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Paradise Valley (Virgin River, Book 7)
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| Part No: | 0778326640 |
| Manufacturer: | Mira |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9780778326649
- Condition: New
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Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq—his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart? As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the tightly knit mountain town's famous welcoming spirit. Dan Brady has a questionable past, and he's looking for a place to start over. He'd like it to be Virgin River…if he can find a way in. But he never expects to find it in the arms of a woman who was as much an outcast as himself. For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers them a chance to make peace with the men they once were…and to find the dreams they thought they'd lost.
| Paradise Valley Review from | 2010-02-24 | 5 / 5 |
| | The book was received in a timely manner and was in good condition......a great read. |
| Review on Virgin River series | 2010-02-17 | 5 / 5 |
| I have read all 8 Virgin River books by Robyn Carr (2 more to be released soon). They are excellent stories but are a bit sexually explicit for my taste. But each book develops new characters, as well as continuing with previous ones. I definitely have enjoyed the story content.
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| Too much going on | 2010-01-28 | 1 / 5 |
| Gosh this one had too many plots, and there wasn't enough time dedicated to any of them. Robyn Carr always has a lot of storylines running at the same time in her books, but there's usually one that is the main focus. Here, there wasn't, and I found I didn't care about any of the characters. I never liked Rick and Liz much, but the back of the book said this was their story. It really wasn't. They were hardly in it.
Robyn Carr needs a better editor; someone who will force her to plot her stories better and make her find the heart of her book. There are too many tangents, and this book is a really annoying read.
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| The most boring in the series so far | 2010-01-24 | 1 / 5 |
| Rick is wounded in Iraq and pushes Liz, Jack and all the others who care about him away. Walt and Muriel yet again bore me to tears. Abby and Cameron proceed with their relationship, but after their exciting beginning in a previous book, leave me disappointed. There are irrelevant tangents that should have been edited out.
This book really drags in a lot of places. With each new addition to the series, Robyn Carr seems to devote more and more time to talking about home renovations. And I'm sorry, but that's just too boring to fill half a novel. She goes into so much detail about every aspect of every house, and what is going to be done to change it, I did a lot of skim reading. Those are pages that would be better off filled with plot of some sort.
I'm not entirely sure why Carr's editor lets her get away with her poor plotting and structure time and time again. The first couple of chapters of this book belonged in the book preceding it. They featured characters who starred in Temptation Ridge - characters who had nothing to do with the main story in Paradise Valley. The fact this is a series does not excuse the way the author so blatantly runs one book into the next. Series or no series, each book should be able to hold up on its own, and this one does not. And, yet again, she finished the story featuring the wrong characters.
I've never been much of a fan of Rick and Liz. Rick is a Gary Stu to Mel's Mary Sue, and I've never been all that interested in reading a book featuring him. Though it is officially Rick and Liz's book, they aren't in it very much, and when they are the scenes are repetitious and uninteresting.
One thing that left me very perplexed was Mel's reaction to Rick's injuries. When she found out, she really didn't seem to care. Her reaction was so cold, unemotional; I couldn't figure out what was going on. Mel has always been a bit of a Mary Sue. Everybody loves her and all the men think she's beautiful and perfect. But in the end she's an extremely forceful, self-righteous character. I really want to like her more, but nobody ever calls her out on her behaviour.
And then Dan went and turned into Doctor Phil, and it occurred to me just how impossible this author finds it to write realistic characters. Everyone is perfect. They're all kind and helpful and the men are so effeminate it is obvious they are written the way a weak woman might fantasise men would act. They speak with a woman's voice - no real men are like Virgin River men.
The Walt/Muriel storyline still bores me, and all the real-life celebrity name-dropping that comes with the fact Muriel is a movie star is still stupid. This couple is just so...blah...by the end I was skimming their parts, and found I didn't miss out on much.
This book was just boring for me. I tried really hard to get into it, but there wasn't anything to hold my interest, and I skimmed over much of it. Carr's strength is definitely NOT plotting - her books never have much of interest going on. What she's good at is characterisation, but even that fell flat in this edition.
There are babies everywhere again. If there's anything you want to know about pregnancy, you're better off reading this series than something from the bookstore's health section! It's very telling that the author thanks her midwife consultant first in the acknowledgement section of every book. Shows her priorities are far more on the baby part rather than the love part. To me, paragraphs about medicine and pregnancy complications just aren't fun. And, the author's prejudices are front and centre yet again. Even though this time a character goes to hospital to deliver, she's too late for an epidural. In Robyn Carr's world, all women want natural homebirths. All breastfeed. All want seven thousand people present when they give birth. Everything is always the same. And this couple's story ended the moment they had babies. In the Virgin River world everyone's stories always end the moment they produce offspring. As if having a baby is their only worth.
What really annoyed me about the baby obsession in this book was when a traumatised Rick returned to Virgin River. Nobody who loved him could get through to him, but then Paige plonked her baby in his arms, and - voila! - Rick was back. Robyn Carr always writes about babies being miracles, but that was utterly stupid.
I also did not appreciate the constant references to how `huge' Abby was with her pregnancy. I was insulted on behalf of a fictional character!
Once again the author makes the mistake of repeating the same information over and over. And over. When something happens we see every conversation between characters where they find out the news. For example, the way Abby and Cameron met is relayed to us about four times in this book - each time with a different character finding out the news. WE - the readers - do not need to experience these conversations. We already know this stuff; the other characters should find out off the page.
I did not appreciate all the `women of a certain age' scenes. Apart from being incredibly boring, it seems anyone over fifty is desperate to have thousands of grandchildren, and they are quite happy to force their plans onto their children. On top of that, they are obsessed with weddings, and don't believe a relationship with children can work without marriage. This series is in many ways so terribly old fashioned I simply cannot believe the author is in my parents' generation. Her writing often reads like something from my great grandmother's generation!
There quite simply was nothing worth reading in this book in the Virgin River series. The `story' was nothing more than mundane details about characters' mundane lives. I could have put this book down and gone and experienced exactly the same thing on my own. When I pick up a book I want something memorable to actually happen.
Of everything I found wrong with book seven in this series, the biggest problem was that I was just plain bored.
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| A good read | 2009-12-26 | 4 / 5 |
| | This was actually a pretty good read. Of course we are reunited with the lovely characters from Virgin River and there's always something going on in this small group. I really got into Rick and Liz's story. It was heartwarming and touching to see the two young lovers work it out through the obstacles placed before them. Now I know the second story was suppose to be about Dan and Cheryl but I felt that story was lacking. I believe that if the author would have cut some of Abby and Cameron's story out, she could have helped us get to know them better. There was entirely too much time devoted to Cam and Abby. Overall the story was good and I look forward to reading about who else pops up in Virgin River. |
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