The Newcomer Mass Market

The Newcomer Mass Market

Author: Visit Amazon's Robyn Carr Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0778314529 | Format: EPUB

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Carr returns to Thunder Point, a tiny town on the Oregon coast, revisiting the characters introduced in The Wanderer (2013). Cooper is happy he stayed in Thunder Point, and his remodeled business is doing well as his relationship with Coast Guard helicopter pilot Sarah deepens, but he is in for a huge, life-changing surprise. The town’s deputy sheriff, Mac, raising three children on his own with help from his aunt, has fallen in love with Gina, the mother of his 16-year-old daughter’s best friend, Ashley. Life gets tough when Gina’s daughter becomes the object of digital bullying. Mac has problems, too, relating to his gorgeous, apparently wealthy ex-wife, who abandoned him and their young children. And Sarah is up for a reassignment in the Coast Guard that will complicate things for the brother she is raising. Carr dramatizes and deepens her theme—good people caring for each other—as she continuesher thoughtful, well-plotted series with its compelling characters discovering, often the hard way, what family and community mean. --Diana Tixier Herald

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"My Kind of Christmas is another fabulous read from an author deft at mining deep emotion." --BookPage on MY KIND OF CHRISTMAS

"Ms. Carr may often revisit familiar romance themes, but one cannot deny the strength and ease of her writing.... Ms. Carr tugs out the unique aspects of [the] characters to create a story that feels both fresh and familiar, and wonderfully comfortable. It's a mark of her skill that Redwood Bend works as well as it does while traveling along such well-trodden paths." --NY Journal of Books on REDWOOD BEND

"In this heartwrenching Christmas tale-the 20th installment in Carr's bestselling Virgin River series, after Sunrise Point-two damaged souls find healing together.... Longtime fans and new readers alike will race through this tearjerker, hoping for Patrick and Angie to find their happy ending." --Publisher's Weekly on MY KIND OF CHRISTMAS

"This book is an utter delight."

-RT Book Reviews on Moonlight Road

"Strong conflict, humor and well-written characters are Carr's calling cards, and they're all present here.... You won't want to put this one down."

-RT Book Reviews on Angel's Peak

"This story has everything: a courageous, outspoken heroine, a to-die-for hero and a plot that will touch readers' hearts on several different levels. Truly excellent."

-RT Book Reviews on Forbidden Falls

"An intensely satisfying read. By turns humorous and gut-wrenchingly emotional, it won't soon be forgotten."
-RT Book Reviews on Paradise Valley

"Carr has hit her stride with this captivating series."
-Library Journal on the Virgin River series

"The Virgin River books are so compelling-I connected instantly with the characters and just wanted more and more and more."

-#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber

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Series: Thunder Point
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (June 25, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0778314529
ISBN-13: 978-0778314523
Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

This was fine for a nice afternoon read. I didn't like it as much as I ended up liking the first book in the series mainly because the lion's share of the book read like a PSA on teenage dating pitfalls.

Like the first book, this one started slow, so much so that I had a hard time sinking into it. The early pages almost read like a laundry list of stuff that people did...."he did this and then she did that and then they did this other thing". So, no, it wasn't catching me.

But eventually the story started to happen. It continues with Cooper and Sarah's romance, which is going along fine. I like Cooper more than I like Sarah -- mainly because Sarah feels like she is the least defined of all the main characters or maybe because she doesn't get as much of a POV as the rest.

I thought the story would center mainly on Mac and Gina. To some extent it did but not as much as I would have liked. Their respective exes make an appearance which is where the majority of the plot for them resides.

However my biggest problem with the book lie with the fact that much of the story was taken over by Gina's 16 y.o. daughter's dating problems. In the first book we met Ashley and Downey who were dating. Downey was a freshman in college while Ash was a junior in high school. In that book Downey was written as a decent level headed guy. Well in this book the author basically does a 180 on him. In the meantime we get treated to a somewhat, imo, pedantic primer on such things a teenage depression, online bullying, birth control, sexting, drug use etc.

On it's own, Ashley and Downey's romantic implosion wouldn't have been so bad and in places it was great drama, but on the whole it veered almost into after school special territory.

My Review:
I'll admit. I don't know what to do with this series as far as reviews go. I set the book down at the 29% point when I was reading and decided at that point, that this simply wasn't a series for me. By the end of the book, I changed my mind, but these are books are NOT typical romance. And that doesn't make them bad, but the reader needs to go into them knowing that. These books are far more along the lines of a soap opera. They tell the story of a bunch of character concurrently and in this particular book, it meant throwing as much drama at those characters as humanly possible. It is definitely not my favorite style of book...at all, but I will admit the book kept my interest and was entertaining overall.

This book continues the story of the couples that we met in book #1, Gina & Mac and Sarah & Coop...as well as all their teenage kids and we see a LOT of drama through the teenage lives in this one. Seriously....think soap opera going into this book because there is a LOT of drama from a LOT of different angles. Truly it got to be a little bit much for me. BUT that being said, like with soap operas I found myself riveted to the story. There's a reason I never turn them on in the first place.

And this review is sounding like the book, meandering all over the place. So, the review:

1. Overall, I DO really like these characters and the setting of Thundering Point.

2. I wish that Robyn Carr would settle though and focus on one main story per book. Maybe then it wouldn't feel so soap opera-ish.

3. There are WAY TOO MANY POV's in this book...that's just a personal pet peeve. But seriously, stick to 2-4 and the book would feel much more cohesive.

4. The Newcomer?? Wtf?? Who was that supposed to be?

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