Christmas at the Amish Market by Shelley Shepard Gray

 

Title:  Christmas at the Amish Market

Author:  Shelley Shepard Gray

Narrated by:  Suzie Althens

Publisher: Hallmark Publishing

Length: Approximately 7 hours and 53 minutes

Source: Review Copy from NetGalley.  Thank-you!

 Do you have a favorite shop you like to go to at Christmas time or for other times you like to give gifts?  We have a few, but Seroogy’s Chocolate shop in Green Bay is a favorite.

Christmas at the Amish market is my last Christmas audiobook of the season.  Wesley is running his family’s Amish market during the busy Christmas season as his father is having health problems.  This does not leave him with enough time to get to visit with his girlfriend, Liesl.  Liesl enlists her Aunt Jenny to help Wesley out at the Market.  Much to Wesley’s surprise, Aunt Jenny is his age.  As they start to work together, sparks start to fly.   But how can they think about romance with Liesl in the picture?  Liesl has also been helping out a widower with his young daughter and has been feeling sparks of her own. Will everyone find their happily ever after at Christmas?

 The forbidden romance trope sometimes can annoy me when I feel that people are getting hurt or lying is involved.  Christmas at the Amish Farm though played this trope perfectly.  I could tell right away that Wesley and Liesl were friends that everyone thought should be together, but they really shouldn’t be.  Everything in the story played out well as the characters made their realizations about how they felt about each other and how they would move forward.  I just have to say that Christmas Eve is a really bad day to break off a relationship with someone!

 Suzie Althens was a good narrator, and this was a delightful Amish romance Christmas story.  Now that we are into January, I am moving on from Christmas audiobooks for now!