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Hidden Summit (2011)

by Robyn Carr(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

077831300X (ISBN13: 9780778313007)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mira

series

Virgin River

review 1: Do not take my 3-star rating as an indication that this isn't a good book. It is. It just wasn't a great book for me.Throughout the Virgin River series I have gotten used to Robyn Carr having multiple storylines going in each book. Well, with an exception of some of the Christmas books anyway. Although I really loved Conner and Leslie and their relationship, I missed hearing more about the town as a whole. Especially when it came to Nora and her kids. I really would have liked to see Becca with them a bit more since they touched her so much in the last book.The only other thing that bugged me was at the beginning. There is a reference to Conner having to make sure his sister, Katie, was financially stable when her husband died. He was in the military. Now I know f... morerom experience that our military men and women do not get paid enough, but they have some really good life insurance. When my husband and I were first starting out and barely living above the poverty level with his military pay, he used to joke that he was worth far more dead than alive. Morbid but true. With as much as I respect the authors writing and feel she often has things spot on when it comes to the mindset of military men, I think this little detail was something that shouldn't have been missed.Even with all of that, this was a solid story and I really appreciated the inside look into Leslie's first marriage. I think I lot of people in this world settle without realizing they are doing so and maybe her story will help wake them up.
review 2: I love Robyn Carr’s novels. She writes such wonderfully witty romances with completely realistic characters that I wish Virgin River were a real place. Here, the heroine is divorcee Leslie Petrusco, who has left Grant’s Pass to avoid constantly running into her narcissistic ex-husband and his newly pregnant wife. The divorce was hard enough on her, but the pregnancy hits Leslie like a gut punch: her ex told her that he didn’t want kids with her. However, he’s decided that he wants to be friends. Leslie has other ideas and when an old friend, Paul Haggerty, offers her a job working in Virgin River for Haggerty Construction, she jumps at the chance and becomes the office manager.Danson Connor (who is now known as Connor Danson) has also escaped a bad marriage to a sex addict, but also has more problems: he’s the only witness to a murder in Sacramento and his hardware business was burned to the ground in an effort to silence him. He arrives in Virgin River and also begins working for Haggerty Construction. Connor and Leslie meet and there’s definitely some chemistry between them but a misunderstanding leaves them at odds with each other. Neither Leslie nor Connor seem to want a relationship, but their friendship catches fire. In one of the loveliest scenes, Connor brings Leslie flowers: that is, he brings perennials and flowers to plant around her rental house. Connor’s devotion to his sister (a widow) and her two boys, who all live in Vermont, is also nice to see. Carr’s characters are never one-dimensional. Katie, Connor’s sister, is the main character of “Redwood Bend”, the next novel in the series. Her romance is hinted at in this book.Fans familiar with the Virgin River series will welcome back recurring characters like Dan Brady and Brie Valenzuela while getting to know Leslie and Connor. Leslie’s ex is goofy and self-centered, and his new wife, Alison, is appropriately rude and obnoxious. How Leslie deals with her ex following her into Virgin River in a vain attempt to (re) gain her friendship is hilarious. Highly recommended. less

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