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Saturday, April 17, 2021

The Amish Marriage Pact by Samantha Price (2021)

I was hoping that this latest story wouldn’t suffer from Price’s problem of slapping the Amish name on a LHOTP story (Little House on the Prairie), but no. Her characters used modern lingo and the boyfriend was a dog. I mean, the guy ran around with not only her sister (and got the sister pregnant!) but also her best friend. Any time he felt guilty, he’d make the other person feel badly. At least it ended well for the people who deserved it.

As far as her usual fare, it was a nice little romance. I won’t go into some of my problems with her, because I’ve expressed them before and Price hasn’t changed. Since I don’t expect her to, I take it for what it is. That said, Price left the story undercut this time. Kate was a doormat for most of it and there wasn’t really any character development for anyone. I don’t call Kate a doormat because she whines and cries all the time — she doesn’t get emotional (except for occasionally crying). I call her a doormat because she gets manipulated so often and is constantly trying to make everyone around her happy to the point that she ignores any of her negative emotions. When her boyfriend treats her badly, she wonders what she could change so he won’t be upset, rather than asking what’s really going on.