Review: White Christmas Pie
November 17th, 2008 | 
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Today Christian Fiction Blog Alliance presents White Christmas Pie by Wanda Brunstetter – Barbour Publishing (September 1, 2008).
About the book:
Step into Amish country for this bittersweet holiday romance. Here you’ll meet Will Henderson, a young man tortured by his past, and Karen Yoder, a young woman looking for answers. Add a desperate father searching for his son, and you have all the ingredients for a first-class romance that will inspire and enthrall.
Abandoned by his father, Will Henderson was raised by an Amish couple. Now he’s about to marry Karen Yoder but is having second thoughts. Can Will overcome the bitterness of his past in order to secure his future? Karen cannot break through the barrier her fiance has suddenly constructed around his heart. When she seeks the advice of an old boyfriend, Will begins to see green. Has he already lost his chance for happiness?
When an accident threatens Will’s life, the strength of blood ties is tested. Will a recipe for White Christmas pie contain the ingredients for a happily-ever-after?
My review:
I’m going to be brutally honest – I did not like this book. I began the book with anticipation because I’d never read anything written by Wanda Brunstetter and had heard good things about her Amish books.
However, I felt like this book was lacking substance. In my opinion, it just isn’t on par with a lot of today’s Christian fiction. It did a lot of “telling,” not “showing,” of what was happening. And the characters were cookie-cutter characters all from the same mold. They spoke the same, acted the same.
As far as the Amish setting, I really didn’t learn a lot about the Amish that I didn’t already know. In reality, if the Amish references were removed, the story wouldn’t change at all.
On the other hand, the story line and themes were really good. A father, who deserted his son years before, goes on a quest to find his son and ask for forgiveness while the son struggles with being abandoned and eventually with forgiving his father. The son’s emotions from being abandoned also jeopardize his relationship with his future wife.
While forgiveness is central to the story line, I liked how the theme of healing was woven into the story.
Overall, I would recommend this book if you are looking for something simple to read, something that doesn’t require a lot of concentration on details.
If you would like to read the first chapter of White Christmas Pie, go HERE
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