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Jolina PetersheimTyndale House Publishers / 2013 / ePubOur Price$7.994.8 out of 5 stars for The Outcast - eBook. View reviews of this product. 40 Reviews
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loriwellerLancaster,PaAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Excellent Book!!!!!February 2, 2014loriwellerLancaster,PaAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Outcast.The Outcast is one of the best recent Amish books I have read. For a first book, Jolina Petersheim is a brilliant author. She is able to keep you on the edge of your seat. It is a book you keep saying, I'll do it after one more chapter, and it just never gets done until the book is done. The story revolves around a girl,Rachel,being shunned by her family and the whole community unless she repents. But in repenting a secret would be revealed that will cause more hurt to the family and community. So Rachel decides to keep the secret. The story incorporates how pride, anger, secrets, forgiveness, bitterness, and misunderstanding can all occur when dealing with guilt. Rachel is helped by Englishers to survive in the English world.
Overall, it is an excellent book. I can't wait to read Jolina's next book The Midwife.
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joeym11IndianaAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Great bookJanuary 2, 2014joeym11IndianaAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Outcast.The Outcast
By: Jolina Petersheim
You will love this book one of those you start reading and you can't put it down. I loved the characters the way Jolina wrote them you would think they were real. The story keeps you wanting to read a story of betrayal and tragedy. Will she have the strength to forgive? Think here she is Rachel Stolzfus from a Mennonite family having a child and not being married. Is being shunned by her people. Will forgiveness come through. This is a emotional story. I love how Jolina writes and will look forward to her next book. -
TabletAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5WOW!!!!!!December 27, 2013TabletAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Outcast.WOW!!!! I have to start out saying, I don't read Amish fiction. HOWEVER, this book is one of the best that I've read this year. This is a beautiful story of redemption, forgiveness, and true love. The characters and plot draw you in from the very beginning. The characters are very believable and you experience what they are going through. You won't be able to put this book down and it will stay with you long after you have turned the last page. Don't miss this book. I highly recommend it to all readers. I look forward to her next novel. I received a complimentary copy of this book from bookfun.org in exchange for my honest opinion. Many thanks!! tab :)!
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ShaiNorfolk, NEAge: 35-44Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Secrets become prisonsDecember 25, 2013ShaiNorfolk, NEAge: 35-44Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Outcast.The Outcast is one of the few Amish fiction books I have read but it is absolutely the best! I loved the way Ms. Petersheim uses a character to be the third person narrator throughout the story. She incorporates the present with the heavenly and gives the reader a preview into the heart motives behind each character. It is done brilliantly and in such a way that although the reader would like to hate certain characters, they cannot help but feel sympathetic toward them. It is a fantastic way of displaying the way hurt can motivate actions of self-preservation.
When Rachel Stoltzfus' greatest sin is made public, she has the choice to repent or be expelled from her community. She is a good girl and has always been obedient. But when one mistake changes everything, Rachel feels the abandonment of those she trusted most, including the God she thought she knew. Knowing she is guilty but does not bear the guilt alone, Rachel's pride keeps her from repentance and fear keeps her from telling the truth. Rachel leans on her own understanding and tries to protect those she loves with silence, even at the expense of losing her best friend, her sister, Leah. Without her repentance, Rachel cannot continue to exist in the world she has known her whole life. But pride, anger and bitterness keep Rachel from repentance and she is forced into the world of the Englischers and an eccentric woman named Ida Mae. Together these two strong women find healing from their pasts when all is stripped away and the life of an innocent hangs in the balance.
True love seems to evade Rachel and because of her sins, she does not feel worthy to receive it. Love is the strongest of all however, and it will pursue her. She has to decide if she can lay down her own self-loathing long enough to find healing in forgiveness.
Secrets meant to protect become prisons of misunderstandings. Can all of those involved forgive before it is too late? The Outcast is an excellent book and I would highly recommend it! I look forward to Ms. Petersheim's next book, The Midwife. I received this book from the The Book Club Network and Tyndale Publishing in exchange for my honest opinion. -
debwilsonSummerfield, FLAge: 18-24Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5December 21, 2013debwilsonSummerfield, FLAge: 18-24Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel and Leah have been inseparable since before they were born. As identical twins they do everything together. But their personalities are as opposite as night and day. Leah is meek, quiet and submissive; and Rachel is fiercely independent, stubborn and strong-willed. So when Leah marries a bishop and moves to Tennessee, it is Rachel she calls upon to help her when she becomes ill with her first pregnancy.
Secrets long hidden are coming to light, and Rachel's arrival to her twin sister's home may not be the best thing for either of them. When Rachel turn up pregnant, Leah's husband, Tobias, is more than ready to put Rachel out of their home for her adultery. But while Rachel is not confessing who the father is, her childhood friend, Judah King, desperately wants to make her his wife even though she has a child. When the baby's life is at stake, will the partner in her sin come forward to save little Eli's life?
This novel is in a genre all it's own; Amish, suspense, and re-told classic all rolled into one! Naturally, the story line itself is of great interest to anyone who has read the scarlet letter (or researched it well enough to write school reports on it!) but while I have never read the original tale, this one was more than enough to satisfy my curiosity! I was completely blown away by the tension throughout this book, and the page turning action and conflicts had me at the edge of my seat. It is unique, poignant, and an unforgettable saga of love, betrayal, forgiveness and mercy.
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