First Love Book Review

I reserved this book at the library and was excited when I saw it come in.  I had gone searching for new books to read and found First Love by Beverly Lewis.  I hadn't read it and I loved the author so I put it on reserve immediately at the library so that I could check it out. 

It's the summer of 1951, and Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pretty despite struggling with chronic illness, she is used to being treated kindly by the young men of her Old Order Amish church district. Yet Maggie wishes she were more like other courting-age girls so she could live a normal, healthy life.

To make matters more complicated, Dat has recently remarried, less than a year after her mother died. And while her stepmother is kind, Rachel is much younger than Mamm, and she simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness the way Mamm did.

When tent revival meetings come to the area, Maggie is curious, and the words of the Mennonite preacher challenge her to reconsider what she knows about faith. Can she learn to trust God even when hope seems a distant dream?

I hope that you read this and you are as inspired as I was.  It is great to watch a person overcome so many physical problems that the doctors couldn't help with that affect her every day life.  Maggie is always positive and trying to do the most of her family that she can.  She is feeling like no one would want her for their spouse because she can't do the things that other wives do because she tires easily.  She is at home with her family and her father has recently remarried a short time after loosing his wife so there are a lot of things going on with the family and Maggie is being supportive of all of her family members while dealing with pain every day and having a question of what she should do to fix it.  She decides that she is going to pray and take a new medicine that is suggested by two people in her church.  You have to pick up the book to find out what happens but this story is filled with a lot of things going on and you will be amazed at the ups and downs in this book.  I hope that you check it out yourself.