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    The Longing: A Novel
    The Longing: A Novel
    The Longing: A Novel
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    The Longing: A Novel

    Written by Beverly Lewis

    Narrated by Aimee Lilly

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    After tragedy strikes, a women strives to recover and spread kindness while her husband is on a military deployment as a chaplain.  Book 3 in the Courtship of Nellie Fisher series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateOct 13, 2008
    ISBN9781608142927
    The Longing: A Novel
    Author

    Beverly Lewis

    Beverly Lewis (beverlylewis.com), born in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, has more than 19 million books in print. Her stories have been published in 12 languages and have regularly appeared on numerous bestseller lists, including the New York Times and USA Today. Beverly and her husband, David, live in Colorado, where they enjoy hiking, biking, making music, and spending time with their family.

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    • 4/5
      Ach! I wanted to hear much more. You get into the characters and just when everything finally falls into place, it's over. The only negative thing I have is regarding the narrator or the writer and the fact that the conversation switches so quickly, but yet the voice doesn't, that I have a hard time catching up with where in the story we're at suddenly.
    • 5/5
      What a heart warming 3 book series of God’s love and continual patience along with forgiveness!
    • 5/5
      This has been the most delightful story. Again, as always so well written and read. The plan of salvation and thr work of the Holu Spirit is so well shown in their lives.
    • 5/5
      I enjoy these sweet Christian books to relax and rest or fall asleep while listening. There is such peace that I hope anyone that gets tense or can't sleep finds these books.
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars (rating shown may vary depending on whether site allows half star ratings).I would say this was my favorite of the three books in the trilogy. I did not realize until I read the author's note at the end that she was attempting to fictionally document the church split that occurred in the 1960s. I do agree with another reviewer that the epilogue seemed to have to wrap up many plot lines. I do think that characters that appeared in this series were in a previous series (Rosanna and Elias King were mentioned by another reviewer for one of the previous books in the series as the reason she read that book was wanting to know what happened with Rosanna and Elias.) It is possible that characters from this series will be featured in a different set of books as well with the epilogue expanded on in that series.SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW--READ ON AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION:Another reviewer complained that all people seemed to care about was converting others or bringing them into the New Order. I can understand that--when your eyes are first opened and you first start learning things, you do desire to tell others about it and you want them to share in it with you. I did suspect all along that Caleb and Nellie Mae would end up together. It's kind of the way these books go. Lewis did a respectable job of trying to introduce a "love triangle" of sorts by bringing Christian Yoder into the picture. (I suspect Rhoda and Christian may get together in another series--but who knows.)
    • 3/5
      In the third and final novel the courtship of Nellie Mae comes to a conclusion. It was repetitive and things didn't get really interesting until the last third or so of the book and then, in the epilogue, things wrapped up a little too neatly, it seemed. Nellie Mae chose a husband and gave up her bake shop, preferring to bake for her husband only. Why couldn't she have kept it? People loved her baked good and it would have brought in a little extra money. The thing that bothered me the most during this series was Caleb's inability to form his own opinions. In the first two books he refused to consider any other point of view than the Old Order - his father's religion. Then in the third book when his father turned to the New Order, Caleb in time also followed his father. I can't help but wonder if Caleb ever had a mind of his own.
    • 5/5
      This was my favorite book in the whole series! Caleb is reunited with his estranged family due to a tragic accident affecting his father which results in a surprising outcome. We also see Rhoda's life as she fully embraces the world. Will she find the happiness she is so desperately searching for or will she realize that she had that happiness in the simple life she once lived? And Nellie Mae finally finds love in the end, but with who? We also finally get to see some closure for Rosanna and Elias King. I really enjoyed reading this book. Beverly Lewis weaves a beautiful story in this whole series. If you haven't read any of the books in this series I suggest you do!