Title: Tempation
Author: Karen Ann Hopkins
publication date: June 26 2012
pages:380
Summary: Your heart misleads you. That's what my friends and family say. But I love Noah. And he loves me. We met and fell in love in the sleepy farming community of Meadowview, while we rode our horses together through the grassy fields and in those moments in each other's arms. It should be ROSE & NOAH forever, easy. But it won't be. Because he's Amish. And I'm not
Review:
Awhile back I had read a book about forbidden Amish love
that was similar to the description of this book and loved it, once I saw it on
the shelves I knew that I had to get it and try it out.
Temptation is one those books that you’ll either love or
hate. I completely adored this book. It was a full 5 stars for me but there
were some things I didn’t particularly like.
I’ll start with the things that I loved about this book:
I love when books change their point of views between
characters, I actually prefer this way because you can read about the other
persons emotions instead of just sticking to one person, so being able to read
both Rose’s and Noah’s side of the story was a good move on the authors part.
The description and emotion in all of the characters was
great! I could picture all of them easily and their emotions were true.
None of the characters lacked personality, each one was
different and creative and I especially loved the relationships between Rose
and her brothers, I personally don’t have any older siblings, but as an oldest sibling
I understand the responsibility in having to look out for my younger siblings
and even though Rose and Sam fought and picked on each other a lot. I loved how
overprotective Sam was over Rose and I wish I had an older brother that would
look out for me like that.
I did have a few problems with the book,
I felt like their love was to instant. All they did was
stare at each other for the first time and they were practically married. I don’t
really believe in love at first sight so the beginning of their relationship
was unrealistic to me.
After they met the rest of the book was just them talking
about their love for each other and their parents disapproval, the book didn’t really
have much of a plot until the end where more of the action was.
The only other
critical thought about the book was even though Rose was only 16; her character
almost seemed too childish. It just seemed like there was a huge immaturity
level between Noah and Rose, even though Noah’s Amish life style makes him more
mature than that of an 18 year old “English” boy.
But even after my critical thoughts I do recommend this book
to anyone who’s looking for a different kind of read than their used to. It’s a
tragic romance that’s doomed to fail, right?
5/5 stars
