Operation Bonnet edition by Kimberly Stuart Romance eBooks
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Twenty-year-old Nellie Monroe has a perfect college GPA, a job that’s beneath her, and a restless brilliance that makes her a bit of an odd duck. Oh, and she wants to be a private investigator, even though her tiny Ohio hometown offers no hope of clients.
Until she meets Amos Shetler, a refugee from the local Amish community who’s carrying a torch for the girl he left behind. So Nellie straps on her bonnet and goes undercover to get the dish. Literally, since she’s talked her way into Amish cooking lessons.
But though she’s brainy, Nellie is clueless when it comes to real life and real relationships. In short order she has alienated her best friend and angered her college professor—and appears to have botched her case. Will the boy still get the girl? Can Nellie save her career in criminal science? And more importantly, will she ever learn how to make a decent piecrust?
Operation Bonnet edition by Kimberly Stuart Romance eBooks
This was a tough one to get through. I did enjoy some parts of this book. When the author was telling of Nona and her slow descent I found it to be touching and well thought out. Unfortunately that was not the meat of the story, and so I found the book lacking overall.Nellie was annoying, egotistical, and not anywhere near as smart as she thought herself. As stated in my review title, I kept going back to see if it had been tagged a YA book. This was because of the overall lack of maturity this 20 year old "PI wannabe" displayed. She acted more like a 12 year old practicing to be Encyclopedia Brown while sending away for her decoder rings and giant magnifying glass. Other than Nona and maybe Matt the other characters were flat and mostly unnecessary. The whole Misti Pitz stuff made no sense---the same age as immature Nellie and she is married, had umpteen different "hostess careers," and is now pregnant. While Nellie still can't pick up her clothes from the floor and goes around standing on her head?
I enjoyed reading Trixie Belden when I was a kid (and in fact have a collection I told my son will be his "inheritance" someday) but to call this story a mystery is to insult Trixie, Nancy Drew, and Encyclopedia Brown. To sum up, this was not a mystery, it was a YA story about choices made and "growing up." The author would have been better served with a less annoying and more believable heroine and stuck to her growing up, "falling in love," and dealing with her Nona. The Amish "mystery" brought the whole project down.
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Operation Bonnet edition by Kimberly Stuart Romance eBooks Reviews
Stuart, Kimberly
Fiction
Nellie Augusta Lourdes Monroe doesn't have it easy. Yes, she's the privileged daughter of the wealthiest man in Casper, but as the (none-too-modestly self-acknowledged) town luminary and the bearer of a bright red afro, not to mention a few personality quirks, she doesn't fit in very well in a town not noted for its tolerance. Nellie's happy to be different, though, and longs only to fulfill her lifelong goal that of becoming a private investigator. Not much of note happens in Casper, though, and Nellie dreams of living in a crime-ridden community like nearby Cleveland. For the time being, however, she's tied to Casper by her need to shelter her grandmother, Nona, who is daily showing worsening signs of dementia. Life and the lack of cases is made more bearable, though, by the companionship of her best friend and fellow odd-ball, Matt. Nellie is thrilled, of course, when she is finally presented with the chance to test out her investigative skills. Amos, a former Amish boy, begs her to "infiltrate" the Amish community and spy on his former love, Katie, and the man he believes she is planning to marry. Jumping at the chance to prove herself, Nellie resorts to a few dishonest tricks to worm her way into the community and seek her way into its heart. Through her investigation, she learns a lot more about love and life and her own self than she ever expected....
When I bought this book, I was actually expected something quite different than what I got. Thinking it was just another typical Amish romance, I expected goody-two-shoes characters with minor flaws and a pleasant, heart-warming read. What I got, however, was something incredibly more wonderful. With her laugh-out-loud internal dialogue and snappy comebacks, her hilarious world-view and take on life and her overall personality, Nellie charmed her quirky way quickly into my heart and had me hanging on to her every word and sitting on the edge of my seat, wondering what she was going to say next. Balanced by her Nona's reminders of God's love and mercy and grace, which do provide that "heart-warming" quality that I expected, Nellie's story is the perfect combination of humor and grace. I absolutely loved it and can easily give it five stars!
My favorite quotes
"Sometimes you can't take the thirteen-year-old out of a girl, genius or not.
"Never try to run the world. Only a God of bottomless grace can pull off a feat like that."
A few years ago I became tired of the deluge of Amish fiction, and now it takes something with an extremely unique perspective to get me to pick up an Amish-related book. Operation Bonnet certainly fits the bill of "unique", but I didn't realize just how off-the-wall it would be!
Nellie is eccentric, to say the least, and I have to admire the creativity of the mind that dreamed her up! She is just totally off-the-wall, with sarcastic and snarky comments aplenty. I appreciate good sarcasm, but some of hers was too close to crude (unkind, not dirty) for my taste.... still, at other times I was quite humored by her take on things. At 20 years old Nellie is still somewhat immature, causing her to make some less-than-great choices (especially in her detective work), but I do have to say that I really admired how well she handled the difficulties in her personal life of caring for her aging grandmother.
I really, really liked Amos and what he brought to the story. He is funny without even intending to be, with his misuses of pop-culture references and a somewhat stiff (but humorous) way of speaking. The contrast between him and Nellie is great, resulting in some very amusing conversations. But putting the humor aside, I also really appreciated the unique perspective Amos has on things that are commonplace to the English (non-Amish people, like you and me). After one of Nellie's flippant sarcastic remarks, Amos easily replies "Do not be ill-tempered." I was really struck by how common it is for people to be "ill-tempered", sometimes without even realizing it. It certainly made me think about how I might come across to others.
It wasn't until I was a third, or maybe even closer to half-way through, that I really started to get into the story and plot. Nellie's personality was just so loud (and jarring, dare I say?) that it took me a while to become accustomed to her....but once I did, I ended up enjoying the story. The diversity between Nellie and the Amish is huge, and for me it served as a great reminder to try looking at things in my life from a different perspective. Overall I did enjoy the book, and I would certainly recommend it if you're looking for something different from your normal genre.
This was a tough one to get through. I did enjoy some parts of this book. When the author was telling of Nona and her slow descent I found it to be touching and well thought out. Unfortunately that was not the meat of the story, and so I found the book lacking overall.
Nellie was annoying, egotistical, and not anywhere near as smart as she thought herself. As stated in my review title, I kept going back to see if it had been tagged a YA book. This was because of the overall lack of maturity this 20 year old "PI wannabe" displayed. She acted more like a 12 year old practicing to be Encyclopedia Brown while sending away for her decoder rings and giant magnifying glass. Other than Nona and maybe Matt the other characters were flat and mostly unnecessary. The whole Misti Pitz stuff made no sense---the same age as immature Nellie and she is married, had umpteen different "hostess careers," and is now pregnant. While Nellie still can't pick up her clothes from the floor and goes around standing on her head?
I enjoyed reading Trixie Belden when I was a kid (and in fact have a collection I told my son will be his "inheritance" someday) but to call this story a mystery is to insult Trixie, Nancy Drew, and Encyclopedia Brown. To sum up, this was not a mystery, it was a YA story about choices made and "growing up." The author would have been better served with a less annoying and more believable heroine and stuck to her growing up, "falling in love," and dealing with her Nona. The Amish "mystery" brought the whole project down.
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