Paradise Valley ( Book #7) by Robyn Carr

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Who doesn't love reading about men who are strong, whole-hearted, hard workers, amazing lovers and even better fathers? I know I love it!

With this installment of Robyn Carr's, Virgin River Series, we get to see how the relationships of Walt and Muriel progress, Cam and Abby, and Rick and Liz. We also get to witness the beginning relationship of Dan and Cheryl (two people who've been in the series since book one and we've watched their progress). There's a lot of information so bare with me.

 ***Contains Spoilers***
Muriel just left Virgin River to go make a movie that has the potential of winning her an Oscar. Walt finds himself left behind taking care of her dogs and horses and missing the hell out of her. But his pride gets in the way and even though she keeps asking him to come visit her, he won’t. Vanni gets involved, showing her dad that he needs to be there for Muriel and stop pouting. Once Walt sees Muriel crying because she was after that he didn't feel the same about her, he finally gives in and confesses that he loves her and wants to marry her.

Cameron is trying to convince Abby to let him be apart of not only his unborn kids lives but hers as well. He comes up with a plan to have her move in with him so he can be there for his kids and slowly win her over. Before he knows it she has agreed. She moves in, and the poor thing is getting larger and larger as she carries Cameron's twins. They both tip toe around the truth, that they both love each other, and start making things work. Then bam, they come clean with each other, they start planning for their families to meet, decide to get married and then having two new born babies to take care of. Life is good.

Rick's been deployed to Iraq and we watch in horror as he gets injured. Jack and Liz rush off to Germany not sure if Rick is going to make it or not. Once there they learn that he lost his leg and it had to be amputated the worst seems over until Rick starts to wake up from the anesthesia. He believes that he is a curse. He becomes an ass, just a plain ass. He's rude, doesn't allow anyone to help him, doesn't talk to anyone and makes sure that everyone that is around him feels small. He feels that everyone would be better off without him. He's parents died when he was two, he got Liz pregnant when they were both teenagers, their baby comes out still born, he watches a team of Marines in front of him get blown up and then he loses a leg. It would be better if everyone stayed away. At first Liz tries to wait him out, but once he's back in Virgin River he makes it clear he wants nothing to do with her. He breaks up with her, in a harsh way I might add, and when she doesn’t fight him on it and ignores him he gets mad. They have a very large fight in the middle of town and 1, 2, 3 they are trying to make it work.

Dan Brady is the Shady Hat guy that is a pot grower. He's helped out when Paige was kidnapped by her crazy ex and when Jack got stranded during the forest fire and now he finds himself, freshly out of jail, looking for a place to call home - he picks Virgin River. Cheryl was the town drunk. After Mel got her to somehow go to treatment she's made a complete 180. Time will only tell what happens next with them.

Okay how I feel about this book. I still think I would love this series more if each book had one main focus. There is always so much information to take in. But with that said I can’t get enough. Robyn Carr has created an amazing small town setting with amazing characters. If it was real, I’d move there in a heart beat. I didn’t really care for the Walt and Muriel plot line, never really have. Cameron and Abby are just sweet and Rick and Liz pissed me off, but I get it. I can see someone who is only twenty acting like that and acting out for those reasons. He’s been through a lot and for the first time I actually liked Liz. She has grown into a strong independent woman and I think she will do nothing but great things for Rick. There’s still a lot of work there but it should last with a lot, A LOT, of elbow grease – but they both have to do the work.

Can’t wait for the next book!!!




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