The Forgiving Quilt

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The Forgiving Quilt by Lenora Worth is the second book in The Shadow Lake series. I found The Forgiving Quilt easy to read thanks to Lenora Worth’s writing style. It is casual and friendly. The story moves along at a gentle pace. I enjoyed getting to know Eliza King and Levi Lapp as well as their families. The Forgiving Quilt is a story about forgiveness and letting go of past hurts. It is hard to move forward with your life if you are holding onto bitterness regarding a past incident. I like that Eliza’s mother had Eliza make a forgiveness quilt. It helped Eliza work through her past hurts and find a way to forgive. I wish Eliza had not been so stubborn. I did find it a touch aggravating after a while. There is a great deal of repetition in this book. The same details do not need to be repeated over and over (I got it the first time). I am glad that we get to catch up with Abigail and Jonah from The Memory Quilt. I enjoyed the animals in the story especially Levi’s horse, Rudolph. There are pearls of wisdom sprinkled throughout the story. One of my favorites is, “Forgiveness was such a beautiful thing.” There is an excerpt from the Christmas Quilt which is Colette King’s story. The Forgiving Quilt is a clean Amish romance which provides a lovely escape from real life. The Forgiving Quilt is a sweet tale with a horrible fall, a hired helper, creating a quilt, finding forgiveness, and a second chance romance.

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This is the second book in this series, and yes, they can be read alone, we do have recurring characters. This is Levi and Eliza's story, life long friends, but when something happens and Levi leaves, now there is need of forgiveness. When the story begins, Levi has returned to his Shadow Lake community upon the death of his dad, can he go home again? This story does deal with forgiveness, but it also has a lot of compassion, and deals with health issues, along with relationships, and then how our own minds perceive things! I loved how Elsa's mom talks her daughter into making a forgiveness quilt, and thus we have the title of this read, but also maybe a path to help these two friends. We could all take lessons from this Amish community and how they rally around those in need. I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Kensington, and was not required to give a positive review.