Sarah Price delivers a delightful retelling of a beloved classic, featuring a young Amish woman who turns to faith as her guide even in the darkest times . . . Sadie Whitaker is determined to be a good daughter, but her stepmother, Rachel, has made no secret of her overwhelming jealousy—or her desire to get Sadie out of her life. Rachel’s latest plot involves marrying Sadie off to a widower in … Sadie off to a widower in need of a mother for his unruly children—and she has convinced Sadie’s beloved father to agree.
Left with no choice, Sadie flees her small Amish hometown of Echo Creek. Planning to hide in a nearby forest, she stumbles across a house that belongs to the seven Glick brothers. All outcasts from the Old Order community of Echo Creek, they generously agree to let her stay—and for the first time in ages, Sadie feels safe and needed, keeping house for them as any good Amish woman would do. Until, that is, the Glicks’ handsome cousin comes to visit. For though he awakens her heart’s desire, she can’t risk revealing her true identity, until love and faith give her the courage to take a chance on happiness . . .
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I enjoyed this book very much. Light reading.
Love the Amish people!!
A very cute retelling.
I enjoy reading books about the Amish.
I enjoyed ltspercial Based on snowwhite an Amish fairytale
A good storyline. A little to kitschy, to much of the Disney version of Snow White storytelling. Enjoyable, predictable read.
What a wonderful author. This story was inspirational. Through trials in life God never leaves us but works with us and through us for His good.
I like to read about Amish characters. This one did not disappoint.
I’ve very much enjoyed Belle, Ella and Sadie. The lessons in each are so important. True beauty is what lies within ones heart. No matter what a persons outward appearance is, it’s always important to seek their inner heart to know their true character. Sadie, like Snow White, dealt with a step mother, who while beautiful on the outside, was filled with vanity and jealousy on the inside. In faith, we should always stay away from jealousy and vanity, and I think that’s one reason I am so drawn to reading of the Amish faith. As a Christian, I hope that I too live my life with the same values as well. I look forward to reading many more books written by Sarah Price.
Reading this Amish retelling of the fairy tale of Snow White reminded me of why I fell in love with fairy tales as a child. I enjoyed this one just as much as the original because it’s a refreshingly new and heartwarming story with Plain characters who shelter Sadie from her jealous stepmother and the father who has fallen under her spell. I read a complimentary copy of this book provided by Kensington Christian Books through NetGalley and all opinions expressed in my voluntary review are completely my own.
Sadie: An Amish Retelling of Snow White by Sarah Price is the third book in the An Amish Fairytale series.
The story starts in the prologue showing the love and devotion of Sarah and Jacob Whitaker and how their story started in Echo Creek as a young married couple expecting their first child – Sadie.
As the book starts we find that Sarah died, years later Jacob married a younger woman – Rachel, and Sadie is trying to her best to be the good daughter having accepted Rachel into her life. However, there seems to be no pleasing her stepmother. After her many failed attempts to bear a child herself, Rachel’s jealousy and dislike for her stepdaughter magnifies. She’s determined to get Sadie out of the house and her life by any means possible it seems. She tried to wed her off to a quite older widow, John Rabor, who has a slew of kids. She even uses apples in her cooking not once but twice knowing full well Sadie is deathly allergic.
When it seems that Rachel has turned her Dad against her, Sadie feels she has no other choice but to leave home, Echo Creek and everything she holds dear including Frederick, a young Amish man she has become quite fond on. In her haste to get away and having no plans made, she wonders where she will go or what she will do when she stumbles onto a little cottage deep in the woods. It’s the home to seven “little” men, the Glick brothers, who have taken to the woods after being outcast from the Old Order community because of how different they were. They each have very similar characteristics of the seven dwarfs in the old fairy tale. They welcome Sadie into their home and their lives. The fact that she was a marvelous cook didn’t hurt either.
Sadie finds out that the Glick brothers are cousins to her Frederick when he shows up with their much needed supplies. Frederick tells her he is going to let her Dad know she is ok and try to smooth over their differences with some frank talk.
The author weaves her magic to bring an old fairytale to new live with an Amish retelling. There are all the elements of the original story – stepmother, mistreated stepdaughter, seven little men (one of the problems faced in the Amish community), the poison apple (be it juice mixed in a dish for flavor), a prince of a guy to save the poorly mistreated girl (Frederick) and a happily ever after. She does it in a way that keeps you entertained wondering along the way how is she going to get it all worked into the story, but she it does ever so smoothly.
You know that if true to the story that it’s going to be a happily ever after ending, but you still turn the pages to the very last one to see how it’s going to work out – how the author does it. Although part of series, this book can definitely be read as a standalone. It was my first in the series, but it won’t be my last. I recommend it to anyone that loves an amazing story, an Amish story that shows many of the beliefs and traditions in their faith, and watching the happily ever after play itself out.
SADIE. by Sarah Price.
An.Amish Retelling of Snow White. Having read her other ones,from fairytells, was looking forward to another great read. This again was a delightful read, yet filled with mystery, of why her step mother disliked her so. What is a young, kind hearted girl to do when her father agrees with his new wife. The story to find 7 men rejected by their Old Order faith, wanting her to stay. Now she feels safe and wanted, our hearts go out to her. All the classic features are given in this story also. The wood cutter, conversing with animals. A book as well as her other fairytale stories are ones to reread. Given ARC by Net Galley and Kensington books for my voluntary review and my honest opinion.
This is the third book in this series that I have read, and loved that there are some recurring characters, but each story can and does stand alone.
I kept wondering while I was reading this and was almost three fourths through when the dwarfs made their appearance, and loved how they were written in.
We all know the original Snow White, but this is the same, but so different with the Amish twist.
Living their faith, really comes into play here with the forgiveness, ultimate, and yet a sin is a sin.
This one was hard to put down once I began, and the pages were quickly flying.
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Kensington, and was not required to give a positive review.
I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I enjoy reading books by Sarah Price and this is definitely a unique spin on an old fairytale. I like the way she tied all of the characters into the same story – it was kind of like watching Shrek and having all of the characters making cameo appearances.
Fairytales all seem to have such a dark undertone and I found myself trying to hurry through the book. I dreaded getting to the part where Rachel would do something to hurt Sadie – my fault for only liking happy stories (with zero angst). I really like how the story was summed up at the end.