On a positive note - I really, really enjoyed this H. Well, I at least made it past my 30% mark! This is why I don't have much to write by way of review. I read the first sex scene and the last couple of chapters and was ready to be done. That's about it in a nutshell.īy about the halfway mark, I was skimming. Why, you ask? I just don't care enough about everyday life to want to know how other people live everyday life, even when you throw in a crazy ex or some other obstacle. Shelter Mountain was a buddy read that I couldn't pass up because of a dear friend and my curiosity to learn about this person's similarities to a character in the book.Īnd that was the best part of reading - getting to see this person's book alter-ego. I didn't read the first book, so my opinion of the series is only from book 2. Yet again, I've found another train I won't be jumping on. So I end the evening with the glow of having read a wonderful book and the all-consuming guilt of an author who made precisely zero progress on her own manuscript today.Ģ.5 stars. I couldn't stop from getting teared up over the tragedy that befalls Rick and Liz.īut I need to NOT buy the next one until I'm done with my own book, because clearly once I start I'm just done writing until I'm done reading. It's a topic I've covered a lot as a journalist, and Paige seems to go through all the classic responses.īecause we get all these characters' continuing stories, there are ups and downs for everyone. And it was good to see the issue of spousal abuse - I like that more than the term 'domestic violence,' which sounds friendlier somehow - explored with authenticity. She and her little boy come under Preacher's protection - and the relationship between them builds over time, first as she goes about trying to set up a life free of abuse and then later as she and Preacher fall in love.Īs with the first book in this series, Virgin River, I enjoyed the midwifery aspects of the story. Paige is the quintessential abused wife who accidentally winds up in Virgin River at Jack's bar while trying to escape her S.O.B. So while the story ostensibly focused on Preacher and Paige, there was a lot to the story that didn't involve them. The book weaves together all of these couples and their story lines, and it's told from a myriad of perspectives. I had to see what would happen to Mel and Jack and Preacher and Paige and their buddy Mike and poor Rick and Liz. Why? Well, for starters, I've gotten really attached to the whole damned town of Virgin River. I read this entire book in a few big gulps rather than working on the novel that is already late to New York.

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