When I started reading The Keeper by Suzanne Woods Fisher, I wasn’t in the mood for an Amish book. I was in the mood for a contemporary romantic suspense type book. So I was kind of dreading reading it, I just wasn’t wanting an Amish story. But, I love Suzanne Woods Fisher, so I plunged in.
I found Julia a bit tedious at first, she got on my nerves and came off as sort of selfish. Later on, I saw my first impression of Julia was incorrect. Soon, I found myself falling in love with the Kapp family, loving every time uncle Hank yells, MK goes crashing through the door, Menno “YAW’s”, and Fern sets her foot down! I find myself clammering for more. The Keeper is my favorite of Suzanne Woods Fisher’s books yet!
The Keeper made me cry in a good way, bringing to focus the importance of Organ Donation. I happen to have a niece who has been blessed to receive not one but two liver transplants, so Organ Donation is very important to me. I am an Organ Donor and will not hesitate to encourage anyone to donate as well! It is a gift of life!
About the book:
Julia Lapp has planned on marrying Paul Fisher since she was a girl. Now twenty-one, she looks forward to their wedding with giddy anticipation. When Paul tells her he wants to postpone the wedding–again–she knows who is to blame. Perpetual bachelor and spreader of cold feet, Roman Troyer, the Bee Man.
Roamin’ Roman travels through the Amish communities of Ohio and Pennsylvania with his hives full of bees, renting them out to farmers in need of pollinators. He relishes his nomadic life, which keeps him from thinking about all he has lost. He especially enjoys bringing his bees to Stoney Ridge each year. But with Julia on a mission to punish him for inspiring Paul’s cold feet, the Lapp farm is looking decidedly less pleasant.
Can Julia secure the future she’s always dreamed of? Or does God have something else in mind?
About Suzanne:
Her interest in the Amish began with her grandfather, W.D. Benedict, who was raised Plain. She has many, many Plain relatives living in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and travels back to Pennsylvania, as well as to Ohio, a couple of times each year for research.
Suzanne has a great admiration for the Plain people and believes they provide wonderful examples to the world. In both her fiction and non-fiction books, she has an underlying theme: You don’t have to “go Amish” to incorporate many of their principles–simplicity, living with less, appreciating nature, forgiving others more readily– into your life.
When Suzanne isn’t writing or bragging to her friends about her first new grandbaby (!), she is raising puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind. To Suzanne’s way of thinking, you just can’t take life too seriously when a puppy is tearing through your house with someone’s underwear in its mouth.
Suzanne can be found on-line at: www.suzannewoodsfisher.com.
