Beverly Lewis

The Powerful Conclusion to Beverly Lewis' Latest #1 Bestselling Series! Rose Kauffman pines for prodigal Nick Franco, the Bishop's foster son who left the Amish under a cloud of suspicion after his foster brother's death. His rebellion led to the "silencing" of their beloved Bishop. But is Nick really the rebel he appears to be? Rose's lingering feelings for her wayward friend refuse to fade, but she is frustrated that Nick won't return and make things right with the People. Nick avowed his love for Rose--but will he ever be willing to sacrifice modern life for her? Meanwhile, Rose's older sister, Hen, is living in her parents' Dawdi Haus. Her estranged "English" husband, injured and helpless after a car accident, has reluctantly come to live with her and their young daughter during his recovery. Can their marriage recover, as well? Is there any possible middle ground between a woman reclaiming her old-fashioned Amish lifestyle and thoroughly modern man?

The Mercy

Jeni Enjaian

As I mentioned in my review of "The Judgment," the first book in this series, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with Lewis as an author and with the Amish genre. I believe that it is quickly becoming a trite, formulaic go-to for someone who aspires to be an author only for success and limited notoriety (notoriety among the unfortunately large group of casual readers of Christian chic lit).
I finished out this trilogy because a thin thread of desire-to-find-out-what-happens remained from the first book. I also really wanted Nick to come back into the story. However, when he did it was supremely unsatisfying. The Nick that reentered the story was not the same Nick that left at the end of the first book. The change in him felt completely unbelievable largely because Lewis spends almost no time looking at the change in him. He simply leaves as one person and enters as another with only an ex post facto explanation of what happened in his life in the time that he was out of the story.

On that note, everything resolved itself far too well. I am tired of cookie cutter stories where everyone ends up getting exactly what they want with only a few bumps in the road along the way.

The Amish and modern worlds clash in this moving conclusion to The Rose Trilogy as two sisters love young men lost to the English world.

Zoe Stanford

I'm trash; I don't even care. These books are my ultimate guilty pleasure, I just can't not love them

The Mercy

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