Mount Hope by Sarah Price is an Amish retelling of
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. We follow Fanny Price, a young Amish girl who is
sent away from her poor family to live with her well off relatives in another
Amish settlement.
I gave this book 4.5 out of 5 stars. This was a wonderful
Mansfield Park retelling. As before, I was impressed with Price’s writing
style; the comfort and ease of reading her work. I loved how well the story
translated to the Amish setting. Furthermore, the faith element fit so well and
rang a cord of truth whenever present. It was also really nice to see how she
developed the characters and filled out the end of the book where Jane Austen
rushed it. Not once did I feel like the events were forced into the setting or
out of place in it. This was everything I wanted from a retelling.
After reading this book I am eager to get to the other books
in Price’s Amish Classics series.
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