Customer Reviews

Listen for Rachel

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This is the best book i've ever read! it's just wonderful! A perfect combination of every thing... Witchcraft, love, romance, mountain life, everything good!

I read this book in the junior high years, and from then on checked it out at least once a year from the library. Now that I am much older I am glad to find the book through amazon to purchase for my future children as a collector's item. It is the best book I have ever read, and can read it over and over again even now. I recommend it for any female that loves to read a great story of with (rated G) romance. The character loses all she has, and is place into a home of strangers. With so many obstacles against her she gains strength, a career, and romance.

When Rachel's parents die in a fire, she is sent to live in the mountains with her family. She struggles to fit in, she meets old Granny Sharp. Granny Sharp teaches her medicine and doctoring skills to help the mountain folk. With the Civil War flaring, her grandfather makes his farm take no side. Not North. Not South. The reason for his action is that part of the their family is fighting for the North and part for the South. Rachel is working on the farm tending to wounded soldiers from both sides when a young military captain by the name of Ben is found hurt outside the farmhouse. Rachel cares for him and they soon fall in love. Rachel can't marry him because she has important duties at home, and it's a mountain tradition to follow the man to his home after marriage. She can't go to Pennsylvania with him because everyone tells her she is needed where she is as a doctor. I am upset that the publisher stop printing this book. I do not have a copy but got it out from a local library. Although I would like to buy a paper back because it is much cheaper I would also buy it in hardcover if that was the only format. If you enjoyed this book, you will also like Time Enough for Drums which will be out in paper back in May.

I remember that I liked it a lot, enough for me to remember I read it and when. The reason I didn't give it five stars was because I can't remember very much and 5 stars should go to the really amazing, emotional books. But I definatly would like to read this book again if I had the chance. You won't be sorry if you read it!

Like some other people in these reviews I first read this book because it had my name in it. It turned out to be one of the best books I have ever read and am only sorry that it is out of print becauses I do not have a copy. I would recomend this book to anyone looking for romance, adventure, drama, and excitement.

I bought this book back in the second grade at the school bookfair simply because it had my name in the title. About a year ago I found it and read it. I loved it. Its got family life, friends, healing, and it strongly emphasizes the importance of love in a young girl's life. Though I am 15 and bought the book when I was 7, I still think its a wonderful story. I even read it for inspiration. I've read it numerous times, and its still an adventure every time.

Rachel Sutton is an excellent character, portraying the transition from the easy city life to hard work in the mountains. I read this book when I was about 10, shortly after I read Gone With the Wind. It was then and still is one of my favorites. Rachel is a character that many girls can relate to, just as I did back then. This book inspired me to take a different aspect of the Civil War and I believe could do the same for many others who read this fantastic book.