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cjsma's review
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
jbarr5's review
4.0
Angel's Landing by Rochelle Alders
Kara Newell social worker in NY has traveled to SC for the reading of a will. Taylor Payton's relative but she didn't know her father, who's left her the island, Angel's Landing on Cavanaugh island.
There were a lot of stipulations but she owns it all, she has to live there and restore it to its original state among other things.
Her lawyer David Sullivan will look after her best interests..
The sheriff Jeffrey Hamilton of Cavanaugh Island would look out for her while she's there checking things out for a week.
Other family members don't want her to have the estate and have done things to make her go away. She's staying there and renovating the estate with many plans she has.
Love the chat about the quilting. When lives are threatened she rethinks staying ...
Kara Newell social worker in NY has traveled to SC for the reading of a will. Taylor Payton's relative but she didn't know her father, who's left her the island, Angel's Landing on Cavanaugh island.
There were a lot of stipulations but she owns it all, she has to live there and restore it to its original state among other things.
Her lawyer David Sullivan will look after her best interests..
The sheriff Jeffrey Hamilton of Cavanaugh Island would look out for her while she's there checking things out for a week.
Other family members don't want her to have the estate and have done things to make her go away. She's staying there and renovating the estate with many plans she has.
Love the chat about the quilting. When lives are threatened she rethinks staying ...
drcassb's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
attytheresa's review
2.0
I found this second in the Cavanaugh Island series a bit disappointing. Kara, a NYC social worker feeling burned out and exhausted, one day finds herself at a will reading in Charleston. Shockingly, she finds out that her biological father is someone other than the man she has always called 'Daddy', and he has left her his entire estate that includes millions in cash as well as a 2000 acre property and all the buildings and contents thereon located on Cavanaugh Island, just outside Charleston. There are of course stipulations: she must live there for 5 years and restore it. There are also a whole bunch of angry even threatening disinherited relatives, all complete strangers to her. Due to the threats verbalized during the will reading, Cavanaugh's sheriff, a retired marine named Jeff, is tasked with keeping an eye on Kara and Angel's Landing. One look at each other and the sparks fly, the chemistry sizzles, and a romance blossoms though each fight it, claiming that marriage and permanence is not for either of them for different reasons.
I found the romance too drawn out and tepid - it was so obvious from the first moments that this was a HEA couple, head right to the alter, don't pass GO! The impediments for both of them just felt lame. The Gullah culture and the ongoing efforts to keep development away from the island as well as the restoration of Angel's Landing needed to be more developed and important in the story than it ended up. It's there - and it's what makes this series so appealling to me, but here it just felt suppressed, held in the background.
Or maybe the author having Jeff, 40 years old, constantly refer to 33 year old Kara as 'baby' -- his main endearment-- just set my teeth too much on edge.
I found the romance too drawn out and tepid - it was so obvious from the first moments that this was a HEA couple, head right to the alter, don't pass GO! The impediments for both of them just felt lame. The Gullah culture and the ongoing efforts to keep development away from the island as well as the restoration of Angel's Landing needed to be more developed and important in the story than it ended up. It's there - and it's what makes this series so appealling to me, but here it just felt suppressed, held in the background.
Or maybe the author having Jeff, 40 years old, constantly refer to 33 year old Kara as 'baby' -- his main endearment-- just set my teeth too much on edge.
attytheresa's review against another edition
2.0
I found this second in the Cavanaugh Island series a bit disappointing. Kara, a NYC social worker feeling burned out and exhausted, one day finds herself at a will reading in Charleston. Shockingly, she finds out that her biological father is someone other than the man she has always called 'Daddy', and he has left her his entire estate that includes millions in cash as well as a 2000 acre property and all the buildings and contents thereon located on Cavanaugh Island, just outside Charleston. There are of course stipulations: she must live there for 5 years and restore it. There are also a whole bunch of angry even threatening disinherited relatives, all complete strangers to her. Due to the threats verbalized during the will reading, Cavanaugh's sheriff, a retired marine named Jeff, is tasked with keeping an eye on Kara and Angel's Landing. One look at each other and the sparks fly, the chemistry sizzles, and a romance blossoms though each fight it, claiming that marriage and permanence is not for either of them for different reasons.
I found the romance too drawn out and tepid - it was so obvious from the first moments that this was a HEA couple, head right to the alter, don't pass GO! The impediments for both of them just felt lame. The Gullah culture and the ongoing efforts to keep development away from the island as well as the restoration of Angel's Landing needed to be more developed and important in the story than it ended up. It's there - and it's what makes this series so appealling to me, but here it just felt suppressed, held in the background.
Or maybe the author having Jeff, 40 years old, constantly refer to 33 year old Kara as 'baby' -- his main endearment-- just set my teeth too much on edge.
I found the romance too drawn out and tepid - it was so obvious from the first moments that this was a HEA couple, head right to the alter, don't pass GO! The impediments for both of them just felt lame. The Gullah culture and the ongoing efforts to keep development away from the island as well as the restoration of Angel's Landing needed to be more developed and important in the story than it ended up. It's there - and it's what makes this series so appealling to me, but here it just felt suppressed, held in the background.
Or maybe the author having Jeff, 40 years old, constantly refer to 33 year old Kara as 'baby' -- his main endearment-- just set my teeth too much on edge.
wilovebooks's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this. Kara finds out she has a family she never knew about. Plans to stay for only a week. Meets Jeff and thinks maybe she could stay a little longer. Both have reasons not to want a relationship. Loved the characters and the small-town feel of the island. I’d read others in the series.
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