The Newcomer Author: Robyn Carr | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BED26QS | Format: PDF
The Newcomer Description
With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr explores letting go of the past—and finding something worth building a future on.
Single dad and Thunder Point's deputy sheriff "Mac" McCain has worked hard to keep his town safe and his daughter happy. Now he's found his own happines with Gina James. The longtime friends have always shared the challenges and rewards of raising their adolescent daughters. With an unexpected romance growing between them, they're feeling like teenagers themselves-suddenly they can't get enough of one another.
And just when things are really taking off, their lives are suddenly thrown into chaos. When Mac's long-lost ex-wife shows up in town, drama takes on a whole new meaning. Mac and Gina know they're meant to be together, but can their newfound love withstand the pressure?
- File Size: 480 KB
- Print Length: 364 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0778314529
- Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (June 25, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BED26QS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,694 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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