The Confession Book Review

Beverly Lewis' The Confession (The Heritage of Lancaster County) by Beverly Lewis is the second book in the Heritage of Lancaster County series.  I read the first one and have had this on my list for awhile.  I was super excited to get it through the library reserve system.  It was farther down in the stack but when I got to it, I couldn't put it down.

In this book, Katie Lapp has been shunned from her Amish order and is living with Mennonite cousins while trying to figure out her next step in life.  Most of the upheaval happened in the first book so if you haven't read it, you might want to skip this review because it is a spoiler to the first book!!  She decides that she can't delay after hearing that her birth mother is sick and dying.  She calls the operator and gets the numbers for the people with the Bennett and luckily, she reaches the correct house on the third call.  Unfortunately, she reaches her mothers husband and not her mother.  He doesn't give her mother the message and decides instead to make his own plan.  She gets on a bus a few days before Christmas to travel from Pennsylvania to New York.  When she gets to the house, she is greeted by the help and told that things are really busy because the mistresses daughter has returned.  Katie, now going by Katherine because it is the name that her mother gave her, knows that isn't turn and that is only the beginning.  Pick this one up to find out what happens because it is amazing!!

I really enjoyed this book.  I had trouble sleeping one night and I picked up this book and read it from start to finish.  I tried to put it down and get some rest but either the book was that good or I was just not getting sleep because it was done when I put it down and went to bed!  I highly recommend this book but I would start with the first in the series.  I hope that you check them out at your local library or bookstore.  If you have read this series, what did you think?  This is my second series by Beverly Lewis and I can say that I am excited to start the next one!!!  Hope you are too :)