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Healing Luke (2009)

by Beth Cornelison(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1402224346 (ISBN13: 9781402224348)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Sourcebooks Casablanca

review 1: I enjoyed Healing Luke immensely. It was a completely believable and realistic tortured hero story. No scarred vampires, imprisoned werewolves, or MIA super hero Navy SEALS in this one. Just a regular guy who is dealing with the aftermath of his life when he is the victim of a horrible accident. Luke Morgan is a former ladies man who was disfigured and scarred in a boat accident. He is bitter and angry to the point he has completely shut out his brother and father who were once as close to him as family could be. Luke receives an eye opening experience when Abby, an Occupational Therapist shows up to his family's scuba store looking to go on the scuba tour she originally had planned to attend with her husband to be. Abby enters the Morgan men's lives with scars of he... morer own, though her's are emotional and on her heart they are no less debilitating than Luke's. After some coercing Abby agrees to take Luke on as a therapy patient. He has lost one eye and the thumb on his right hand and he has to relearn how to do normal things that most people do on a daily basis without even thinking twice about it. This makes Luke angry and stubborn and full of self pity. He feels life is unfair and has a hard time adjusting. Luke and Abby fight their attraction to one another from the beginning, both of them suffering from their own form of an inferiority complex. The feelings both of them have directed inward at themselves and at each other I felt were realistic and heart warming. I admired Abby so much as a heroine she was so sweet and understanding but never did she take any of Luke's crap when he was full of self pity and lashed out at her. The only negative feeling I had towards Healing Luke was I felt there was a bit too much hemming and hawing in the sexual tension. Do I, Don't I???? should I shouldn't I??? I agree with the reviewer who said I wanted to shake them both and scream "JUST TELL HIM/HER ALREADY!!!" This was the only thing that brought the book down from a 5 star for me. I will definitely read Beth Cornelison again.
review 2: Luke Morgan runs a snorkeling and fishing business with his brother Aaron and father Bart that caters to tourists. Both the Morgan brothers are ladies men and can have any woman who comes their way. But when Luke loses an eye and a thumb, and gets scars all over his body from a boating accident, he becomes a bitter recluse. His days of competing with his brother for women are over. Abby Stanford comes to Florida on what was to be her honeymoon, until she catches her fiance in bed with another woman. She feels hurt and betrayed and decides after cancelling her wedding she will still go off to Florida to get away from it all. Perhaps a few days in the sun and relaxing on the beach will clear her head and keep her from wondering why she was so lacking in her former fiance’s eye that he would turn to another woman for sex. Abby is not the type to sit around and brood, so she will enjoy herself and take up some snorkeling. When she meets Luke, he is rude and cold to her. And when she meets Aaron, she finds him very attractive, much to Luke’s dismay. Luke thinks that Abby will eventually succumb to Aaron’s charms even though he finds her attractive. She will surely never even look at him twice.Aaron and Bart think Abby is wonderful and ask her to help Luke with his injuries and therapy since Abby is an occupational therapist. She will stay on because she wants to help Luke even though he is very surly around her. Abby is used to working with patients who act like Luke, but she has never been attracted to them like she is to him. Luke continues to wallow in his self-pity even though he allows Abby to help him. Soon, he is falling for the beautiful young woman and wants more from her than just her professional hands on techniques. Beth Cornelison’s Healing Luke is about forgiving ones self and finding the ways to go on in life, especially after a horrible accident. This is one book that showcases the importance of family devotion and how important it is not to turn your back on those who have your best interests at heart. Cornelison’s portrayal of Luke is very real to life. His reactions and actions are everything I would expect from a man who feels he has lost everything. His whole life has been destroyed and he doesn’t know how to deal with the aftermath, even when Abby walks into his life. The way he treats her may annoy some readers, but this is a man who has gone though a great trauma.Abby is a nice heroine, even though she almost ventures into the wholesome and innocent territory. When Abby is first introduced, you feel her emotional pain because of the betrayal of her fiance and her lack of self-esteem. It doesn’t help matters that Aaron at first seems to want to seduce her but then decides against it because he finds Abby to be a great person. Then you have Luke who continually pushes her away, until he can’t deny his attraction to her. There is a lot of pushing and pulling between Abby and Luke and you may get to the point where you have decided that enough is enough.Luke and Aaron's father, Bart is the voice of reason and I really loved the family dynamics of the Morgan clan. These men are essentially good people when it comes down to it. There is also an interesting reaction from Aaron in regards to Abby’s friend Brooke who comes to visit that may lead to a sequel of sorts.Healing Luke is a nice tender romance that has a great setting and characters you wouldn’t mind sitting down and having coffee with if they were real. less

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