The Search Book Review

About the book:

A ten year old girl makes a quick decision to switch her baby sister to give her a better life. Now fifteen years later she witnesses the effects of that decision.

Lainy O’Toole is on her way to culinary school when her car breaks down in a little Amish town. The same town she where she made that decision so many years ago.

Lainy unknowingly befriends her sister who just happened to be in town visiting her overbearing grandmother at Rose Hill Farm. Bess Riehl thought she was just visiting but it quickly becomes clear that she is there to work the farm. But it’s not so bad working with the hired hand, Billy Lapp.

Lainey’s and Bess’s worlds are about to collide and the secrets that come to light will shock them both.

What I thought:

I chose to review this book mostly because of it being about the Amish. I was born and raised, until I was eight, in Pennsylvania just outside Amish country. It was very common to see the horse and buggy.

I really, really liked this book and will be heading to the library to look for other books written by Suzanne Woods Fischer. The book is well written and a fairly easy read. I know it’s good when I keep wanting to read more and more.

About Suzanne:

In no particular order, Suzanne Woods Fisher is a wife, mother, writer, lifelong student of the Bible, raiser of puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind, a gardener and a cook…the latter two with sporadic results.

Suzanne has loved to write since she was a young teen. After college, she started to write for magazines and became a contributing editor for Christian Parenting Today magazine. Her family moved to Hong Kong for four years, just as the internet was developing, and she continued to write articles in a 44-story high-rise apartment, sending manuscripts 7,000 miles away with a click of a key.

After returning from Hong Kong, Suzanne decided to give her first novel a try. For four and a half months, she worked on an antediluvian computer in a cramped laundry room. She didn’t even tell her husband what she was up to. When the novel was completed, she told her family at dinner one night that she had written a book. “That’s why there’s no food in this house!” said her slightly insensitive sons.

Undaunted…Suzanne found a small royalty publisher for that book and wrote three more (all earned multiple awards). With help from an agent, she now has numerous books under contract with Revell. Also look for Suzanne’s Amish non-fiction, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World, a non-fiction book of stories and examples about the Old Order Amish, as well as Amish Proverbs, and coming in Spring of 2011, look for Amish Values for Your Family. The Choice and The Waiting are the previous books in the Lancaster County Secrets Collection

Suzanne can be found on-line at: http://www.suzannewoodsfisher.com/

Link to buy the book: Search, The: A Novel (Lancaster County Secrets)

I received a copy of this by the publisher, author or PR company to facilitate this review. My opinion is my own.

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Suzanne Woods Fisher’s latest installment of the Lancaster County Secrets, The Search, is just out and to celebrate Suzanne is hosting The Search iPad Giveaway!

A brand new iPad (16KB with Wi-Fi)

• Signed copies of all three Lancaster Country Secrets books (The Choice, The Waiting, & The Search)

To enter, simply click on the icons below to fill out the entry form/s, then tell 5 or more friends about the contest. Oh, and enter soon! Winner will be announced on February 3rd at Suzanne’s Everything is Coming Up Roses Facebook Party. (Did you know The Search takes place on a rose farm?)

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Anne

I'm a mother of 2 who likes to get involved in too much! Besides writing here I started a non-profit, I'm on the PTO board, very active in my community and volunteer in the school. I enjoy music, reading, cooking, traveling and spending time with my family. We just adopted our 3rd cat and love them all!

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