The Scent of Cherry Blossoms is a shorter story (about 200 pages) by Cindy Woodsmall. It tells the story of Annie, an Old Order Mennonite young woman, and Aden, a young Amish man. Annie's grandfather is a business partner with Aden's father in a diner, which allows the diner to have electricity and other things not usually allowed in an Amish business. Annie's grandfather holds this over Aden's family several times in the book to try to get his own way, especially as Aden and Annie's relationship begins to develop. Their love is seen as forbidden because they would be "unequally yoked" by marrying outside of their faith. They begin meeting secretly in the cherry orchard between Aden's house and Annie's grandfather's house, but then must stop when their relationship is discovered.
Meanwhile, Aden's twin brother Roman is struggling with inadequacy since an accident five years ago left him in a wheelchair. He selfishly doesn't want anything to change in his relationship with Aden, since Aden is a big help to him in getting around. Roman must come to terms with his relationship to God and to others.
A good easy read. It could have gone a little more in-depth in some places, and I felt it ended very suddenly, but overall very good.
You can read an excerpt of Chapter 1 here.
I received this book for free from Waterbrook in exchange for my honest review.
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