Having grown up with Amish neighbors, I can tell you that theirs is a unique cadence and language. However, Samuel’s father and, occasionally Samuel himself, felt off to me when it came to establishing their regional accents. In my opinion, Eddie, Samuel, and Eddie’s friend Devon were all well done by Mr. It also really gave Samuel that innocent, shy persona that the author wrote him as. Tulin’s choice to make the city man, Eddie Graber, who is described as smaller in stature, the deeper voice and allowing for Samuel’s age (nineteen) to be conveyed in his softer voice despite his being a much larger man.
I love when I am surprised by a voice narrator, and, in this case, it was Mr. Will Tulin is very adept at varying his tone and modulation to indicate different characters in this audio rendition. Review: Normally I would give both a short story and audio review, but with this novel I’ve decided to combine those as most of my critique of the audio actually stems from the story itself. There’s Fred and Ginger, two cows who’d been living in a garage, a gang of sheep, and a little black pig named Benny who might be the key to life, love, money – and even a happily ever after for two castoffs. Samuel isn’t the only lost soul to serendipitously find his way to Meadow Lake Farm. With just a few hundred dollars to his name, Samuel responds to an ad for a farmhand and finds himself employed by a city guy who has strange ideas about animals, no clue how to run his small farm, and a gentle heart. But when his father learns Samuel is gay, he is whipped and shunned. Samuel Miller worked hard to fit into his Amish community despite his clubfoot.
He needs help, he needs money, but most importantly, he needs to rediscover the belief in a higher purpose that brought him here in the first place. Now Eddie risks losing the 25-acre property in Lancaster County – and all the hopes he held for it – before the project even gets off the ground. Tulin’s adept handling of the more emotional highpoints.īlurb: Eddie Graber’s dream of a sanctuary for rescued farm animals was about to come true when his partner backed out at the last minute. Series: The Men of Lancaster County: Book TwoĪt a Glance: There were so many moments in Eli Easton’s Tender Mercies that stand out when reading this novel, and I felt that most of those were done justice by Mr.
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