This is such a sweet, tender, warm-hearted story.. While the an Amish adoption plot has been done before, the characters felt original and Irvin writes her characters with such tender compassion that it truly captivates the reader. A really lovely story of loss, sacrifice, redemption and love. I simply loved it.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Thanks to #NetGalley and Zondervan for the ARC.

Could Not Put It Down

Before I went to bed, I told myself I would only read one chapter. That plan went out the window the minute I began reading. The story captured me immediately and I could not put it down until I got to the very end. It was just that good.

Maisy and Joshua stole my heart right from the start and had me on an emotional roller coaster. There was so much going on with them as they worked at dealing with their situations. However, that served to draw them together as friends and kindred spirits. While not everyone was crazy about their friendship, it developed into a special bond where they could share with each other honestly and without judgment. Watching Maisy and Joshua grow in their relationship with each other and in their faith in God was absolutely beautiful, touching and inspiring.

Maisy and Joshua's story is one of love, faith, overcoming, new beginnings and hope. It is also about true repentance, accepting God's forgiveness, and seeking God's will. It also drives home the message that "we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God," and that God is the only one who can judge and forgive and whose love is endless.

All of these elements are what make Every Good Gift a truly inspiring and touching story that will stay with you long after you finish reading it.

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

This is the third book in this series, and I have read the others, and equally good, but this can be read alone!

Be warned this is a page turner, and brings so many emotions, and forgiving yourself.

Good reminder of a "sin is a sin", and the plank in the eye, but living with the visible sin is hard for Maisy, and she makes decisions that change her life forever. Good ones? The answers unfold as you turn the page, and I was quickly turning for answers.

There is so much love and compassion here, along with a few obstacles, but we are with people who live their faith, mostly!

There is also a young man who is struggling with his faith, but the author places him at the right place at the right time, and we are with him as he has to decide what he is going to do!

This is a wonderful book, and now I want more! Thank you Kelly Irvin!

I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Zondervan, and was not required to give a positive review.

Any story that talks about adoption or foster care usually grips me pretty quickly and this book was no exception. I enjoyed the wealth of wisdom from the characters as well despite a difficult topic


Thanks so much to netgalley and the publisher for the arc. The opinions are my own.

This book was really different and I loved it. It has a lot of twists on the usual Amis books. I have come to expect this from Kelly Irvin and I love it. I recommend. I was provided a copy by Netgalley but the opinions are mine.

Living in Missouri and close to Jamesport makes this book more personal. I try to visit the area at least once year. I enjoy visiting with the Amish community. They are friendly and serve their community well. The story line with Every Good Gift reflects taking responsibility for choices. Maise was a young girl in the Jamesport area who wanted to experience life before baptism. That is what she exactly got. A new life growing inside her with a Englisher. Maise had no intention of leaving her Amish faith but she did not want her family to suffer from the choices she had made. After she confessed to her family, she runs away to her cousin's family in Haven, Kansas.

Maise's journey is actually a journey of faith and maturity. She loves her baby but she knows her actions has changed many lives. She comes to grip with that with the help of her cousin and her family and their hired help Joshua Lapp. I don't want to give to much away because the journey Maise takes is worth taking the journey with. How she finds redemption with her baby, her closest relationships and with Joshua who is going on a journey himself. We all deal with self-worth and Maise finds it in faith. You find yourself wanting the story line to go a different way but part of redemption is sacrifice. Seeing the value of sacrifice in the life of a baby is precious and the hope that it continues to bring is a lesson we all need.

A special thank you to Zondervan Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

Author Kelly Irvin dives right in with this story. Please know ahead of time that this will deal with unexpected pregnancy and choices that come with that. (I don’t want to give away any spoilers). Just understand it’s a tough subject though handled carefully and honestly, and could come with triggers for those who have been in this situation.

This story with these characters kept my attention from the first word. While I thought it might be a light, enjoyable read it wasn’t. It was extremely enthralling but I don’t know if I would say enjoyable. Irvin didn’t mess around with this one. Yet there were moments of lightness and even humor, keeping it from being overly heavy.

Full of every emotion imaginable, as well as forgiveness, acceptance, and love, I highly recommend it.
I received a complimentary copy of this book but was not required to leave a review.

If the measure of a good book is how many tissues the reader goes through while reading it, Every Good Gift is a stellar offering! I wept often at Maisy's story, and Joshua's story, and Vicki & Isaac's story. All of these, woven together, made for a book I had trouble putting down to do anything else.

Maisy Glick finished her rumspringa months ago, but it isn't finished with her. When morning sickness rears its ugly head, the reality of her situation hits full force. She won't leave her Amish faith so she can't marry her English boyfriend, who is off to college and wants nothing to do with parenthood. She knows that as an unwed mother in her community, she will be an example to young girls of how not to act, and she knows she will likely be isolated until her baby is born. She knows she messed up badly and she knows her parents and siblings will endure scandal because of her so she packs her belongings and flees to her cousin, Ruth's, home in Haven, Kansas.

When Joshua Lapp finds a bedraggled Amish girl sitting on a bench at the train station, he thinks nothing of asking where she is headed. When she says the name of his boss, he knows he can't leave her on the train platform and offers to share his driver with her. As Maisy begins to make her way, the obstacles she has to overcome are made easier by Joshua's friendship. He spends time with her when no other Amish can or will. He's not been baptized, so he doesn't have to obey the bishop's edict. As Maisy makes one of the hardest decisions of her life, can he make her see that he sees her, not her sin, and that "all have sinned and fall short" as the Scriptures say?

I cannot say enough about how emotional this book is. Maisy makes a mistake that, in the English world, is commonplace but in the Amish world, is only redeemable by marriage. She can't marry outside her faith, so she's stuck being a cautionary tale for every young girl in her district. She's also stuck being an embarrassment to her parents, so running away to a district where she's not well-known seems the better option. When she starts having feelings for Joshua, how does she know they're real and not just her giving in to her romantic fantasies? She wants so badly to do the right thing and gain the respect of those she meets, but the Amish have been warned not to associate with her, and the English don't understand the Amish ways. Navigating the two worlds is just a bit easier with Joshua's friendship but an Amish man and woman can't be friends, or can they?

So many individual stories converge in the pages of this book to make it gripping reading. Readers who love Amish romance fiction, will definitely enjoy this but I think anyone who enjoys a story with a ton of emotion will also love this book. It gets all the stars from me!

Am a huge fan of Amish romance novels and this one did not disappoint.

The Amish are big believers in public admission if sins and granting total forgiveness. It is something we need to strive for daily. I have a hard time forgetting. God doesnt hold on to our past sins. Once forgive they are gone. Oh to be like God.

I loved to story, although one that as been told many times, it was done with a new twist and the book was a light enjoyable read. Our own daughter got pregnant at 16 so I could relate to the story to a certain degree. We did not send her away and she eventually married the father (still married 25 years later).

Recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, Zondervan, for granting me an advance copy of this book in return for my honest opinions.

5 stars, Gifts of the heart

An unwed Amish girl who has a wild rumspringa with an Englisher boy who won't help her.

Out of options, she runs away.

Highly recommend.

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Maisy is on her rumspringa and gets pregnant from a English man. When she tells him he wants no part of it. When she tells her parents she decides to protect them she runs of to live with her cousin in Haven, Kansas. There she meets Joshua Lapp, a Plain man who it does not bother him that she is unwed and pregnant. He is fighting off his own demons of a brother who died in a fire. This is a beautiful story of faith and finding your way back. Very nice story with a ending I did not expect.

Thank you Zondervan Press for allowing me to read Kelly Irvin’s upcoming book, Every Good Gift. Release day is February 7, 2023.

In this third book in the Amish Blessings series, Kelly Irvin takes us on an adventure that encompasses Every emotion you could possibly think of; love, hate, embarrassment, rejection, joy, Acceptance, and forgiveness. Possibly the hardest, is the act forgiving yourself.

Kelly has the most unique way of using words. She paints pictures of the experience with just the use of her descriptions in a very unique manner.

Irvin takes Maisy, a young unwed mother in an Amish community and moves her to her cousins’ community. There she meets a quite Amish man, Joshua Lapp, who has struggles of his own. Joshua accepts her and her wrongs without bias. Together they fight to understand God’s will for their lives.

This is another 5-star read from Kelly Irvin.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Zondervan through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own, and I was not required to give a positive review.

This is the 3rd book in the series, Amish Blessing, by author, Kelly Irvin.

This book contains about every emotion you could think of – shame, grief, embarrassment, forgiveness, acceptance, love, etc. You cannot put this book down until you have read it cover to cover. It was truly one of the best Amish books I have ever read, that that has been many.

The characters and their feelings are written so well that you feel every emotion they are going through. I hope the author will give us another book in this series and have these characters in it so we can see what happens in their future.

You truly do not want to miss this book. I received a complimentary copy of this book from Zondervan and NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

This is third book in the Amish Blessings series. The Author did not disappoint when writing this beautiful story. Maisy, a young Plain girl in her Rumspringa who knows she will join the church one day but wants to experiance life before she takes the vow. Her desire to have fun crosses the line when she meets an English fella. Carelessness and temptation leaves her in a predicament that effects no only herself but her family. Running away to Kansas to her cousins she meets Joshua upon her arrival, He understands her situation and they become friends or is he another temptation. Maisy's story is very relatable to this reader and others who have given a child up for adoption. A true sacrifice of a birth mother to give a child to parents who have suffered the pain of being childless. This book was an advanced copy by the publisher and the review of this book is of my own personal opinion.

What an incredible journey Maisy and the reader go through together in Every Good Gift. Kelly Irwin's words painted such an intense picture I felt like I was right there with Maisy and Joshua, feeling shock, embarassment, anger, self disgust, fear, sadness, and finally hope and love. I am drained, but don't want their story to end. Hopefully, their story will continue by being intertwined in a future book.

Kelly Irvin's Every Good Gift is a sweet and beautiful Amish tale. I loved this third installment from the Amish Blessings series. Five stars.

I found this book to be very heartfelt and touching as Joshua and Maoist try to overcome their shortcomings and struggles as they each question God about their circumstances. As there two become friends, they realize they can openly tell each other about their pasta and feel comfortable in doing so. As they slowly begin to put their fears aside and trust each other, they realize God has a plan for both of them. Will it be enough to push them in the right direction and renew their relationship with God? I found this to be an enjoyable book and I recommend it.

All words and opinions are my own. I was given a copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher for my honest review.

One of my favorite genres is Amish Fiction and this book drew me in and kept me there till the last page. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself and one of the characters in this story needed to do that before she could go on with her life. Another character had to let go of his grief and turn back to God. I thought the story was entertaining,original,easy to read and a page turner. This is the second book in this series that I have read and the author is fast becoming one of my favorites.

Maisy Glick is a young Amish girl on her rumspringa. She dates a Englishcer and becomes pregnant with his baby. Nate Taylor has plans for his life and those plans don’t include a baby. An abortion seems an easy out for him but Maisy doesn’t agree to that so she is on her own. After confessing to her parents that she is pregnant her parents go to the Amish bishop. Wanting to save her parents from the shame and humiliation that she has caused her family to go through Maisy decides to spare them by running away to live with her cousin in Haven Kansas. Maisy is young and she considers putting her baby up for adoption. She wants her baby to be raised Amish with a mother and father. When the time comes for her child to be born will she be able to give her child away to an Amish couple?

Joshua Lapp struggles with his Amish faith. He suffered a terrible loss when he was twelve and since that time he has questioned God about why he allowed such a terrible thing to happen in his young life. Though he lives the Plain life he hasn’t been baptized or joined the Amish church. Joshua hasn’t attended church in years and being baptized isn’t part of his plans. He has spent years being mad at God for what He allowed to happen when he was just a boy . His family and the bishop want him to take his kneeling vows and join the church . Joshua doesn’t plan on ever getting married or having a family. Then he meets Maisy and finds himself drawn to her.

I recommend this book to readers of Amish Fiction and fans of Kelly Irvin. This book is part of a series but can be read as a standalone. This book is scheduled to be released on 2/7/23.

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

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Maisy is Amish and goes on her rumspringa year, she meets an English man and becomes pregnant. she can't abandon her faith, so she goes back to her community. and finds love with an Amish man