Title: TEMPTATION
Author: Karen Ann Hopkins
Source: Paperback from Amazon
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Your heart misleads you.
That's what my friends and family say.
But I love Noah.
And he loves me.
We met and fell in love in the sleepy farming
community of Meadowview, while we rode our horses together through the grassy
fields and in those moments in each other's arms.
It should be
ROSE & NOAH
forever, easy.
But it won't be.
Because he's Amish.
And I'm not.
My take...
I adored this book so, so very much. I loved Noah
even though at times he drove me mad. But his simple ways was a huge selling
point. There are days I think of how great it would be to shed all the
unnecessary items of the modern world and just be. Just be. That is all. No
cell phones, no reality crap tv, no distractions. But then there are days I
realize I'd be a fish out of water, gasping for air (technology) begging for
the use of my cell phone and car.
Yes, I did mention that Noah drove me mad. So
here is the deal. Noah and Rose's relationship escalates rather quickly. But
that is just how it is for Noah and his people. Rose has the excuse that she is
only 16. I remember being the exact same way at that age. I just knew I was
going to marry my first love (also a forbidden relationship) and we'd be happy
ever after. (We didn't, and I couldn't be happier.) But anyhow, the immediate
love is not my problem. No, that all falls on Noah. The boy expects Rose to do
all the sacrificing in the name of love. He wants her to leave her family and
everything she has ever known to become Amish. Never once did he even remotely
consider doing it himself and become English, besides in a fleeting thought.
That is what made me mad.
But this was a brilliant and amazing love story
because even though both were so wrong for each other in the eyes of their
world, they still loved each other and fought for a way to be together. Even at
their lowest, they still held out for the smallest of hope that it would all
work out in the end. And that hope is what kept me reading and reading to the
end. I had to know would if it work out. Would they still feel the same at the
end? It definitely is an addicting storyline that is for sure.
4 Stars and I look forward to when I can start
the next book in the series. I have to know if the choices that were made were
for the best or if there is change coming. It worries me and excites me where
the book left off for what is to come.
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