Review: Adoring Addie

The Cramer and Mosier families have held a Hatfield-and-McCoy-like grudge for as many years as anyone can remember, although the younger generations have no clue as to why the families dislike each other with such intensity.  Addie's parents assume she will marry the Bishop's son, but when Jonathan Mosier moves to Lancaster County, Addie and Jonathan form an instant connection.  Old tensions are renewed, and Addie's parents insist she marry Phillip Eicher.  Addie and Jonathan feel their only hope is to reconcile the two families, which means discovering the cause of the breach in the first place.

I don't believe I've read any other books by Leslie Gould; Adoring Addie is the second in 'The Courtships of Lancaster County' series, but you can easily read it as a stand-alone story.  Although it felt a bit slow in the beginning, once the story picked up, I zipped through it.  It was pretty much 'Romeo and Juliet' set in the Pennsylvania countryside with a happier ending than Shakespeare's original.  The author does a good job of bringing in a fair amount of other characters, probably to set up their stories for future books.  Adoring Addie was a light and entertaining read.

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