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Cargando... Sense and Sensibility: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Classic (The Amish Classics)por Sarah Price
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a lovely Sense and Sensibility retelling. I love the Amish setting for the story and how well that worked. My only negative was that there were certain scenes that felt like they were practically cut and pasted out of the 1995 movie adaptation. Otherwise, this was a delightful read and I look forward to checking out the other books in this series. ( ) Sense and Sensibility has always been my favorite Jane Austen story and I was so happy that this modern day adaptation did it justice! Set in a modern day Amish community - many things are still similar. Modesty, patriarchal societies, gossip, etc. Some minor differences include youth singings instead of balls, shunning instead indecency, and a spotlight on religion. A fantastic adaptation of my favorite and one that I will definitely read again! 3.5 stars, for now. :) This started slowly for me, but after about 1/3 through, the pacing seemed to pick up, or maybe I was glad to be away from Fanny. ;) Another lovely retelling/re-imagining by Price, but not one of my favorites (even though Marianne/Brandon is my favorite Austen couple) in this series. Still, worth reading and I will be reading Mount Hope, the next in the series. I highly recommend this series as a whole. Sarah Price does an amazing job with this story and unfortunately for me I had it all read in less than a day, I wanted more, and there was with the epilogue, which I loved. When Henry’s oldest son takes a vow on his deathbed to take car of his family, and John agrees, you could feel the sick man’s sigh of relief. Of course, things are not about to be running smooth, when John’s wife banishes the family to the dawdi house, and talks her husband out of giving them the money he was supposed to give them. I hated that she had Maggie’s favorite climbing tree cut down, could really dislike Fanny. Wait until you see what God has planned for Eleanor and Mary Ann, and will choose correctly? What a read you are about to experience, and once you start you won’t be able to put it down. We meet manipulators at their worse, and you want to shake them, but we can only hope that these girls will come the their senses and follow God’s plan for their lives. We find that sometimes, the evil some people display does come back to haunt them, and then I felt sorry for them also. Don’t miss this great read you won’t be disappointed! I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Realms, and was not required to give a positive review. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: Henry Detweiler dies unexpectedly, leaving his second wife and three daughters, Eleanor, Mary Ann, and Maggie, in the care of John, his oldest son from a previous marriage. John and his wife, Fanny, inherit the farm and, despite a deathbed promise to take care of their stepmother and half-sisters, John and Fanny make it obvious that Mrs. Detweiler and her daughters are not welcomed at the farm. When Edwin Fischer, Fanny's older brother, takes notice of Eleanor and begins to court her, much to the disapproval of his sister, Fanny makes life even more difficult for the Detweiler women. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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