1. The Haven, Stoney Ridge Seasons Series #2
    Suzanne Woods Fisher
    Revell / 2012 / Trade Paperback
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  1. Heart2Heart
    Victorville, CA
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    New Beginnigs arrive in Stoney Ridge!
    August 13, 2012
    Heart2Heart
    Victorville, CA
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Welcome back to Stoney Ridge! Spring usually signals the rebirth of life and the end of a long winter. Hope returns and there is beauty to be found everywhere. Now that spring is here, I want to introduce you to a few new friends!

    Sadie Lapp, she lives in Stoney Ridge on Windmill Farm and today is her first day back after being away in Berlin, Ohio, and helping her sister Julia, and her brother in law, Roman settle into Roman's childhood home. While she was there she spent every day learning from a healer, an elderly Old Order Amish women, Deborah Yoder, in hopes she can bring some of that back to her home and the people who live here. But Sadie shows up at her family's farm with an unexpected bundle in her basket, a baby. How will she ever explain this to her father?

    Will Stoltz, has now been assigned a task to baby sit a family of Peregrine Falcons who have made their home on Windmill Farm. Being an endangered and rare species to bird lovers everywhere, game warden Mahlon Miller wants to endure they remain that way. Since Will was suspended from the university, his father has worked out an arrangement with Mahlon that Will be permitted to intern as a game warden and babysit the falcons until the babies have hatched and are ready to leave the nest. Will isn't exactly thrilled with this new assignment and makes arrangements to stay in a cottage on the Lapp's farm to avoid causing the family any undo hardship having him there in exchange for helping out around the farm. But Will always made it a point to dodge physical labor - academics were more to his liking. Oh, this wasn't good. not good at all. But will he be able to keep his mind on his work? Maybe this was a gift in disguise.

    Gideon Smucker is the newest school teacher this year at Twin Creeks School house and can't wait to teach all the kids from town this year. However he has a school boy's crush on Sadie Lapp and has since they went to school together. Now if he can only keep his mind on school work in between writing letters and sharing books with Sadie when she was in Ohio. Seems like life is about to get very interesting this spring! Hope you'll decide to join us and pick up a copy of The Haven to find out just what is going to happen next!

    I received The Haven by Suzanne Woods Fisher compliments of Litfuse Publicity for my honest review and since haven't read The Keeper, the first book in the Stoney Ridge Season Series, I couldn't wait to see where Suzanne would take some of her characters in this sequel. If you haven't had a chance to read The Keeper, Suzanne does a great job at catching you up in the first chapter with where the characters have come from before this story picks up, but trust me, this one is so good, you'll want to pick up The Keeper to get the back story on all the details! I have to say, I can't wait for the next one in this series and rate, The Haven a 5 out of 5 stars.
  2. Diane
    MA
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Sadie's Story
    August 13, 2012
    Diane
    MA
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Sadie Lapp is returning home from spending time at her sister's house when someone leaves a baby at her feet while she was sleeping at the bus station waiting for a ride home. When she returns home, she is faced with lots of questions, opinions and wrong assumptions. The community has turned against her since they believe that she is an unwed moother who was sent away to give birth. But no one will listen to shy little Sadies's true strory.

    Will Stolz is living with the Lapp's while he is "bird-sitting" the two falcons who have made this Amish farm their home. To earn his keep, Will helps out with the farming chores and gets to know the Lapp family, especially Sadie since he has the gift of quieting the young baby. What will become of Will's relationship with Sadie? Will the Lapp's ever find out who the mother of this baby is? Will everyone learn to forgive for their wrongs?

    I really enjoyed this second book in the Stoney Ridge series by Suzanne Woods Fisher! I am looking forward to seeing the next step in the Lapp family's story. A special thanks to Revell Publishing for allowing me to review this book in advance for them!

    Available August 2012 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
  3. Julieanne Miller
    Oregon
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Enjoyable read in Amish fiction
    August 10, 2012
    Julieanne Miller
    Oregon
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    The Haven is a sequel to The Keeper, which was a wonderful story of an Amish family living on Windmill Farm, near the small town of Stoney Ridge, Pennsylvania. This story has many very surprising twists, even from the first page!

    Sadie, the oldest daughter living in the home with her younger sister (Mary Kate), her widowed father, Amos, and their housekeeper, Fern, has just returned from staying with her older sister, Julia and Julia's husband, Roman, at their home in Ohio. Sadie has returned home with a secret, one not kept for long with a very curious little sister who somehow ferrets out secrets and answers very quickly! It begins by affecting the whole family, then all their friends and neighbors, and all the members of the local Amish community. Sadie feels completely misunderstood and is very sad that her friends have turned against her without even knowing the facts of the situation.

    Will Stoltz, a young intern to the local Game Warden, has been appointed to keep track of a falcon family which is laying eggs and apparently will raise their new family on the farm. The falcons are an endangered species and have attracted huge public interest in their new habitat and activities. Will, who has some secrets of his own, is invited to live in a small cottage on the farm and, of course, ends up becoming very attracted to Sadie, a girl unlike any other he has ever known in his "English" world. In addition to his "falcon duties" he is ordered to be useful to Amos with the physical labor involved in keeping a farm up to snuff! He has never done physical labor before and has a lot to learn!

    Gideon (Gid) Smucker is the schoolteacher at Twin Creeks Schoolhouse where Mary Kate (M.K.) is a student. He has always intended to eventually court and marry Sadie and is extremely happy she has returned home from her stay in Ohio. He, however, also turns against her as he believes the rumors and lies which have swirled about her since her return to her home.

    This is a fast-moving story with much serious discussion over thought-provoking situations, and much humor due to the many antics of the younger sister and her friends (and of some of the adults, like elderly Uncle Hank). The secrets are slowly revealed and resolved in an amazing way. A huge part of the story involves forgiveness on the part and hearts of many of the characters; seeking God's forgiveness for wrongs committed and discovering how relationships can change drastically when this has been properly practiced from the heart. A great read! The Haven is book #2 in the Stoney Ridge Seasons series.
  4. Diane A. Brown - The Reader's Cove
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Choices of the Heart
    August 4, 2012
    Diane A. Brown - The Reader's Cove
    Quality: 4
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 4
    When Sadie Lapp brings home a surprise, the Amish community is in shock. The stories circulate, but is it really the truth? Sadie's disappointment is evident, but holds tightly to her beliefs and faith. Her father Amos is thankful that Will, a English summer student, has come to protect the endangered falcons on his farm. The spring and early summer bring many misunderstandings but Will and Sadie become friends. What future might they have together?

    The story flows well and easy to visualize. The characters are lively, full of challenges and problems to overcome. The Haven is a lovely story of love, forgiveness, and starting over.

    "Available August 2012 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group."
  5. Annie
    Oregon
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Refreshing summer read
    August 2, 2012
    Annie
    Oregon
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Sadie Lapp plans a surprise return to Stoney Ridge after a visit to Ohio. Little does she know that part of the surprise will be on her. Although her family is delighted to see her, little sister M.K. starts a rumor fire with unthinking remarks about Sadie's baggage.

    Shy Gideon Smucker is delighted to know Sadie is back in Stoney Ridge, but every move he makes around her only seems to upset her. He suspects her chilly attitude toward him has something to do with the wildlife intern living on the Lapps' farm.

    Will Stoltz, the intern, discovers Sadie to be refreshingly different from the girls he's known, and before long he finds himself looking for excuses to spend time with her. However, he's hiding a secret that will endanger his position on the Lapp farm, as well as betray the trust Sadie's family has placed in him.

    The Haven is a delightful story of a family who lives by their faith and love for one another. In these days of ever more graphic fiction in the general market, I found The Haven to be just that–a haven of gentleness. I wish I could sit down at the supper table with the Lapps and absorb some of the peace that fills their lives.

    I give The Haven two thumbs up, and recommend it for family reading.

    My thanks to Revell for providing my review copy.
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