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Amish Knitting Circle by Karen Anna Vogel
3.0

Overwall I enjoyed this book, but it is not my favorite Amish story that I have read thus for. I knew it was a serial and that the stories would be told in snippets, much like serials in magazines. But there were a lot of inconsistencies in the story; not with the story itself but the characters and their personalities. It seemed like it changed from episode to episode. The one who remained the most consistent was Granny and even then there were a few moments where she acted in a way that was a complete 180 than what we expected. I also didn't like the initial introduction of Luke as I felt it was too cliched. He too had a 180 done on him as he was painted a villiain only to have a backstory that was more "developed" later. There were also a few other incidents where in the span of a few pages, Lizzie, went back and forth between Roman and Amos as romantic interests and seemed very fickle although there was a good reason for that. And with it being in episodes there wasn't enough time to really develop any of the stories fully without feeling like things were fully fleshed out.

Overall a decent book but not one I would read again nor am I interested in finishing the series. I do like how the threads that were introduced in this set of stories were resolved and there were no huge cliffhangers which is nice since I really dislike that in a book. So that was nice to have a resolution to this chapter in all these women's lives.