A Mother's Love

Patchwork #21

by Kelly Ann Riley

Mystery

Genres: Mystery

297 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sarah goes with Audrey and Amy's on a class trip to Amish country. They stay overnight with an Amish family. Sarah admires the quilts and is told that they were made by the women's daughter who has left home and they don't know where she is. The daughter has been shunned so they can't talk about her. Sarah feels really bad for the woman and sets out to find the daughter. Sarah's own daughter is having a baby and is over due so Sarah is worried about her.

[Roberta · Rating 2 out of 5]

In the first two chapters, Sarah goes with her twin granddaughters, Audrey and Amy, on a class trip to New York's Amish country. They stay overnight with an Amish couple, Annie and Abram. These first two chapters pretty much ruined the book for me. I live in the geographical area where a lot of this story is supposed to have taken place and the author might as well have been writing about Wendy and her brothers flying to Neverland and meeting Tinkerbell and Captain Hook.

The kinds of places that Sarah and her granddaughters, and later Sarah and Maggie, shop in a row of cute little shops full of Amish-made crafts, do not exist here. Don't come here looking for tourist traps like that. Shopping here is side-of-the-road. Easier to get your horse shod than to buy a quilt.

Page 128 "I heard D. tasted beer." She sounds like it's a big deal but it would be surprising if D. didn't drink some beer during Rumspringa. Maybe her point is that he is under age. But the Amish drink beer; they don't have any religious dietary restrictions. They don't encourage drinking but it's not prohibited either.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another adventure with Sarah and friends.

[Dina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sarah helps an Amish woman try to find her shunned daughter. I really liked this one! It reminded me of reading a Beverly Lewis book.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sarah Hart and her twin grand daughters learn a bit about the Amish way of life and of course Sarah finds a mystery! Katie Fisher is missing and her mother Annie wants to find her.