With tourist season about to start, Edna Esh is busier than ever, baking with her Amish Cookie Club friends and running her business serving meals to Englische tourists. You wouldn’t think she’d have time for matchmaking . . . Edna couldn’t be happier that her new daughter-in-law, Bethany, is pregnant. But Bethany is also her best helper, and morning sickness has her out of commission. Desperate … Desperate for more hands, Edna accepts a friend’s offer for her twin daughters, Rachel and Ella Mae, to step in. Trouble is, the young women are constantly bickering—except when Edna’s sons, Jeremiah and Jonas, are around . . . It’s soon clear that Rachel has taken a shine to Jeremiah, while Jonas is smitten with Ella Mae. It’s also clear the feelings aren’t reciprocated. But after confiding in the Cookie Club, Edna devises a plan for the pairs to spend more time together. The only problem is it seems to be failing. Yet it appears there’s a grander plan at work—and as nature takes its course, and the MayFest arrives, there’s reason to look forward to the bountiful sweetness of a double wedding come autumn . . . Includes Cookie Recipes!
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An Amish Cookie Club Courtship by Sarah Price is the 3rd installment in The Amish Cookie Club series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but they are entertaining to read as a whole. I was drawn right away into this humorous Amish tale. Edna Esh is a busy woman with her family and home to take care of plus fixing the noon meal for Englischers three days a week during the tourist season as well as baking cookies to sell at Yoder’s and MayFest fast approaching (which means more cookies). I felt bad for Edna when her friend, Wilma Schwartz pressures her into hiring her twin daughters to assist her with the meals. Edna can use the help, but she cannot stand the twins constant sniping at each other. The Amish Cookie Club as the four ladies are called who bake the cookies have done a little matchmaking in the past with the latest success story being Edna’s son, John and Mary’s daughter, Bethany who are expecting their first child. Wilma is hoping her twin daughters will take a liking to Edna’s two sons, Jonas and Jeremiah. I laughed often while reading this story. I felt bad for Edna having to endure the bickering going on between Rachel and Ella Mae. I thought it was funny that the twins are not even aware that they do it. These ladies have spent too much time at home with each other for company. Jonas was a lively character. He likes to tease, goad, and play pranks. It would take the right woman to deal with Jonas. I liked how we got to see different sides of Jonas, Jeremiah, Rachel, and Ella Mae. That what you see in the beginning is not all there is to a person. People have hidden depths. An Amish Cookie Club Courtship is a wonderful escapist novel. It was just what I needed this week. I hope there will be another story in The Amish Cookie Club series. An Amish Cookie Club Courtship is a diverting Amish tale with a colossal number of cookies, Mayfest madness, squabbling siblings, a bonus building, and mother’s playing matchmaker.
The story line was really good and the characters were fantastic as always. I wasn’t happy at first with the way the story was going and at one point I said, “I don’t think I want to read this anymore ” but I kept reading and I’m really glad I did. I wanted things to be different (the couples being matchmade) but the author honestly showed me that No it NEEDS to be this way. I closed the back cover smiling and realized I read the book in one afternoon! I NEED MORE BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR!!!
I have thoroughly enjoyed this series. My favorite was book two but all are good reads. All can be read as standalone. All are good clean reads for teenagers on up.
The twins, Rachel and Ella Mae have been my least favorite characters as they are so immature but so are the boys Jonas and Jeremiah. It was nice to see the four of them grow up.
I love the idea of a cookie club with close friendships, a weekly day to gather and connect all the while fulfilling a need in the community. It would be something I would love to do with some friends when it is safe to gather again.
I alternated between reading and listening to the audiobook and suggest either one for readers. The narrator is engaged with the characters in the audiobook.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher, Kensington Books, through NetGalley. All opinions expressed in the above review are entirely my own.
It was the twist and turns of the story that kept me captivated! Beautiful story filled with humor and so much love.
I loved how the characters complimented each other always having each other’s back with love and so much patience.
The author did an amazing job and I am glad I read this book.
I received a copy of this book from Netgally and this is my honest opinion.
An Amish Cookie Club Courtship by Sarah Price is a quick, easy to read Amish romance. This is the third in the series but can be read alone.
This installment involves the twin daughters of one of the members of the Cookie Club. starting employment with another member’s home business. They start out as being on the bratty side but keep reading as they will grow on you.
Their employer, Edna, gets in her head they would be perfect matches for her sons and sets out trying to match make. After all mother always knows best or does she.
I was given an ARC by Kensington and NetGalley for an honest review. .
The match makers/ Cookie makers are back and still up to no good!!! If you have been following this series or not the friends are back and some are set in there ways and others are ready to make some matches among there children. I love amish books and how simple of a life the authors portray and in this book it was very much the same it was a breath of fresh air with all the craziness going on in our world. I really enjoyed the sisters and how even though they are separate people how it was easy to lump them together into one for so many. I liked how the heart of the story was never judge a book by its cover because you will never get to know there person if you do. I also liked how the author kept this story a good clean read and making it suitable for all readers. Overall this is a fun read and well worth it. I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Thanks go to the publisher and Net-Galley for the complimentary copy of An Amish Cookie Club Courtship by Sarah Price for the purpose of reading and reviewing prior to publication. My opinions are my own, and no one has influenced them.
An Amish Cookie Club Courtship is a lovely Amish romance with engaging characters and an enjoyable plot. A pair of twins and two Amish brothers who start out at odds with each other, but love finds its way into their hearts in a most unexpected way.
There are two heroines in this tale. Rachel and Ella Mae, although twin sisters, their personalities are vastly different. Where one is quiet, the other is outspoken. Edna, the brothers’ maam, is determined to match her sons to the twins. Lots of twists and turns going on in this book.
The Brothers also have different personalities. Jonas is a jokester and irritates Rachel in the beginning, but that changes as Edna devises ways for them to spend time with each other. Ella Mae spends time with Jeremiah and discovers he’s much more to her tastes than Jonas.
The mother added a delightful twist to this tale, and I enjoyed the banter between her and the other ladies in their cookie club. There are several humorous moments that had me chuckling. In the end, Edna’s instincts proved right!
If you enjoy Amish romance with a great cast of characters, and a plot that will have you chuckling, then you will find An Amish Cookie Club Courtship a delightful reading experience. Sarah Price has a masterful ability to give her novels an authentic view of Amish life and community. Happy reading!
I have loved reading the Amish Cookie Club books. Books with the theme of matching making are some of my favorite. I love all of the women involved in the club. With tourist season approaching, Edna is busier than ever. Not only does she bake once a week, her business providing meals for the English are starting to pick up. While she is happy her daughter in law is expecting, good help will be hard to find. When her friend suggests her twin daughters, Edna hesitates. They are constantly bickering which would not be good for business. Desperate, Edna decides to give it a try. As time goes on, Edna realizes that when her two bachelor sons are around, the twins stop bickering. Could more be going on here?
I really do love this series. I look forward to more if available. I received a copy through Netgalley. A review was not required.
We are back with the life long friends in this Amish Community, they continue to back their cookies for the Amish Aid, and Edna is needing help with her dinners she serves to tourists.
Against her better judgement she decides to give her friends Wilma’s twin daughters , Ella Mae and Rachel, know as the bickering twins, a chance to help her.
Surprise, there is also a chance the twins might end up with at least one of Edna’s sons. Is there romance in the air? You will wonder which twin is interested in which brother? Will the mother’s influence their children, tongue in cheek, no, will maybe push them in the right direction.
There are some really cute moments in this story, and some shake your head times, and it did take a while to know whom was interested in whom.
A sweet page-turner!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Kensington, and was not required to give a positive review.
Edna, Mary, Wilma, Verna meet each other at Edna’s house to chat and bake cookies to sell at Yoder’s Store in Shipshewana,
to help Amish Aid.
Wilma has 2 twin daughters, Rachel and Ella Mae, and she likes matchmaking to see one day her daughters with husband and family.
“Sometimes it just took getting to know a person – to really know a person – to uncover the good qualities that God graced every creature with.”
Very nice book, I recommend it!
Sarah another wonderful story about relationships and true love. I have to laugh because I remember thinking my mother knew nothing about what I would like in a relationship and constantly hooked me up with sons of her friends. Well, as we all find out as we get older mama’s know best.
This story about Rachael, Jeremiah, Jonas and Ella Mae is so typical. The twin girls are drawn to the men that they think is best for them but their mothers, especially the sons mother, makes sure that she does everything to match them up with the ones they don’t like. Edna knows that each son has a unique gift and personality and after working with the girls for several weeks she knows who will fit with whom. Funny as she sets up the different scenarios for the couples to be together and how they feel about it all. The girls mother knows she wants her girls to be married to Edna’s boys but doesn’t know how to achieve this except to have her girls work for Edna’s company.
This book will bring you laughter, tears and other emotions that are part of reading a great book. It is a great summer, winter, spring or fall read.
I received this book through NetGalley in order to read and review.