This tells the story of Eliza, a newly 16 Amish girl who desperately wants to experience a world apart from her quiet static district. After some convincing, she is able to work as a live-in nanny in a nearby Chicago suburb and finally try all of the things she wants to try. It's a sweet and innocent coming-of-age story that is a little bit different than the ones I normally read. 
 Pros: 
 -	I appreciated how normal the characters were. I'm so used to reading books, especially YA books, where the characters are all super smart, super good-looking, are over-flowing with talent, and usually have some sort of ~chosen-one~ special ability that sets them apart from the rest of humanity. And, as I'm sure everyone knows, constantly reading about special and unrealistic characters gets a bit exhausting. 
 -	I've found with Rumspringa stories, authors often have their characters go to extremes with their embrace of the "Fancy World." But the situations in this book were a bit more innocent. Definitely some making out and drinking, but that was about the extent of it. There were examples of the more extreme actions, but they were more on the sidelines of our main character. 
 Cons: 
 -	The writing was kind of blah and predictable. It was a lot of telling instead of showing. And I could definitely agree with some other reviews that said that the approach to the Amish culture was very academic. 
 -	This actually goes hand-in-hand with my first pro, so maybe it's not exactly a con, but I found the portrayal of teen boys in this book to be a little TOO realistic. I didn't much care for teen boys when I was a teenager, let alone now as an adult. At first, when I was reading this book, I kept thinking "Gosh, Josh is so unlikable. Why would Eliza even be into this? Why would she be considering giving up her entire world for this shallow boy who pressures her into physical stuff and is so completely... normal?" But then I remembered that he was exactly the type of cookie-cutter boy that was all the rage when I was 16. The YA books I usually read feature thoughtful romantic boys who are wise beyond their years, but those boys didn't actually exist in my high school! My school was full of Joshes. So, like I said, it was pretty realistic but so boring to read about.