An emotional and heartwarming story
I loved Omi and Bo’s heartwarming, sweet and funny Amish romance. The story will give you all the swoony swoons while also pulling at your heartstrings with all the emotions. This one had me feeling all the feels - laughing, crying, swooning, cringing, teeth gritting, and cheering. Both Omi and Bo (and Ruth) are portrayed as real, relatable people who have flaws and make mistakes, but are really trying to just do their best as messy fallible humans. Omi is an identical twin. She is the kind, quiet and faithful twin while Ruth is the vivacious, impulsive and self-centered twin. Bo is a local man who grew up with Omi and Ruth. Omi has loved him for years but now that he is dating Ruth, she has tried to put her feelings aside. Everything changes and gets messy and painful when Omi reluctantly agrees to pretend she’s Ruth for a buggy ride home and Bo kisses her. It will take faith, divine guidance, kindness, honesty, and matchmaking grandparents to get Bo and Omi to their HEA while honoring and protecting Omi’s relationship with Ruth. The secondary characters, as always with this author’s stories, have dimension and are integral to the storyline which just adds further dimension to the story as a whole. Anna and Felty, Bo’s grandparents, are a hoot. They continue to be my favorite secondary characters in this series. Their love for each other and their efforts to “help” their grandchildren are portrayed with such depth I feel like I know them and since they’re recurring characters they feel like old friends. I especially love that even characters that could be judged as less than, like Ruth, have a redemption arc. The character gets to grow but so does the reader. This was a beautiful story of choice, kindness, grace, forgiveness, and love all within the beautiful backdrop of the Amish community’s faith and lifestyle. The story was well written and included witty dialogue, three dimensional characters who grow, and an engaging storyline as told through sweet moments, laughs, supportive friends and family, missteps, faith, and heart squeezing love.