When the English Fall

from ShannonRose4

"That is part of the greatest danger to our souls, a pride that can come when we set ourselves apart to be servants, but then assume that our servanthood makes us better" (Page 167). What happens to Amish when the world of The English doesn't hold? As people discover that all their modern day con...

from ShannonRose4

"That is part of the greatest danger to our souls, a pride that can come when we set ourselves apart to be servants, but then assume that our servanthood makes us better" (Page 167). What happens to Amish when the world of The English doesn't hold? As people discover that all their modern day c...

from mojomomma

A friend lent me her ARC and I devoured this book. The story is told in diary entries covering the late summer and early fall. The narrator's daughter is suffering from seizures and hallucinations. Sadie has always been delicate and has a reputation for foreseeing the future. She becomes suddenly...

from voracious

Life for Jacob and his family is steady and predictable within their faithful Amish community. After a solar flare destroys the functionality of most technology, the surrounding English community begins a slow decline towards desperation and starvation. Jacob and his community initially try to pr...

from clue

"English" in the title refers to anyone who is not Amish. In this dystopian novel, a solar storm disrupts civilization in the same way it often does in novels of this genre. What is different is that our narrator is Amish, lives in an Amish farming community that unlike the English, doesn't rely ...