Synopsis
from Goodreads: Spring
has come to Eternity Springs in the newest installment in this New
York Times bestselling series by Emily March.
When
Josh Tarkington gets stuck on a gondola with the lovely Caitlin
Timberlake, he thinks his consistently bad luck might have
changed.
After
their blossoming romance is interrupted, Caitlin realizes that her
encounter with Josh was a sign that she needed to make a major life
change. So she packs up her things and moves to Eternity Springs,
opens a day care, and sets her cap for the town’s
mechanic—Josh.
But
Josh is hiding a well of secrets that would ruin him, and his
relationship with everyone in Eternity Springs—especially Caitlin.
When tragedy strikes, Josh and Caitlin find themselves, and their
relationship, tested beyond imagining. Will they be able to find
their way back to each other?
Stats
for my copy:
Kindle edition, St. Martin's Paperbacks, expected publication date
2/27/18.
How
acquired:
NetGalley
My
thoughts: I'm
usually pretty anal about reading series books in order, but when I
received an email from NetGalley that this book was available for
forty-eight hours I immediately downloaded it. I've not previously
read anything by this author, but I've heard good things about her,
and one friend compared her to Robyn Carr, so I was excited to give
her a try.
Each
chapter is prefaced with a short “Journal Entry”. We don't know
at first which character is journaling, but they threw me a little
off kilter at first with hints of past child abuse. Once I got past
that though, I enjoyed the story. And not having read the previous
books in the series wasn't an issue at all. I suspect some of the
supporting characters might have been the heroes/heroines of previous
books, but this one can definitely stand on it's own.
Caitlin
meets Josh, and his dog Penny, who is in a little doggy wheelchair,
while in Telluride for a wedding, when they are trapped together in a
gondola. Like Caitlin, that first meeting with Josh had me hooked on
him immediately. He's good looking, he's funny, and who wouldn't fall
for a man who loves a little dog like Penny?
In
a lot of romance novels the hero is the dogged pursuer. He meets a
woman and knows right away that she's the one, and he sets out to
convince her of that, while she resists because she's been burned
before. Here, it's Caitlin who decides early on that Josh is the one.
The last thing he wants is a relationship, and he's not a happy
camper when he learns that Caitlin has moved to Eternity Springs to
be near her parents and brother.
Of
course you know how it will all end, because it is a romance, after
all. But the journey to that ending was very enjoyable. The writing
is a bit breezy, and I especially enjoyed Caitlin's interactions with
her brother. The subject matter does get a little deep, as Josh has a
lot of baggage, but it was never sensationalized and was thoughtfully
handled. I'm going to have to look for the first book in the series
and then go on from there!
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