A Picture of Love

The Amish Inn Novels, Book 1

By: Beth Wiseman

Narrated by: Lauren Berst

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

After facing heartbreak in their previous relationships, both Naomi and Amos vowed never to love again. In this first installment of The Amish Inn series from best-selling novelist Beth Wiseman, true love takes root in the deepest of wounds.

Sweet Naomi Byler cooks meals for the guests at The Peony Inn, where Amish sisters and owners of the inn Esther and Lizzie love her like a granddaughter. She’s as happy there as a young woman can be, considering that her fiancé, Thomas, has left her to court someone else. She knows she’ll get over the love of her life in due time, but she is beginning to assume marriage will never be a part of her future.

Amos Lantz and his mother are guests at the inn, visiting town for a cousin’s wedding. Attending a wedding is the last thing Amos wants to do since his own fiancée, Sarah, died tragically just a year ago.

Naomi and Amos understand each other’s grief and quickly become friends when they discover their mutual love of painting. As the two begin to paint through their sadness together, Esther and Lizzie play matchmaker — a risky move with the potential to backfire. And when Thomas makes an unexpected return intending to win Naomi back, she realizes she no longer knows her own heart.

• Sweet, uplifting Amish romance
• The first installment of The Amish Inn Novels — Book 1: A Picture of Love; Book 2: An Unlikely Match; Book 3: A Season of Change
• Book length: 85,000 words

©2020 Beth Wiseman (P)2020 Zondervan

GREAT STORYLINE

clean and wholesome easy listening likeable characters characters in interact well and show different characteristics in people and life all around good story shows love hate the whole gambit of feelings. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS LISTENING!

A Picture of Love

A bit different from Beth Wisemen Series books and somewhat difficult to follow all the characters. Did finish.

Narration is always good with Lauren Berst. I read one of the Reviews and said the speed was too fast. There is a speed button on the phone that fixes this, I had to set it to the next slower speed of my own.
Marilyn

awesome book

I enjoy reading this everyone should read it. I did not want to put this book down

sweet story of love

This was a sweet story of love and mischief. I love learning about the Amish lifestyle. Clean living and clean love.

Adorable!

At first I wasn’t thrilled with the elderly characters, but by the middle of the book I loved them! Nice love story.

A picture of love 💗

A picture of love is a heart warning Amish story.
The author and narrator well done.

Enjoyable

A Picture of Love is book 1 in the Amish Inn series. It is a new series so this is the only book that has released thus far. Although this is an Amish story, I gotta say, this is the most un-Amish Amish book I have read so far. I think they are Amish in name only. There were so many things that would never be allowed in a true Amish community and there was a serious lack of community. Everything from verbiage used to the way characters treated each other to an unmarried man and woman spending time alone together in each other's bedrooms...it all felt very unnatural for their supposed lifestyle. All that being said, it was a lovely story and I enjoyed it greatly.

There were several main characters in this book. The first two were the widowed sisters in their 70s who owned the Peony Inn, the home they grew up in and returned to after they were widowed and had no children or other family. Then there was Naomi, an unmarried young woman who lived on site at the Peony Inn and was employed by the sisters, but also like a granddaughter to them. Next was Amos, the young man from Ohio who came to stay at the Inn with his mother during a trip to the community for a wedding. A strong secondary character was Gus, the crotchety old man who lived in a house on the sisters' property.

This book started out a tad slow and I was starting to second guess my decision but it picked up and maintained a great pace throughout the rest of the book. There were a few storylines woven together and it was all done seamlessly.

The narration was good. I enjoyed the narrator. I recommend this as an audiobook.

Excellent Book

This was yet another great book by Beth Wiseman! I love how her writing engages you throughout the entire story.

Reading is way too fast

I love Amish stories, but this one was a put off as it is been read way to fast, very hard to keep up with. I am disappointed I wasted my credit.

Could not finish

The pronunciation of the German words was so bad that I had to stop listening in the second chapter. It was painful. I can't speak to the story, as I didn't finish it. It wasn't interesting enough to override the terrible narration. My overall impression of the first two chapters was that it sounded like something that was written and performed by 5th graders.