Childhood friends joined by a painful past…Can love blossom between them? After her father falls ill, Lizzie Miller and her family desperately need help to keep the farm going during harvesttime. Neighbor Paul Burkholder is eager to lend a hand–and to court Lizzie. But Paul has a secret that he fears could push Lizzie away. Can they finally heal from a tragedy in their pasts…and open their … open their hearts to each other?
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I enjoyed reading this sweet, easy to read Amish romance story. I liked the main character Lizzie and her love for her family and Amish community even with her strained relationship with her dad. I loved reading about how the community comes together to help Lizzie’s family and farm after her father becomes ill. It really demonstrates how important community, family and values are to the Amish.
Lizzie and Paul were a great couple to read about and how they helped each other with their personal struggles and encouraging each other to follow their dreams and passions.
I really liked this book and would recommend this quick reading, love inspired Amish romance.
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A Love for Lizzie is a rewarding Amish novel. This is the first book I have read by Tracey J. Lyons and I enjoyed it. This is Ms. Lyons debut novel for Love Inspired and her first Amish novel as well. I liked her engaging writing style with lovely but realistic characters. Lizzie is twenty years old and prefers to stay on the family farm to avoid strangers who stare at her. When Lizzie was ten years old, an accident took her brother’s life and left her with visible scar. Paul Burkholder is Lizzie’s friend and has been since they were children. Paul would like to court Lizzie, but she keeps pushing him away. Lizzie has not been able to move forward with her life since her brother died and feels that no man would want her because of her outward appearance. Lizzie fails to realize that Paul fell in love with her beautiful inside. It was so sweet when Paul said that Lizzie’s paintings show her inner beauty and strength. I thought A Love for Lizzie was an emotional story. Readers get to join Lizzie on a journey to overcome the past. I like how the community came together to help the Miller family in their time of need and continued to show up each day for them. God has a guiding hand in our lives, and everything happens for a reason as we see in A Love for Lizzie. My favorite quote from A Love for Lizzie is “this day wasn’t my doing—it’s a gift from God”. I did find one discrepancy in the story regarding the death of Lizzie’s brother. At one point, Paul stated he had just arrived when the accident occurred. Later in the story, it states Paul did not arrive until after the incident had happened. Otherwise, A Love for Lizzie was an engaging and satisfying novel. There is a recipe for Double Treat Cookies included (a peanut butter cookie with chocolate chips and peanuts). A Love for Lizzie is an uplifting Amish story with its focus on faith, love and family.
A love for Lizzie is a great Amish Love Inspired novel. No matter how many of them I read, they are all vastly different. The author has done a great job in creating realistic characters. I can definetly understand being self conscious like the main character is…. Both Paul and LIzzie are dealing with pain and struggles. Like so many of us do. God has a way of reminding us to look past our past, look beyond our flaws and reminding us that we are created in HIS image. That makes us worthy of the love he created for us. This was a great sweet Amish story. I look forward to more from the author.
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I enjoyed reading A Love for Lizzie by Tracey J Lyons from Love Inspired Suspense. Lyons first foray into the Amish fiction genre, in my opinion, has gone quite well and I look forward to reading more from this talented author.
Lizzie Miller and Paul Burkholder have been friends since childhood. When Lizzie’s father suffers a heart attack, Paul spends his days at the Miller farm, helping out. Along with many others in their Amish community, helping out on the Miller’s farm while Lizzie’s father recuperates is a blessing for a farm that was already struggling.
A shared childhood tragedy fills both Lizzie and Paul with enormous guilt; they both carry scars that seem to hold them back from a happier life. Paul wants to court Lizzie but first he has something he must confess to her, something about that day in her father’s barn, the day that changed their lives forever.
Will the scars from the tragedy that Lizzie carries stop her from being receptive to Paul’s desire to court her? Can the Two childhood friends find love and healing in each other and the God they worship?
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This book was cute for what it was. If you like Amish romances, you will probably like this. It was clean and not preachy.
Well, I just don’t think this was the book for me. I could not connect to these characters. Paul and Lizzie couldn’t make up their minds about what they actually felt for each other for most of the book. Lizzie simply frustrated me with her mood swings and stubbornness.
I struggled with inaccuracies that were in this story related to the Amish people and their traditions and I found myself distracted with some inconsistancies in the storyline relating to the timeline of the tragic event of the past.
(2.5 stars)
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While this wasn’t my favorite book, I did enjoy it somewhat. I did like it, but I did notice the inaccuracies about the Amish lifestyle. I haven’t read anything from this author before. I think that I’m going to giver other books a try.
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What we know about the Amish is that they are faith filled people, the only thing more important then faith is family. This is a story of both, Lizzie lost her brother to an accident that also scarred her face. She now thinks she is unworthy of love, Paul shows her that is so untrue and that faith in god and love will keep their love strong if she will just give a chance. This is Tracey J. Lyons first Amish novel and I sure hope it isn’t her last, she writes with such passion that it comes out in her book!
I can see now why this novel is entitled, “A Love for Lizzie.” Lizzie Miller needs all the love she can get! This book was a tougher read for me only because of the heartbreaking subject matter and melancholy feel of the book. Carrying the burden of your brothers accidental death while struggling with your own disfigurement and settling for a life of spinsterhood would depress anyone! Sweet, wonderful, faithful Paul is the hope that never gives up on Lizzie and it’s this hope that is exactly what Lizzie needs.
Beautifully written with incredible character development and the picturesque imagery of Miller’s Crossing, A Love for Lizzie is a sweet tale of love, forgiveness, and strength; and giving your past, and your future, to the Lord.
The ending was gratifying and the aspect I loved the most was the fact that Lizzie was an artist and used this gift as a way to grieve. This reminded me that I have my own artistic talents, and since I am going through a tough time myself, that maybe it’s time I used my talents as well. A touching and graceful story.
*I have reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from the publisher through JustReads Blog Tours and NetGalley. All opinions are completely honest, and my own.
About the Book:
In A Love for Lizzie:
Childhood friends joined by a painful past…Can love blossom between them?
After her father falls ill, Lizzie Miller and her family desperately need help to keep the farm going during harvest time. Neighbor Paul Burkholder is eager to lend a hand–and to court Lizzie. But Paul has a secret that he fears could push Lizzie away. Can they finally heal from a tragedy in their pasts…and open their hearts to each other?
My thoughts:
I love a good Amish novel and this one was fabulous. The great mystery in this book is really just a bit of a subplot to the romance. It’s not a mystery novel at all but just wanted to throw that bit in there. Lizzie had a brother who died in a tragic accident. She feels that her father is forever looking down on her and wishing she had died instead of his son.
So Lizzie is looking to marry a man her father will approve who can take over the farm. And that man is not Paul. Paul is a woodworker. He loves what he does enough to risk alienating himself from his own father. He’s not a farmer. So why does Lizzie feel something for him?
Meanwhile, Lizzie has secrets of her own.
Both Paul and Lizzie are stuck in the past with the death of her brother. Can they work through it? Or more importantly, can they work through it together and emerge whole on the other side?
I loved delving into this new Amish fiction romance novel. A Love for Lizzie takes you to a quaint Amish area where everyone knows everyone and their past. Lizzie has both physical and emotional scars from the accident that took her brother’s life. She blames herself and can’t get past that day in her mind. It’s like her life stopped that day and she can only remember the life that was and not the life that is.
Her one escape is a forbidden one that her father must never find out about.
Oooh. It’s a good book! I read it in one sitting. It’s a fast read. No major plot twists or danger. Just a good old fashioned romance. If you want a good book to read right before going to bed this is the one for you. It will give you sweet dreams for sure! Great piece of Amish fiction. Highly recommend.
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A page turning look at the life of Lizzie.
I don’t read a whole lot of books published by Love Inspired as I found they tend to have the same basic story line. However, I made an exception for this one as the description sounded fun. It lived up to my expectations very well. It was a unique story about an Amish girl who got hurt and had to face some difficult things before she found love. I really liked how Tracey J. Lyons used this story to show how God doesn’t see us as we see ourselves, and that His love really does make you feel whole. Great Job Tracey!
I look forward to reading more books by you Tracey.
I give this book a 4 out of 5 stars, for the likeable & relatable characters, the lessons conveyed and the unique look at the Amish lifestyle.
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MY THOUGHTS ON THIS BOOK
It had been 10 years since Lizzie had lost her brother David in a barn accident. But no matter the amount of time has passed, her family still mourned her brother’s death as if it happened yesterday. The accident also left Lizzy with a horrible scar across her face, a scar that kept her home on their Farm so no one would be able to see what she looks like. No one but their neighbor Paul that is. Paul has always been there for her no matter what. Would their spending so much time together cause feelings to happen between the two of them?
This is such a sweet story, despite the hurt and difficult feelings that comes with losing a brother and young child. Paul and Lizzie’s life wasn’t always easy, because each of their families already had their future planned for them, despite what the two of them wanted for themselves. Since Amish dads like to control their families so strongly, this caused a lot of friction and tension between Paul and Lizzie as well as both of their families. I feel the author deals with this and an exceptional way. Author Tracey Lyons has created a beautiful story of love, forgiveness and Redemption, with realistic characters and their development throughout the story. I just love Paul and Lizzy, and Paul’s attitude over the scar on Lizzie’s of face was so very heartwarming and that I just cried.
If you love Amish fiction then this is a story that you will love to read. This is a novella, so you will be able to read it and just a few hours. This is also Ms. Lyons’ debut novel with love inspired, as well as her first Amish story oh, so you are in for a real treat. And to make the story a little sweeter, there is a recipe for the double treat cookies at the end of the book.
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