The Wanderer Author: Robyn Carr | Language: English | ISBN:
B00ALTVIHO | Format: PDF
The Wanderer Description
From Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the popular Virgin River novels, comes THUNDER POINT—the highly anticipated new series that will make you laugh, make you sigh, and make you fall in love with a small town filled with people you'll never forget.
Nestled on the Oregon Coast is a small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land's unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he's been left an old friend's entire beachfront property, he finds himself with a community's destiny in his hands.
Cooper has never been a man to settle in one place, and Thunder Point was supposed to be just another quick stop. But Cooper finds himself getting involved with the town. And with Sarah Dupre, a woman as complicated as she is beautiful.
With the whole town watching for his next move, Cooper has to choose between his old life and a place full of new possibilities. A place that just might be home.
- File Size: 470 KB
- Print Length: 382 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0778314472
- Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (March 26, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ALTVIHO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,603 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #98
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary Fiction > Romance
- #98
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary Fiction > Romance
I've recently read the first couple of books from Robyn Carr's Virgin River series and absolutely loved them, so I was excited to get started with her new series on the ground floor. It did not disappoint! Once again, Ms. Carr delivers strong characters who draw you into the story with their depth and emotion, and an amazing small-town setting that is an engaging character in and of itself.
The story takes place in Thunder Point, a remote community on the rocky coast of Oregon. Hank Cooper comes to town after his friend Ben dies and leaves him an old run-down bar/bait shack and a huge chunk of beachfront property. I enjoyed how the book started out with a mystery - even though there was no evidence found, Cooper suspects there was foul play involved in Ben's death. He befriends Mac McCain, the town's deputy sheriff, and together they look for clues as to what really happened to Ben.
Cooper is a loner-type who doesn't like to stay in one place long, but he owes it to Ben to fix up his place and decide what's best for the property. Along the way he meets Sarah, a Coast Guard helicopter pilot raising her teenage brother, Landon. There is a strong attraction between Cooper and Sarah, but Sarah's been burned by men in the past, and doesn't want to risk she and Landon being abandoned again. How can an emotionally unavailable man and an emotionally scarred woman overcome their hurdles and make it work?
This book seems to have set the foundation for the series, and much like Virgin River, the secondary characters in Thunder Point have their own stories too. There's Mac, the deputy sheriff, and Gina, a single mom and waitress pursuing a Social Work degree. There's also Landon and Eve, Mac's 16-year old daughter.
This was just OK. I've read a number of books by this author, including the Virgin River series which has apparently given rise to this new Thunder Point series. Robyn Carr usually writes a pretty coherent and engaging story. This one isn't so great - perhaps it's because it's the first in a new series and she spends a lot of time building the setting and the large cast of characters. To be honest, most novels should stand alone, and I don't typically like having so many story lines and irrelevant characters that you feel like a pin ball zinging around inside of a machine.
The primary male lead, Cooper, is the "Wanderer". Never commits. Never settles in one place. Lives in a towable trailer and likes it that way. He ends up in Thunder Point to settle the estate of an old Army buddy. I never really warmed up to him. The female lead, Sarah, is a Coast Guard helicopter pilot, raising her teen-age brother, and recently divorced from a philandering husband. She's actually pretty likeable, but she scarcely appears in the story until well into the book. Then they connect with the intention of having a short-lived affair since Cooper plans to depart within a month or two. It never really develops. Since this is a romance novel, you know they aren't just going to part in the end, and so they don't. But, you also don't get the feeling that there's much there.
A lot of the dialogue just seemed to drag on and on, without adding much to the story. The plot is okay, but also a bit disjonted.
The most interesting characters, and the ones who are apparently going to be central to the ongoing series, are the Deputy Sherriff, Mac, and the waitress from the diner, Gina.
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