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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
i love small town romance books. i love devney perry books in general. i love short books that still feel like normal length books. i love brooks. i love londyn.
I loved this story about a woman who reinvents herself. She is not ashamed of her past but it is not all she is. Not everyone gets an awesome origin story. Some kids are not loved or taken care of. Some find family in other ways. These kids finding each other and making the best of their situation and form a big connection.
Londyn & Brooks were just so yummy. There’s no huge drama. No big fights. Just an unexpected love story with a couple bumps in the road.
I really need to know about Karsen so I hope he’s got a book coming.
Londyn & Brooks were just so yummy. There’s no huge drama. No big fights. Just an unexpected love story with a couple bumps in the road.
I really need to know about Karsen so I hope he’s got a book coming.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
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
Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Devney Perry has this innate ability as a writer to capture the lives of people who have endured pain and trauma by controlling the variables of their lives. In many of her books, the key variable of control is relationships with others. Whether it’s through hermiting themselves away or erecting tall emotional walls, it’s these moments in her stories that offer the tension that we all love to hate. She crafts characters that feel real: they look like us (somewhat), they act like us, they feel like us. Therefore, we find bits of ourselves reflected back at us, and it acts as a mirror of the human condition. Perry’s newest story, Runaway Road, is no different. In the midst of the simple quiet of Brooks Cohen and Londyn McCormack’s story is a truth that we all need to love and be loved in order to live an abundant life. This truth is found in so many of Devney Perry’s stories, and it’s the reason that so many of us love her writing.
Runaway Road tells the story of Brooks Cohen and Londyn McCormack. Londyn has left her former life: a husband, a life abundant with riches, and her best friend. Why? Her husband is cheating on her, her abundant life is only abundant in its wealth, and she needs to move on, even if leaving her friend is difficult. When life gets difficult, Londyn has learned to keep moving in order to keep herself afloat. As she leaves her old life behind, she finds herself stranded in Summers, West Virginia, a small town filled with downhome, kind people. It is there, while she awaits her car repairs, that Londyn meets the local mechanic, Brooks Cohen. At first meeting, Londyn and Brooks are drawn to each other.
Brooks Cohen is a single dad who has decided to live life free from relationships. The one relationship in his past gave him his son, but also an ex-wife who made his life difficult. With the challenges of being a single dad and owning a business, he hasn’t felt like anything is missing, until Londyn. As their story progresses, and they fall deeply for each other, the tension of this story centers around Londyn’s need to leave Summers and continue her roadtrip to California. Will Londyn leave Brooks behind, or will she finally find the place with him where she can live her best life?
Two words about this story: Brooks Cohen. Seriously, Brooks Cohen. As the hero of this story, he is the perfect combination of alpha-male and empath. From one moment to the next, Brooks takes charge while connecting emotionally with Londyn at a level that she can handle. Londyn’s emotional walls are high based on her past. As the story progresses, it’s Brooks’s kindness and empathic nature that begin to break those walls down.
Londyn is Perry’s prototypical heroine: she’s internally strong, beautiful, and closed off. This is grounded in her past, a troubled one. With a heroine like Londyn, the story must show her unraveling; Brooks taking the time to peel back her layers is the gold of this story. As Londyn falls deeper for Brooks, as the reader, you need her to stay in Summers with him. We can see that he completes her in ways that her ex-husband could never. Summers offers her the perfect life, but, to build that tension, Perry keeps us anticipatory to the very end of the story. Together, Brooks and Londyn are like many of Perry’s story couples: pure romance gold.
There is a certain simplicity to Perry’s storytelling. I love how she develops stories that keep me reading to the final page. There is a quiet within her words that capture your heart and give you the feeling that you’re wrapped in a comfortable blanket. I look forward to reading her books because I trust she will develop beautiful stories about the foibles of human nature. There will always be a struggle, and the hero and heroine will have to work for their happy ending. But, in the end, all is always right in Devney Perry Land. Runaway Road is no different. It’s a little bit roadtrip and small town romance. I gorged on every part of this book and came out satiated on the love story of Brooks and Londyn. Perry has once again written a powerful romance of finding love after difficulties for her readers.
Devney Perry has this innate ability as a writer to capture the lives of people who have endured pain and trauma by controlling the variables of their lives. In many of her books, the key variable of control is relationships with others. Whether it’s through hermiting themselves away or erecting tall emotional walls, it’s these moments in her stories that offer the tension that we all love to hate. She crafts characters that feel real: they look like us (somewhat), they act like us, they feel like us. Therefore, we find bits of ourselves reflected back at us, and it acts as a mirror of the human condition. Perry’s newest story, Runaway Road, is no different. In the midst of the simple quiet of Brooks Cohen and Londyn McCormack’s story is a truth that we all need to love and be loved in order to live an abundant life. This truth is found in so many of Devney Perry’s stories, and it’s the reason that so many of us love her writing.
Runaway Road tells the story of Brooks Cohen and Londyn McCormack. Londyn has left her former life: a husband, a life abundant with riches, and her best friend. Why? Her husband is cheating on her, her abundant life is only abundant in its wealth, and she needs to move on, even if leaving her friend is difficult. When life gets difficult, Londyn has learned to keep moving in order to keep herself afloat. As she leaves her old life behind, she finds herself stranded in Summers, West Virginia, a small town filled with downhome, kind people. It is there, while she awaits her car repairs, that Londyn meets the local mechanic, Brooks Cohen. At first meeting, Londyn and Brooks are drawn to each other.
Brooks Cohen is a single dad who has decided to live life free from relationships. The one relationship in his past gave him his son, but also an ex-wife who made his life difficult. With the challenges of being a single dad and owning a business, he hasn’t felt like anything is missing, until Londyn. As their story progresses, and they fall deeply for each other, the tension of this story centers around Londyn’s need to leave Summers and continue her roadtrip to California. Will Londyn leave Brooks behind, or will she finally find the place with him where she can live her best life?
Two words about this story: Brooks Cohen. Seriously, Brooks Cohen. As the hero of this story, he is the perfect combination of alpha-male and empath. From one moment to the next, Brooks takes charge while connecting emotionally with Londyn at a level that she can handle. Londyn’s emotional walls are high based on her past. As the story progresses, it’s Brooks’s kindness and empathic nature that begin to break those walls down.
Londyn is Perry’s prototypical heroine: she’s internally strong, beautiful, and closed off. This is grounded in her past, a troubled one. With a heroine like Londyn, the story must show her unraveling; Brooks taking the time to peel back her layers is the gold of this story. As Londyn falls deeper for Brooks, as the reader, you need her to stay in Summers with him. We can see that he completes her in ways that her ex-husband could never. Summers offers her the perfect life, but, to build that tension, Perry keeps us anticipatory to the very end of the story. Together, Brooks and Londyn are like many of Perry’s story couples: pure romance gold.
There is a certain simplicity to Perry’s storytelling. I love how she develops stories that keep me reading to the final page. There is a quiet within her words that capture your heart and give you the feeling that you’re wrapped in a comfortable blanket. I look forward to reading her books because I trust she will develop beautiful stories about the foibles of human nature. There will always be a struggle, and the hero and heroine will have to work for their happy ending. But, in the end, all is always right in Devney Perry Land. Runaway Road is no different. It’s a little bit roadtrip and small town romance. I gorged on every part of this book and came out satiated on the love story of Brooks and Londyn. Perry has once again written a powerful romance of finding love after difficulties for her readers.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My hand pressed against my heart. She was stealing it, little by little.
What an absolutely smashing start to this series. This is so different to what Devney Perry has written before and yet it still allows for her brilliant talent to shine through. In this book we meet Londyn (and her best friend Gemma), two of six runaways who all met in Temecula, California and lived in a junkyard when they ran away from home. Londyn decides to leave her life in Boston, take the Cadillac she and fellow runaway Karson used to sleep in - which she had lovingly restored - and go on a road trip to give the Cadillac back to her old friend. Except fate steps in and one scraped Cadillac later and Londyn meets mechanic Brooks and her life changes forever. This is a story about falling in love. This is a story about being so very grateful for having food and clothes and a safe roof over your head. This is a story about found family. And this is a story about finding a life and finding a home. Absolutely loved it.
What an absolutely smashing start to this series. This is so different to what Devney Perry has written before and yet it still allows for her brilliant talent to shine through. In this book we meet Londyn (and her best friend Gemma), two of six runaways who all met in Temecula, California and lived in a junkyard when they ran away from home. Londyn decides to leave her life in Boston, take the Cadillac she and fellow runaway Karson used to sleep in - which she had lovingly restored - and go on a road trip to give the Cadillac back to her old friend. Except fate steps in and one scraped Cadillac later and Londyn meets mechanic Brooks and her life changes forever. This is a story about falling in love. This is a story about being so very grateful for having food and clothes and a safe roof over your head. This is a story about found family. And this is a story about finding a life and finding a home. Absolutely loved it.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A cute storyline that was predictable in a comforting way. The big plot twist felt really obvious to me. But that might just be because I’ve read too many books like this.
Small town romances are always made better by lovely characters, and this one had quite a few of them. I just wanted to give everybody a hug because they were all so dang sweet. Though it didn’t have any real surprises, for me, I still really enjoyed this read. It was perfectly wholesome.
Small town romances are always made better by lovely characters, and this one had quite a few of them. I just wanted to give everybody a hug because they were all so dang sweet. Though it didn’t have any real surprises, for me, I still really enjoyed this read. It was perfectly wholesome.
"The wind whipped through my hair as I sped along the highway. Just me and my cherry-red Cadillac. On a runaway road."
- Small town
- Single dad
- Divorced MCs
- Insta-love
- He calls her honey
- Dual POV
- Narrated by Maxine Mitchell & Jason Clarke
This was cute! After her divorce, Londyn sets off in her restored Cadillac to travel from Boston to California to reunite the Cadillac with her childhood friend. But she only makes it to West Virginia when she needs repairs.
This is where she meets the local mechanic, Brooks. The pair have an instant connection and when things keep happening to her vehicle prolonging her stay, they make the most of their time together.
While I liked their honesty and communication with each other, it was a bit too insta-love for me. Like she was changing her plans and basically moving in with the guy three weeks after officially getting divorced? I mean he was hot but slow your roll 😂.
- Small town
- Single dad
- Divorced MCs
- Insta-love
- He calls her honey
- Dual POV
- Narrated by Maxine Mitchell & Jason Clarke
This was cute! After her divorce, Londyn sets off in her restored Cadillac to travel from Boston to California to reunite the Cadillac with her childhood friend. But she only makes it to West Virginia when she needs repairs.
This is where she meets the local mechanic, Brooks. The pair have an instant connection and when things keep happening to her vehicle prolonging her stay, they make the most of their time together.
While I liked their honesty and communication with each other, it was a bit too insta-love for me. Like she was changing her plans and basically moving in with the guy three weeks after officially getting divorced? I mean he was hot but slow your roll 😂.
Loved it!
This was such a sweet romance book. Very simple in its conflict. It didn’t break my heart but I still loved the way it was written and the way the main characters came together. I’m looking forward to more.
This was such a sweet romance book. Very simple in its conflict. It didn’t break my heart but I still loved the way it was written and the way the main characters came together. I’m looking forward to more.