her family's restaurant. All of her friends are concerned that he is Mennonite and all of his friends are upset that she is Amish. Yet Sadie feels excitement and sparks with Ezra Hein and she has not felt that way with steady, comfo
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Just Plain Sadie was so enjoyable to read that I had trouble setting the book down to get anything else done! This story is part of the Wells Landing series, however it can easily be read as a stand alone if you have not read the other books in the series. I have read all of the books in the series, though, so for me it was a wonderful reunion with a few characters and the chance to meet some new ones, as well!
I think my favorite thing about this story was the way the author had me guessing abou ...more
I think my favorite thing about this story was the way the author had me guessing abou ...more
“Just Plain Sadie” by Amy Lillard is a fantastic read! It is a treat to read about the Amish in Wells Landing, Oklahoma. Sadie Kauffman pretty much knows what her future looks like. She will get married to her best friend, Chris Flaud, whom she has loved for years and have a family together. All of her friends already have her and Chris “married.” Sadie knows that is her heart’s desire but is that Chris’ heart’s desire too? Ezra Hein, a Mennonite rancher, has captured Sadie’s attention too. Ezra
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Just Plain Sadie by Amy Lillard. I quickly became engrossed with this story, I love the fact that Sadie was faced with the dilemma of doing what was right for her and what everyone around her thought was right for her. I'm from Oklahoma so the fact that it gave names to real towns around me thrilled me and had me wondering if wells landing was a real little community.
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I was so excited when I received an advance copy of Just Plain Sadie in the mail from the author. Just Plain Sadie is the fourth book in the Wells Landing Amish series by Amy Lillard. I enjoyed reading the first three book in this incredible series and I was not disappointed reading this winsome book. I was drawn into the story from the start.
Sadie Kaufman was surprised when her lifelong, best friend, Christ, Flaud, informed her he was going to travel to Europe and asked her to wait for him. Sa ...more
Sadie Kaufman was surprised when her lifelong, best friend, Christ, Flaud, informed her he was going to travel to Europe and asked her to wait for him. Sa ...more
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The Amish of Wells Landing, Oklahoma, treasure their close-knit community, and the promise of their growing families. But one young woman is struggling to choose a future that is true to both her heart and her faith…
Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry--despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, it is more as a friend than a husband. Yet at twenty-two, the plainest girl in her group, Sadie is also the only one wh ...more
The Amish of Wells Landing, Oklahoma, treasure their close-knit community, and the promise of their growing families. But one young woman is struggling to choose a future that is true to both her heart and her faith…
Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry--despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, it is more as a friend than a husband. Yet at twenty-two, the plainest girl in her group, Sadie is also the only one wh ...more
Receiving my Advanced Reader Copy of Just Plain Sadie by Amy Lillard was so exciting I had already read Caroline's Secret, Courting Emily, and Lorie's Heart and fell in love with Well's Landing and the wonderful residents that reside there. Sadie is very committed to her Mamm, sisters and young brother. Her commitment to her "friend" Chris Flaud is without fail until she meets Ezra! Her dedication to her Faith and Family are deep. These virtues could cost Sadie the deep electric love we all drea
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Just Plain Sadie is book 4 of Amy Lillard's Wells Landing series, but it can be read as a stand alone book. I loved hearing about the characters from the other books though! This book was interesting because it brought in elements of the Mennonite culture and how the Amish and Mennonites interact. Sadie's choices each had consequences and Amy Lillard had me guessing until the end what Sadie's choice would be. Amy Lillard always writes a wonderful romance, has me falling in love with the characte
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One feels the plight of Sadie, being plain, single and 22. The expectation of the people in this tight knit community expecting her to marry Chris. He was a friend, but didn't give the zing she wanted. Then she mets Ezra Hein a Mennonite..can she leave what she has known and move to his.community. How life is, to step out in love and faith. She found another world opened to her and another community of love. The clothes will be different. The Sunday church only an hour and in a building. Somehow
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Just plain Sadie, I know the Amish are not supposed to be vain, but to think that others are attractive, but your not. How sad! Our Sadie feels this way, but friends and family surround her, and all she really wants is to become an Amish wife and mother.
When her life long friend Chris, whom she has expected to marry, drops a bombshell that in a few months he will be leaving to travel Europe. This is a secret that he is keeping for the time being, and he has assured her that he will return, and w ...more
When her life long friend Chris, whom she has expected to marry, drops a bombshell that in a few months he will be leaving to travel Europe. This is a secret that he is keeping for the time being, and he has assured her that he will return, and w ...more
Patience reaps rewards…
Sadie Kauffman, Lorie’s sister, has been paired with Chris Flaud just about forever. Everyone expects them to marry soon, but their love is more of a brother-sister love. Besides, Chris has plans to travel. Sadie only wants a home and a family, but she fears she may never have one.
Although Chris, and everyone else she knows, sees Sadie as plain, there is someone who sees her as pretty… intriguing… and something special. Ezra Heim sees Sadie differently than everyone else ...more
Awesome book!!! Just another one of Amy's fabulous books! I love the setting and can't wait to read the next one!!! This is a must read, for any one of Amish Fiction/Romance readers, and I also have gotten into Amy Lillard's Contemporary Romance Books now too!!!
***Here is the rest of my review...This was such a great book...We go back to Wells Landing, Oklahoma...in this fourth installment...Poor Sadie is confused...everyone thought she would marry a certain person...but she was thinking of ano ...more
***Here is the rest of my review...This was such a great book...We go back to Wells Landing, Oklahoma...in this fourth installment...Poor Sadie is confused...everyone thought she would marry a certain person...but she was thinking of ano ...more
This series has been so well written so far, and I appreciate that in each installment the reader has a chance to follow one particular sister and really have a sense of what she is dealing with, yet still be able to continue to enjoy the other recurring characters in the series. Sadie had quite the dilemma balancing her feelings for Chris and his decision to travel, against Ezra and the conflict caused by their relationship and feelings for each other. Chris in particular faced some very diffic
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Just Plain Sadie
By
Amy Lillard
I was blessed reading this Just Plain Sadie. Sadie was a brave young lady. She may have been thought plain, but am sure she was a beautiful person. She was dating Chris in her Amish Community, although in all the years they dated he never proposed. Some how Sadie met Ezra, a Mennonite who was so good to her, and she really liked him. She was beautiful to Ezra. This story to me was about courage, and listening to the Lord as He guided her. Loved reading this book, a ...more
By
Amy Lillard
I was blessed reading this Just Plain Sadie. Sadie was a brave young lady. She may have been thought plain, but am sure she was a beautiful person. She was dating Chris in her Amish Community, although in all the years they dated he never proposed. Some how Sadie met Ezra, a Mennonite who was so good to her, and she really liked him. She was beautiful to Ezra. This story to me was about courage, and listening to the Lord as He guided her. Loved reading this book, a ...more
Just Plain Sadie is the fourth installment from A Wells Landing Romance series. I really enjoyed this book, as well as, others in the series.
Definitely worth a read!
4 stars.
Definitely worth a read!
4 stars.
I’ve read all of the books in Amy Lillard’s Wells Landing Romance series and have loved each one. Oklahoma isn’t a place where one would typically think of as having an Amish community. However, it is clear that the author has done her research on the subject. The way she writes about the community draws you in so much that you can visualize every detail. I can just imagine seeing an Amish man, or woman, riding down the road on their tractors. What a sight that must be!
Aside from the wonderful d ...more
Aside from the wonderful d ...more
Just Plain Sadie is the first book I read in the Amish of Wells Landing series. I was drawn in from the start. The characters are well written and developed within the story. I really felt like I could relate with each even to the point of wanting to sit down and give them a good talking too. I felt like I was a part of the story.
Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud have been friends since they can remember. Everyone in the community feels that they will be married soon. However, Sadie doesn't feel C ...more
Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud have been friends since they can remember. Everyone in the community feels that they will be married soon. However, Sadie doesn't feel C ...more
It was nice going back to Wells Landing, Oklahoma again and catching up with old friends and being introduced to new people. Sadie Kauffman is the focus of this book and she finds herself caught between two men--one Amish and the other Mennonite. When it comes right down to it can Sadie find happiness with one of them?
This book was unique in that Sadie's story focuses on the differences between the Amish and Mennonite faiths. I have read many books where the Amish characters are attracted to som ...more
This book was unique in that Sadie's story focuses on the differences between the Amish and Mennonite faiths. I have read many books where the Amish characters are attracted to som ...more
Just Plain Sadie, written by Amy Lillard, is a heartwarming story of faith and love. Sadie who is Amish is looking for what all Amish girls want, love, marriage, and her own family. When her lifelong best friend drops a big secret on her all her dreams vanish.
When Sadie meets Ezra Hein at a local farmers market she is instantly attracted to him. The problem with this is he is a Mennonite and a relationship with him is forbidden. What is Sadie willing to do to form a relationship with Ezra? How m ...more
When Sadie meets Ezra Hein at a local farmers market she is instantly attracted to him. The problem with this is he is a Mennonite and a relationship with him is forbidden. What is Sadie willing to do to form a relationship with Ezra? How m ...more
So Amy Lillard has written this series taking place in Wells Landing, Oklahoma. The last bride in the series is Sadie Kauffman, who considers herself to be a rather non-descript, plain-looking woman. But, she's been friends with Chris Flaud almost all her life and will probably marry him, until he tells her he wants to go to Europe.
When Sadie's mamm gives her younger sister, Cora Ann, permission to add some bison meat to the family restaurant menu, Sadie meets Ezra Hein, the owner of an exotic ...more
When Sadie's mamm gives her younger sister, Cora Ann, permission to add some bison meat to the family restaurant menu, Sadie meets Ezra Hein, the owner of an exotic ...more
Just Plain Sadie is the 4th book in Amy Lillard’s Wells Landing Series. I so enjoyed the first three books and now I have enjoyed the 4th book.
Chris and Sadie have been friends forever. Everyone just assumes they will marry. When Chris tells her of plans he has and asks Sadie to wait for him, she now needs to make a very important decision. This is a very hard time for Sadie.
Sadie meets Ezra, a very kind Mennonite man that she will have dealings with, he runs an exotic animal farm and Sadie’s fa ...more
Chris and Sadie have been friends forever. Everyone just assumes they will marry. When Chris tells her of plans he has and asks Sadie to wait for him, she now needs to make a very important decision. This is a very hard time for Sadie.
Sadie meets Ezra, a very kind Mennonite man that she will have dealings with, he runs an exotic animal farm and Sadie’s fa ...more
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I loved the continuation of the Wells Landing series set in Oklahoma with the Amish at its core and this time there were Mennonites too as well as some Englischers. Many of the families that live in Wells Landing were front and center and it was nice to see how their lives progressed but also stayed the same. The Kauffman's and their restaurant were once again a major part of the story and Cora Ann, only thirteen, did m ...more
I loved the continuation of the Wells Landing series set in Oklahoma with the Amish at its core and this time there were Mennonites too as well as some Englischers. Many of the families that live in Wells Landing were front and center and it was nice to see how their lives progressed but also stayed the same. The Kauffman's and their restaurant were once again a major part of the story and Cora Ann, only thirteen, did m ...more
I was SOOOOO lucky to get an advance reader's copy of this book. I have read the other books of the Wells Landing Amish series. I have enjoyed them all, but I have to admit, this is my favorite one. I could barely put it down. And then when I was done I was so sad that it was over...
Yes, this was just a wonderful book. It was so fun to read and the people in the story seemed to be so human it was as though I really knew them, shortcomings and all.
A little synopsis:
The people of Wells Landing al ...more
Yes, this was just a wonderful book. It was so fun to read and the people in the story seemed to be so human it was as though I really knew them, shortcomings and all.
A little synopsis:
The people of Wells Landing al ...more
Just Plain Sadie by Amy Lillard takes us back to Wells Landing and to the family restaurant where Sadie works. I loved revisiting and finding out more about their lives.
Although filled with romance, I love that sprinkled in this book was a couple of action packed moments. They actually made my heart stop for a few minutes.
You know that sinking feeling you get when you feel like your world is not turning out the way you imagined? I was reminded in this book not too worry, that God will help us ...more
Although filled with romance, I love that sprinkled in this book was a couple of action packed moments. They actually made my heart stop for a few minutes.
You know that sinking feeling you get when you feel like your world is not turning out the way you imagined? I was reminded in this book not too worry, that God will help us ...more
This is my first trip to Wells Landing and I have to say I'll be back again! The book is a part of a series but easily stood alone for me. I was drawn into the story very quickly.
Sadie has been friends with Chris forever. They actually have a really great friendship. She was hoping for more but Chris decided he wants to travel. Across the sea! Sadie is crushed and feels betrayed. Then she meets Ezra and you can feel the sparks fly right from the start. But he's a Mennonite, she's Amish, and the ...more
Sadie has been friends with Chris forever. They actually have a really great friendship. She was hoping for more but Chris decided he wants to travel. Across the sea! Sadie is crushed and feels betrayed. Then she meets Ezra and you can feel the sparks fly right from the start. But he's a Mennonite, she's Amish, and the ...more
She has been my favorite author of Amish books. I gave this one a four only because I didn't like the choice she allowed the main character to make.
I enjoy Amish books because I find there religion very interesting. I admire their convictions. What I don't like is when author after author finds it necessary to rescue the poor Amish and have them join another church or become Englishe.
I believe it was Amy's last book that she allowed the person the choose the Englishe.
She is still one heck of a ...more
I enjoy Amish books because I find there religion very interesting. I admire their convictions. What I don't like is when author after author finds it necessary to rescue the poor Amish and have them join another church or become Englishe.
I believe it was Amy's last book that she allowed the person the choose the Englishe.
She is still one heck of a ...more
This is the 4th in the series...and I'm guessing the last though I really want more stories!!! I especially want to know what happens to Cora Ann(Sadie's sister) and the guy Sadie doesn't pick(spoilers).
Have you ever been so mad at a character through out the whole book only to love them at the end!!! The decision said character makes in order to help Sadie was just so sweet I couldn't be mad at them any more....And Amy if your reading this I need to know What happens to them(I think you'll know ...more
Have you ever been so mad at a character through out the whole book only to love them at the end!!! The decision said character makes in order to help Sadie was just so sweet I couldn't be mad at them any more....And Amy if your reading this I need to know What happens to them(I think you'll know ...more
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