The Bridesmaid is about a young Amish woman named Joanna, who is 25 years old and still not married. She is from Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania. She has a secret passion for writing short stories. As the name of the book suggests she has been asked to be a bridesmaid a couple of times, and her sister cautions her "three times a bridesmaid, never a bride."
While visiting Virginia Beach for a funeral, she meets a Amish young man named Eben Troyer from Shipshewana, Indiana. They get along so well that before they leave they get each others address and start to write back and forth. Of course the relationship evolves to phone calls every other Friday. The only problem is Eben's younger brother has left the family farm to try out the world. In Amish families the family farm is left to the youngest son. This means Eben's father is depending on Eben to take over the family farm. Will Joanna be willing to move to Indiana if Leroy doesn't return to the family farm? Would her bishop grant her permission to join a different church district?
Eben's and Joanna's relationship causes tension and jealousy between Joanna and her younger sister Cora Jane. What will Cora Jane do to cause Joanna to get in trouble with Preacher Yoder? You will have to read the story and find out.
I enjoyed the story very much, as I always do with a Beverly Lewis book. I love the whole concept of the Amish world. The close knit family and a community working for the greater good of all. Being self-sufficient and having your whole life and all your decisions revolving around your belief and faith in God.
This was a second book in the series Home & Hickory Hollow, but I did not feel at all like I missed anything by not reading the first book.
I received this book from Bethany House Publishers as a free book to read and review.
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