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Second Chance Pass (Virgin River, Book 5)
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Manufacturer: Mira
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In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son--breaking her heart while filling it with a whole new kind of love. But the one man she longs to share this love with now acts as if she doesn't exist.
Paul Haggerty lives by the marine motto: Siper Fi. Ever faithful to his best friend, he's done right by Matt's widow as best he can...considering he's been secretly in love with her for years. Now, just as he's about to make his move, another woman has staked her claim on him--a claim that will be tough to escape.
With courage, humility and not a little meddling from the good folks of Virgin River, Vanni and Paul might just get a second chance to have the love they both desire and deserve.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780778326465
Feature: ISBN13: 9780778326465
ISBN: 0778326462
Label: Mira
Manufacturer: Mira
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Publisher: Mira
Studio: Mira
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• ISBN13: 9780778326465
• Condition: New
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Sensationalistic and filled with profanity - contrived -
I really wanted to like this book and forced myself to read it all the way through, but I had to skim quite a bit to get through it.
First, there is a lot of profanity that I find very unsexy and just not neccesary. I'm sorry but Jesus is not a cuss word nor is all the GD words. The F word and S words were used in great frequency.
Second, all of the graphic sex scenes between the teenagers, the unmarried people and men thinking they're in love just because a woman has a nice body is not romance. It's PORN.
Third, The love story between Vanni and Paul was not very well developed and was maybe one third of the book in total.
Fourth, the dramatizing of nursing mothers, and Jack and Mel's whole near death was just disgusting. Then to throw in a forest fire seemed like she was trying to get her page count up.
Much of the story was just stuff happening and I found the characters goals, conflict and resolution contrived.
Lastly, I'm not fond of reading a book that afterwards I feel as if I had been verbally abused with all the cussing and the porn was just over the top.
I usually share my books with friends and family, but this book is going in the recycle bin. I'd be happey to try Robyn Carr again, only if I could be sure I wasn't going to feel assaulted after reading another one of her books.
I'm really disapointed in Mira Publishing who also publishes Debbie Macomber... I guess that's what I was hoping for... I nice sweet read with real characters. This book was not that.
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robyn carr Virgin River series -
great series - read #1 first and continue in order. Makes you want to move to the Virgin River area.
So far, my least favorite -
Up till now, I was a diehard fan of this series and determined to read straight through to the end. After reading this installment, however, I think I will take a little break. This one was definitely a slog to get through.
I have read with amusement the other readers' comments about the abundant breastfeeding that goes on in Carr's books, as well as those appalled about the fact that two teenagers actually had sex and they had to read about it. I would say to those readers, get real. Women have babies and breastfeed them all the time. (OK, in this series they pretty much do it ALL THE TIME, but it comes with the territory. Many of us with memories of nursing our babes felt like it was a constant process.) Also, in this type of book, people have sex. In this case the two people are teenagers who really love each other, and I have to say I thought it was pretty sweet. The other issue a lot of readers seem to have is with Jack sucking on Mel's breast. Again, without giving away too much of the plot, he had an excellent reason, he tried other alternatives first, and she was darn lucky he did that.
So, after defending this book against its detractors, the reason I was less than impressed has to do with the overall tone. At times it verged on corniness for me. It also felt like Carr was throwing in everything but the kitchen sink in terms of plot points. Also I have to say I do not find Vanni and Paul as appealing as some of the other denizens of Virgin River. They do seem to wallow in being victims of circumstance much more than they need to. I realize that my viewpoint is completely personal, and I truly hope that I will develop a great affection for them as they build their own household and settle into Virgin River. I hope this is just a blip in the series, and I will read on eventually. If I had started with this book, however, I am not sure I would have committed to the series. It's a little helter-skelter for me.
Second Chanace Pass -
It is so much fun to read one of Robyn Carr book. I have read everything by her that I can find.
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Reads like a long high school health class - be warned -
Now, there is a tiny bit of good here - a lot of things I had problems with in the past books are improved upon, but at the same time some of the problems are worse.
First of all, about two-thirds of the way through there's a scene involving Jack and Mel that is without a doubt the most disturbing thing I have ever read. My God...I almost stopped reading when I got there, but I had to continue to try and rid myself of the horror.
The tone of this book is set at the beginning, and it's not good. Yet again I felt myself despairing at author Robyn Carr's wasted talent - because she could be one magnificent writer if she let go of some of her prejudices.
By the end of chapter one there have been three discussions about safe sex, two pelvic exams, and plenty of unsubtle hints that only women who breastfeed are worthy. Add to that yet more of Ms Carr's constant implications that any unmarried, childless woman over twenty-five has something to be ashamed of, and you can see why I was worried about what was to come.
Mel is back and as self-righteous as ever (though, considering her profession, I don't see how she can be that way after getting pregnant by accident twice in the space of a couple of years).
The whole thing left me wondering what happened to the plot. Was there going to be one? Or was Robyn Carr's fascination with women's health yet again going to hijack what otherwise could have been a good novel? Ms Carr has real talent, and yet she lets all of her personal prejudices ruin her books.
It's a pity.
After that, the talk about breastfeeding was never-ending. There really was nothing in the way of plot, but Vanessa managed to `nurse' half a dozen times every chapter. And then when Paul - after going on and on about how much he loves pregnant women - announced to Jack that he'd love to be present when Jack's wife gave birth, and THEN the whole town packed up and went have a party and be present for the birth... God, the obsession with babies slipped right into creepy.
Ms Carr tends to be very repetitious in her writing. This is a series, and it makes sense to give some of the same information from one book to the next. But this author repeats information in the same book! We are reminded of events that happened in the same book, and sometimes a character (such as Nikki here) will get a paragraph-long description of their appearance more than once, as if we can't remember. Where was the editor?
The main couple in this book - Paul and Vanessa - were introduced in book three, and their story seemed like it was going to be fascinating and full of emotion. Vanessa was married to Matt, and Paul was Matt's best friend. Matt was killed in Iraq before he got to meet his son. Now Paul and Vanessa have to sort out their feelings for each other.
The romance is more prominent in much of this book than it has been in others. The other characters do pop up, do take part in the story, but they do not dominate the book. In the past the leading characters have been swamped by all the others, whereas here the heart of the book is more defined.
Well, for the first two thirds. After that, Paul and Vanessa completely disappear from the story. There is nothing about them in the last few chapters. I couldn't believe it. Robyn Carr often goes off on tangents towards the end of her books, but in the past she's always returned to the main couple at the end. Here, she didn't. It was beyond bizarre. You read a blurb telling you the story's about a particular couple, and then they just disappear from the book?!
Somehow the story got bogged down in talking about wanting babies, designing extensions...all the mundane things we read books to get away from.
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