The Courtship Plan

This is a joyful book. Kathleen Fuller has again captured my heart with a different storyline - not the usual boy meets girl - they like each other- they court- they get married and the journey was perfect. i highly recommend this book if you have not had the pleasure.

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Kathleen Fuller did it again! Another heartwarming novel that shows us that God’s plan may not always be our plan.
We first meet Charity Raber in Birch Creek, in An Amish Mail Order Bride series. Charity went to Birch Creek to find a husband and she was a little desperate. She was also downright mean to the other prospective brides, especially Katherine, from “Love in Plain Sight”.
Charity decides to get a new start so she moves to Marigold. She moves next door to Priscilla and Micah, who we met in “An Amish Schoolroom”. Charity and Jesse both go on self discoveries. You can’t give your love to anyone until you love yourself.
I love how Kathleen Fuller weaves in characters from Birch Creek. I know Jesse, Charity and Monroe will pop up again in her books!!
I’m looking forward to the next installment in this series. Many thanks to the author, Zondervan and NetGalley for a complimentary copy of the book. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

READ THIS IF YOU
Like Amish fiction
Enjoy dating mayhem
Believe God is in control

This is a great start to the Amish of Merigold series. It's a fun yet heartfelt read that was a joy to read. It has wonderful characters and a great story line. Parts of this book will have you laughing out loud, I loved it and highly recommend this book.
I received a complimentary copy from Zondervan Fiction via NetGalley and was not required to write a review. All opinions expressed are my own.

My Thoughts: Loved It!

Kathleen Fuller has such a way with her story telling that immediately draws you in. She also has characters that you connect with right from the start. You either love them, dislike them or go on a love/dislike roller coaster ride with how you feel about them. Such was the case with The Courtship Plan.

When I first met Charity Raber, she had me riding the roller coaster of like and dislike. However, her quirkiness and sincerity pulled me over to the like side, as did her courtship plan. When she began putting her plan in motion I found myself laughing out loud more than once. Charity was quite sure her plan was foolproof, but Jesse Bontrager thought otherwise. It was a good thing that he was there to save her from herself and her plan. And that's when things got even more interesting and drew me deeper into Charity and Jesse's story.

I absolutely loved this story! It made me laugh and it made me cry. It also had an element that touched me deeply because of how applicable it is to every day life. It has to do with taking responsibility, making things right no matter how much time has passed and forgiveness. That along with the romance, humor, great characters and the twists and turns of Charity and Jesse's journey made this amazing story a definite must read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a complimentary copy of this book. All comments and opinions are strictly my own.

Just fell in love with the characters in this story. Charity and Jesse are both fun characters

The things Charity did to get Jesse to court her were just hysterical. I loved her library research!

I so wanted them to just give it up already and fall in love!

I am a sucker for happy endings and was so upset when it didn't look like thing we're going to work out.

A truly good read

Highly recommend

I thoroughly enjoyed this story and couldn't put it down. I had to see what came next!

Charity is awkward and desperate. Jesse is a confirmed bachelor who pulled a dirty trick. They part ways and I thought it was over. That each would find another. But fate, or was it God, brought them back together and I really liked how it happened.

Sometimes I felt bad for each of the characters. Sometimes I wanted to shake them. A good story pulls you in and makes you feel emotions. This one did just that as I laughed, sighed, and even shed a tear or two. If you enjoy Amish fiction I highly recommend this one. Author Kathleen Fuller never disappoints.

I received a complimentary copy of this book but was not required to leave a review.

Kathleen Fuller's The Courtship Plan was a wonderfully sweet and delightful Amish tale. I loved it and am giving five stars.

Following Charity's bumbling machinations to "get a man and keep him" are totally hilarious! I laughed and laughed, so I'm rather sold on this clean, Christian romance novel. There is an Amish setting co-mingled with "The English," which adds twist and humor. Enter Jesse, who got what he deserved and more. Oh dear, I'm laughing again just thinking about it! Perhaps you can read and develop your own "courtship plan" and see what comes of it. BEWARE...Snicker, snicker.

~ Eunice C., Reviewer/Blogger ~

August 2022

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

As always I enjoy anything from this author!
This is Charity and Jesse's story and in my opinion of course the best one!
A sweet Amish read that you'll not want to put down until you've devoured this novel!
There were places that I just had to snicker at and some that will make your heart break for Charity and yes even for Jesse.
I can connect with Charity in a lot of ways. I think she tries too hard just like me at times.
I felt bad for her.
Monroe was just the sweetest thing! He knew what was what and whom he liked. He was the best!
I highly recommend this book. I was NOT required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.

This was such a delightful read and the story highly intrigued me.
Many thanks to Zondervan and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

The Courtship Plan

by Kathleen Fuller

Things aren’t going well for Charity Raber as she looks for a job and a husband in Birch Creek. She was one of many young ladies responding to an ad that said there were a lot of young Amish men in Birch Creek looking for wives. Charity is thin with bright red hair and more freckles than can be counted. Because of a difficult family background, she comes across as…odd. She is too eager, her speech is unfiltered, and she just doesn’t know how to act around her peers. She was even set up with a date as a prank by one brother fooling another. She escapes more embarrassment by moving to Marigold where she is hired as a caregiver to Shirley, a kind English woman. To her dismay, just as she is adjusting well, one of the brothers moves in next door.

Charity wants love and sets out to get a husband with the aid of library books that hold some pretty bad advice and lead Charity into some situations that are very funny. The interactions between Shirley and Charity with their neighbor Jesse are the basis of a good story that is mostly not a fairy tale romance. A fun addition is Shirley’s escape artist dog Monroe. A serious complication is Charity’s relationship with her father and stepmother.

Love and forgiveness are strong themes that move forward an interesting story. Charity is a complicated character with a complicated background. She is the underdog protagonist that you will root for, but a happy ending seems difficult to achieve.

I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Rating: 5/5

Category: Christian, Romance

Notes: #1 in the Amish of Marigold Series. This book references a prank that I had also read about in the last book of the Amish Mail-Order Bride Series, but they are really independent series. The reader will get all the information needed right in The Courtship Plan.

Publication: January 17, 2023—Zondervan

Memorable Lines:

He’d called her weird and a pest. He wasn’t the first one to throw those awful adjectives at her. That honor was reserved for her mother.

When he’d told her Shirley cared, her heart leapt. Someone cared about her. She soaked that in like a dried-up sponge sitting in a saucer of fresh water.

She replaced her kapp with a kerchief and tried to bolster her own spirits, like she always had. but she failed. She was tired, so tired of being her own cheerleader.