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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I had a fun time reading the series but it... left a little to be desired in some places.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, War
Minor: Pregnancy
Shane and Rebecca.
I read this a while ago and loved it, so I'm am revisiting it as an audio book. The reader, Luke Daniels, is pretty good, but sometimes confuses Shane's voices with those of his brothers and gave Rebecca an annoying voice. Still, I am enjoying it and the voices aren't too distracting from the story.
The last and imho the best of the series. Shane is the youngest brother and a ladies man. He loves the ladies so much he can't imagine settling down with just one. Then along comes Rebecca, a super smart Geek who is determined to turn over a new leaf. No more Geek. No more doing what others (her snobby parents) think she should do. Rebecca is a friend of one of Shane's sister in-laws and is studying ghosts, of which Shane's farm has several. Several ghosts that Shane refuses to acknowledge and doesn't want Rebecca to either. But the ghosts have other ideas and a need to be heard before they can rest. Shane doesn't know what to make of Rebecca. On the one hand he is drawn to her like no other, but on the other hand she doesn't respond to him like he's used to women doing. It leaves him confused and unsure, two things he isn't used to being. I loved the way Rebecca leads him a merry dance without even realizing she is doing so.
The ending was kinda corny and mushy but I still loved it!
I read this a while ago and loved it, so I'm am revisiting it as an audio book. The reader, Luke Daniels, is pretty good, but sometimes confuses Shane's voices with those of his brothers and gave Rebecca an annoying voice. Still, I am enjoying it and the voices aren't too distracting from the story.
The last and imho the best of the series. Shane is the youngest brother and a ladies man. He loves the ladies so much he can't imagine settling down with just one. Then along comes Rebecca, a super smart Geek who is determined to turn over a new leaf. No more Geek. No more doing what others (her snobby parents) think she should do. Rebecca is a friend of one of Shane's sister in-laws and is studying ghosts, of which Shane's farm has several. Several ghosts that Shane refuses to acknowledge and doesn't want Rebecca to either. But the ghosts have other ideas and a need to be heard before they can rest. Shane doesn't know what to make of Rebecca. On the one hand he is drawn to her like no other, but on the other hand she doesn't respond to him like he's used to women doing. It leaves him confused and unsure, two things he isn't used to being. I loved the way Rebecca leads him a merry dance without even realizing she is doing so.
The ending was kinda corny and mushy but I still loved it!
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was okay. Like I said, this aren't the kind of books that you hold tight and whisper thousands of thanks yous for saving you; you don't go around with one of these in your favorite-books-of-all-time lists. But they're easy to read, comfortable and appropriate for some lazy day when you just wanna be sappy and romantic and read about people fall in love.
Anyways, this is a nice book!
Anyways, this is a nice book!
This has always been my least favorite installment in this quartet.
I just don't connect with the characters as much...
I just don't connect with the characters as much...
Published 1996, read in 2024.
I can see the blueprint for today's romance novels in this story structure: rough but sweet farmer boy (and ladies man) and cool, intelligent intellectual woman.
This story finishes the story arc of the 4 brothers - healing for them and healing for the pasts trauma of the lands they all live on.
I can see the blueprint for today's romance novels in this story structure: rough but sweet farmer boy (and ladies man) and cool, intelligent intellectual woman.
This story finishes the story arc of the 4 brothers - healing for them and healing for the pasts trauma of the lands they all live on.
Ah at long last, Shane has met his match and given in. I loved seeing them fall in love and I love the ghosts in this one. Amazing end to the series.
Leave it to Nora to somehow make me LIKE a "ladies man" type of character-- and not only that, but somehow get me to ship him with the never-been-with-anyone heroine. I usually do not like this trope at all, but man... Shane is so annoyingly loveable lol. And I adore Rebecca, her demeanor, the fact that she's trying to put on a brave face when she's really so shy inside... all the little things that make up these two characters actually managed to make me root for them, which I wasn't expecting. As far as the series goes, this was definitely my second favorite story after Devin's. And like book 3, the connection to the past in this story made a lot more sense to me than it did in the first two books.