A Season on the Wind by Suzanne Woods Fisher Book Review

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ben Zook had only two loves in his life: books and birds. In a stroke of good fortune, he'd stumbled onto a way to cobble together those two loves into a career, writing books about rare birds. He was as free as a bird--until a chase for a rare White-winged Tern takes him to the one place on earth he planned to never return: his Amish home in Stoney Ridge.

Desperate for photographs of the elusive tern, Ben hires a local field guide, Micah Weaver, and boards at Micah's farm, planning to "bag the bird" and leave Stoney Ridge before anyone recognizes him. But he neglected to plan for Micah's sister, Penny. One long-ago summer, Penny had introduced Ben to birding, even sharing with him a hidden eagle aerie. That eagle became his spark bird--the one that inspired his lifelong love.

Ben. He was Penny's spark bird. That was when she knew true love. She'd always hoped Ben would come back to Stoney Ridge. Back to his Amish roots. Back to her. The only problem? Ben has absolutely no memory of Penny.

Bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher welcomes her readers to the Amish community at Stoney Ridge in this engaging story of discovering just who the rare birds are in life.

MY BOOK REVIEW

Amish life and love stories are usually always the same except for Suzanne Wood Fischer. She makes characters you care for. She can take you right into their lives. I love her books so much. It takes place on a farm in Pennsylvania. Penny and Micah Weaver inherited their grandmother's farm.  Micah becomes known for his bird guiding. Ben Zook left the Amish Community. Penny was in love with Ben. Her heart was broken when he left. He has now returned to the farm to help her brother find a rare bird that was spotted in Stoney Ridge. Ben is now an English man.  Penny learns Ben doesn't remember the time they spent together. This pulled at my heartstring. I could not put the book down. They both are dealing with the past and don't want each other to find out. It is full of love, faith, dealing with old wounds, and healing. There are a couple of major twists in the story. I highly recommend reading "A Season on the Wind" by Suzanne Woods Fisher. It isn't a preachy religious story. 

I received a Complimentary ARC from Revell Publishing. All opinions are my honest own opinions. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I’VE BEEN WRITING as long as I can remember. I love to write. Getting published started at Westmont College, when I worked on the weekly newspaper. A decade later, while raising my four children, I free-lanced for a number of magazines: Christian Parenting Today, Marriage Partnership, Today’s Christian Women, Christian Retailing, and others.

WHILE LIVING IN HONG KONG, thanks to the very young but getting established worldwide web, I was able to continue to write for those magazines.

THEN CAME BOOKS. After repatriating, my children started to head off to college. This empty-nesting time in my life provided the opportunity to give writing a novel a try. It was just a little World War II love story, eventually published by a small royalty press, and it cracked open the door for me in a remarkable way.

THEN CAME AN AGENT. Small ponds are a great way to start. That little love story won some awards (easier to do with a small press) which caught the attention of Joyce Hart of Hartline Literary Agency. Knowing my connection to the Plain people through my grandfather, who was raised Plain, she set up a conversation with an editor at Revell Books.

AND THEN CAME A CONTRACT. The first book I wrote for Revell was non-fiction, Amish Peace for a Complicated World. It became a foundational book for me to write credibly about the Old Order Amish, to look beyond the bonnets, buggies, and beards. That book became a ECPA Book of the Year finalist.

THIRTY-SOME BOOKS LATER, I’ve written in several genres, such as historical fiction, contemporary, women’s romance, children. And I still love every minute of it.

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