Vacation to Virgin River

My review of Robyn Carr's latest, Sunrise Point, is running this weekend on AAR, my birthday weekend, which makes the book doubly special to me.  Sunrise is Tom Cavanaugh's story, the Tom who was featured in the book right before this one, Redwood Bend, about biker and former child star Dylan.

While I can't sit up long enough to write a lot about Sunrise, I did want to mention how wonderful it was to take a break from recovering from surgery to take a virtual vacation to Virgin River.  Tom and Nora's story helped smooth the time between pain pills and will do much, much more for readers who don't need pain relief.  'Nuf said.

Redwoods Romance

A month or so ago, my husband and I stayed at an Elim Grove cabin on the site of Raymond's Bakery outside Cazadero, California, right in the heart of redwood country, in Northern California not far from the coast.  All I could think at every turn in the bend was that any minute we would be smack dab in the center of Virgin River territory.

Well, we didn't run into Jack, Preacher, Mel or any of the other Virgin River characters who are so wonderfully portrayed by Robyn Carr that it seems right to think of them as real.  They are definitely as real to me as some of the other people I read about in the news but have never met.

At any rate, my review of Carr's latest, Redwood Bend, appears today, and just looking at the cover of the book, I already miss our mini-vacation at Raymond's.