Title: Redwood Bend
Average Customer Review:
Number of Comments: 8 Rating(s)   7 Review(s)

A lovely trip around the bend to Virgin River

February 28, 2012
Reviewer:

Katie Malone decided that the best thing she could do for her five-year old twin boys was to give them a better sense of family after all they had been through. (In Hidden Summit, she was shipped off from Sacramento to Vermont when her brother, Connor Danson, needed witness protection.) So, she packed up her belongings and moved to join her brother in Virgin River, at least for the time being.

On her way up the mountain, Katie has a flat and Dylan Childress is one of four vacationing bikers who stopped to help. She specifically notices and recognizes him as a former child actor who she'd had a crush on as a pre-teen but she doesn't let on that she knows who he is. They later run into each other again at Jack's Bar and Dylan takes it from there.

These are two people who are essentially in the same place but one doesn't know it. Katie is ready for stability, community and commitment. Dylan comes from such a dysfunctional family, he doesn't believe that he has it in his DNA to have a successful, committed relationship in the long term. But everything about his present life just screams solid and committed. Both enter into a "commitment free" relationship, knowing Dylan will soon be returning to his home and business in Montana. When the time comes for him to leave, neither can admit to each other that it was more than a "fling."

There was something oddly comfortable about Katie and Dylan's relationship, even though it felt temporary a lot of the time and when it appeared to go south. These two characters were so really well defined you felt you knew the paths they were going to have to take to come to terms with each other, no matter how painful. It's not predictable but it's terribly honest. Carr took time and paid attention to the nuances of the characters and the developing emotions and ensured the details were in sync with their histories.

Many of the characters from past stories appear in supporting roles to this romance. However, missing are the other secondary story lines that I find critical to each book, where the residents we've come to know and love have substantive roles going forward. Even some of the new characters introduced here could have had more page time (Dylan's grandmother, Adele; Walt the biker). It's a drawback though largely compensated for by the depth of Katie and Dylan's story.

I was glad to see Katie get her own romance and this one was well done. I just hope we haven't seen the last of her and Dylan.

As good as all the others before it.

April 15, 2012
Reviewer: A reader from SANTA CLARITA, CA USA

This Virgin River series is wonderful. This Book, Redwood Bend does not dissapoint. Katie and Dylan's story is fun. The twins are little angels. It was fun to visit with all the Virgin River people again. I can't wait for the next book!

Redwood Bend

April 10, 2012
Reviewer: A reader from LAKE STEVENS, WA USA

I love every single Virgin River Series and this one does not disappoint! The towns dynamics always return to Jack's Bar where everyone lives in Virgin River meet.

Redwood Bend

March 13, 2012
Reviewer: A reader from Mass, USA

I found Robyn Carr a few years back and am so glad that I found her books. I love the Virgin River series and eagerly await each new installment. The characters and storylines are heartwarming and draw in the reader. I highly recommend this author.

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