Zach Reynolds is partly a former golden party boy, partly a kind-hearted, hardworking doctor with a heart for his patients.
Cassie is a former Amish, with as deeply set values which she wants to honour even outside the Amish community.
Anna and Felty are energetic Amish octogenarians who love to matchmake their grandchildren.

A recipe for disaster? No. A recipe for sweet novel touching the realistic subjects of faith, forgiveness, staying true to yourself, respect and self-control over the desires (again, a former frat pack boy and a virgin girl!) and the real, hurting question of why pain and evil exists and why God does allow it (even for the believers, at that).

This is the sixth in the series of the The Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill, but can be read as a standalone novel.

I very much enjoyed reading this novel. Sweet, smart, unpretentious and very realistic - while still telling an engaging story. But "sweet" here doesn´t mean that Ms Beckstrand is not exploring the difficult issues! Whe just does that with a warm, heartfelt touch and understanding.

Zach and Cassie are a lovely couple - him captured by a love for the first time, her trying to trust a non-believer guy once again (in hopes he will find his lost faith).
And Anna and Felty - I would just adopt them as my acting grandparents immediately! They are so cute, young at heart and wise. The same goes for Zach´s mom.

On the cons side - the novel feels prolonged. If cut down for say 50 pages, it would be wonderful. But this is not a major complaint, as the authoress really can engage you!

This was my first novel by Ms Beckstrand, but definitely not the last one!

Huckleberry Hearts book six in Jennifer Beckstrand’s The Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill series is a delight. Cassi, a formerly Amish woman, returns home from school to visit her family and her matchmaking grandparents try to get her romantically involved with her grandmother’s doctor. This cute romantic, Amish story is both funny and heart-warming. Filled with enjoyable and relatable characters and a lovely storyline, readers will thoroughly enjoy Huckleberry Hearts. Themes of family relationships, both positive and negative, and love strongly surround this novel. I would recommend this story to lovers of Amish fiction.


Series: The Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill
Genre: Amish; romance; Christian
Publisher: Zebra
Publication date: November 25, 2015
Number of pages: 352