The Newcomer

A brief read of the continuing saga of Thunder Point makes it sound like a daytime soap opera but I was curious to try one more outing. The community of Thunder Point is styled as an isolated self-sufficient burg where everyone knows everyone else, people mind everyone's business but their own, but also take care of one another. Being Deputy Sheriff Roger MacCain in that context means knowing implicitly who the troublemakers are and otherwise protecting drunks from themselves and keeping partying teens safe.

Being identified as Deputy Yummy Pants hardly makes an officer the object of respect. But with all the objectification of good looking women why shouldn't female writers play tit for tat. In Big Stone Gap Adriana Trigiania refers to a handsome man as having a figure that made Levis sing. Pity that hunk was gay.

Started reading this book purely out of curiosity and was instantly hooked. If you don't mind the bedroom gymnastics these books are a good read. Covered is teenage sex, sexting, and the recently defined online practice of ghosting. Definitely written from a woman's perspective.