Published February 28th 2012 by Piatkus Books
About the book
From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas comes a tale of love and magic...
Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fiancĂ© Kevin has left her. His new lover is Lucy’s own sister. Lucy's bitterness over being dumped is multiplied by the fact that she has constantly made the wrong choices in her romantic life.
Facing the severe disapproval of Lucy's parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, a local vineyard owner on San Juan Island, to "romance" Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. Complications ensue when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love, Kevin has second thoughts, and Lucy discovers that the new relationship in her life began under false pretenses. Questions about love, loyalty, old patterns, mistakes, and new beginnings are explored as Lucy learns that some things in life—even after being broken—can be made into something new and beautiful.
My Thoughts
No matter what, we’re together. A binary star can have a distant orbit, but it’s still held together by gravity.
Loved it!!
I’ve been a Lisa Kleypas fan longer than I can remember. I first started with her histroms and blew through them like a hungry puppy. However, I have to say, as with many other authors I’ve come to love, when they decide to cross genres, I become a bit skeptical.
I mean let’s consider Melina Marchetta for example. Everyone who knows me can attest to the fact that if you ask me for a book recommendation, you’re going to get a Marchetta book on the list of recs. See, she blows me away with her contemporary writing, but the day she came out with a fantasy book I was the first to scream “Hold your sock puppets! What is this!?!” Well as with Marchetta, Kleypas has proven a seamless ability to go from one genre to the next easier than I can shift from reverse to drive in my rush to work each morning.
In Rainshadow Road we get to hear Lucy and Sam’s story, which immediately picks up where Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor left off. I was enchanted by this contemporary romance from the beginning, and color me awed when I discovered Kleypas decided to sprinkle her pages with magic. Yes! Magic! Oh I was beaming! I love stories that can find a way to show how miracles and magic just might exist. I’m a dreamer, what can I say? And don’t even get me started on Sam’s inner nerd. I loved the geeky T-shirts and his little moments where his knowledge of thermo-physics and sub-particle whatever-you-call-its reveal themselves. I got a bit giddy. I surely did.
This story had so many layers to it and each time I turned the ePages, I became more and more enchanted as the characters revealed their ability to shift the world around them with their connection to elements within their control. I loved the slow building romance, the plot development, the beautiful setting; oh and anytime an author includes an animal that’s too perfect for words, well you’re going to get a bit of excitement from me. This book was my perfect blend of awesome in every way possible.
5 Suns
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