Celebrate Lit Review Blast: Home on Huckleberry Hill by Jennifer Beckstrand

The Story: 
Huckleberry Hill, Wisconsin’s irrepressible eighty-something matchmakers Anna and Felty Helmuth are at it again. And this time they’re willing to rough it to get the job done . . .

Mary Anne Neuenschwander knows she should be content with what Gotte has given her. She has a comfortable house, a fruitful farm, and a good, steady husband. But after nearly six years of marriage, she still longs for a baby. Yet her husband, Jethro, seems to care more about fishing than about his wife. Unable to bear Jethro’s indifference, Mary Anne moves into a tent in the woods where he won’t have to be bothered. But when her mammi and dawdi find out what she’s done, they’ll stop at nothing—including a little camping trip of their own—to help save their granddaughter’s marriage . . . Jethro’s greatest blessing is his beloved wife, Mary Anne. Nothing else in his life has turned out anywhere near the way he expected. Rather than burden Mary Anne with his disappointment, he shields her by spending less and less time at home and more time on the river. But when he finds that she’s moved out, he’s shocked. What will people think? What is Mary Anne thinking? And what clever plans are her grandparents hatching?...

Meet the author: 
Jennifer Beckstrand is the two-time RITA-nominated, #1 Amazon bestselling Amish romance author of The Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill series, The Honeybee Sisters series, and The Petersheim Brothers series for Kensington Books. Huckleberry Summer and Home on Huckleberry Hill were both nominated for the coveted RITA® Award from Romance Writers of America. Jennifer has always been drawn to the strong faith and the enduring family ties of the Plain people and loves writing about the antics of Anna and Felty Helmuth, the Honeybee sisters’ aendi Bitsy, and Alfie and Benji Petersheim. Jennifer has written twenty-two Amish romances, a historical Western, and the nonfiction book, Big Ideas. Jennifer is represented by Nicole Resciniti of the Seymour Agency. She and her husband have been married for thirty- five years, and she has six children and eight adorable grandchildren, whom she spoils rotten. 

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My Thoughts:

I need to start by saying that Amish fiction is a genre I don’t read a lot of but I enjoy it every time I pick up a Plain book. I just adore Suzanne Woods Fisher and Sarah Price, so I thought I’d give a new author a try! That said, I’m not sure how I felt about this book. On one hand, I love the hilarious Mammi and Dawdi, Anna and Felty, but on the other hand almost all the other characters in this book seemed mean! I even thought the main couple Mary Anne and Jethro were childish and spiteful towards each other. Maybe it’s this quarantine and the fact that I want to be reminded of the good in people and not the negative aspects of humanity, especially when trying to escape in a book, but I wasn't invested in their story. Home on Huckleberry Hill certainly does give an interesting peek into the Amish world, which I also liked, but I couldn’t connect with the hero and heroine. I like this author’s humor, so I’ll definitely take a gander at the 8 previous books of the series to see what they’re like!

~ My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars~

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