Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Shelter Mountain

Romances tend to stick to a fairly defined pattern and reading multiple series by the same author can tend to get them confused.

The series is called Virgin River which is a bit ironic given the number of pregnant women, none of them virgin births. We return to Jack and Mel, the bar Jack runs with Preacher and Rickie after school, the clinic across the road, and the other small-town characters plus the strays that show up at their doorstep. Although nominally a romance novel this is more about life in small town mountainous Northern California. Confronted are issues of spousal abuse and teenage pregnancy. Hard to believe that people with a mindset like Paige’s brother Bud exist, or rather I’d like to think they don’t. 

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