Redwood Bend (Virgin River Series #16)

Another good chapter in the series

I always love reading a new Virgin River novel and catching up with the old characters as well as meeting new ones. I liked the story of Katie and Dylan, but I keep thinking the last couple of books haven't had as much "meat" to the stories as in books past like Virgin River or Temptation Ridge. The story is satisfying, but it was a really quick read for me and almost seemed rushed. I wish there had been a little more character interaction as they got to know each other, rather than narratives glossing over their dates and activities. All that said, I still can't wait for the next novel in the series.

7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Worth the time

Wonderful Book I enjoyed reading. kept me entertained all the way through.

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Another nice Virgin River romance.

Katie Malone has moved to Virgin River to be near her big brother Connor. Katie and her twin boys were forced to move from their home when Connor became the sole witness to a murder and was threatened by the killer. Katie was widowed when her husband was killed overseas in the Army and she wants to settle down and rebuild her family life. On her way to VR, she gets a flat on her SUV and is rescued by a group of bikers, one of whom she recognizes as a former child star she had a crush on.
Dylan Childress left Hollywood when his grandmother Adele swept in and took him to live with her. Dylan was a big TV star whose best friend had just died at the age of 15 from a drug overdose/suicide attempt. Living with his grandmother taught Dylan how to have a normal life away from his fame obsessed mother and step siblings. Dylan owns an air transport business in Montana and is in VR for a holiday. Neither he nor Katie want to start a relationship that will go nowhere because of their different goals in life, but they can’t keep away from each other. It seems to be a romance that is doomed to cause unhappiness and misery but who listens to their head when the attraction is so strong….
One of the things I like about Ms. Carr’s Virgin River books is the slice of life aspect they have. As in the real world, life goes on for all of the secondary characters while the hero and heroine are going through whatever angst they are into. The community plays a part in the story and many times is instrumental in having the couples work out their issues. Dylan and Katie found normalcy and continuity in Virgin River which made it possible for them to come together when their own insecurities would have kept them apart. This book has a satisfying and realistic ending that fits in with the rest of the series.

4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

Virgin River Is A Great Place To Visit

Ms Carr is one of my favorite authors and she did not disappoint me with this book of the Virgin River Series. I felt there was romance in this book more than some of the other books. Ms Carr can really write romance when her storyline calls for it! I liked the plot of this book and was entertained throughout the story. I always like to hear about or from characters from past books. I think you will enjoy this book!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Katie Malone finally feels that she is getting her life back on

Katie Malone finally feels that she is getting her life back on track after her husband’s death, the burning of the family hardware store, and hiding out in Vermont to avoid being a target in a murder case. Now, she and her twin sons can finally join her brother, so they will be near family again. On the way to Virgin River, California, her SUV has a flat. It’s raining, her cell gets no reception, and she can’t budge the lug nuts. Who comes roaring up but motorcycle riding Dylan Childress? A spoiled child actor who was pulled away from L.A. by his actress grandmother, he feels that his life is missing something, but is absolutely against the idea of marriage and family. Too many of his family members have been divorced and remarried with way too many blended families. In the end, the attraction and caring between Katie and Dylan is strong enough to overcome his fears. The down-to-earth townspeople of Virgin River are there to provide help and humor throughout the story.

Katie and Dylan are likeable characters and their attraction makes for some steamy reading. Her respect for what he sees as his limitations, and his attempts to go beyond them endear them to the reader. Situations with her sons, a mama bear, Grandmother Adele, her driver Randy, and Jack and Preacher at the restaurant/bar in town add fun dialogue to the story.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

It has everthing you need. Love. friedships, family. and exciting times.

This is a Virgin River Series book. I have read all series. I found the first book in the Lamesa, TX resale library dept. I started hunting all the books I could find. Over all I rate this author in my opinion and my best friends opinion the greatest writer of time of these book. I feel like I know all the characters like family. You should know that I am 81 yrs young and I have been a reader all my life. It is my greatest pleasure, and I have to be careful with my buying. Thanks for asking me to do this.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Redwood Bend..another great book in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Series

Another enjoyable read from Robyn Carr. Bringing characters together from other books is nice and keeps each book entertaining.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Redwood Bend Review—Robyn Carr Good points: Great writ

Redwood Bend Review—Robyn Carr

Good points: Great writing, real characters, a hot romance, true love, a special setting
Bad points: A touch of blandness compared to previous novels
Highlights: Character development
Lowlights: Issues are resolved without much conflict or suspense
Series: Virgin River (see Note)

Redwood Bend is the latest in the Virgin River series, following Hidden Summit, Conner and Leslie’s story. Katie Malone is Conner’s much-loved younger sister and a military widow with 5-year-old twin boys. When she meets Dylan Childress on the road to Virgin River, she is very attracted to him, but determined to keep her head. She is nonetheless very tempted to dive into an undoubtedly temporary romantic fling. Dylan Childress is sure he has himself all figured out—his uniquely unstable past and uber-dysfunctional family make a stable relationship impossible. But his intense relationship with Katie throws him into confusion, and Dylan begins to reassess his life.

From the first book I read by Robyn Carr, I was captivated by her ability to transport the reader to a time and place, a community in northern California that’s too good to be true, but still comes across as utterly real. Robyn Carr has a genius for plotting around realistic emotional issues that her fully developed characters deal with. Character growth is the key factor here. Her novels are like a vacation—to a place full of natural beauty that would set off my asthma and send me straight to the ER in real life! Okay, it’s a fantasy, a completely homogenous community where everyone’s straight, white, young, healthy, and practically every new Virgin River resident seems to have a healthy bankroll (with a few exceptions), but that’s okay. I’m a dyed-in-the-wool city girl, and I love every minute of my time in Virgin River and Ms. Carr’s other richly imagined locales.

NOTE: I have never been a fan of fictional series, but, perhaps because I started from the beginning, I adore this one. The proof is that I’m always sorry to read that last page of every book. If you’re new to Robyn Carr’s novels, congratulations. You have a lot of great reading ahead of you. Sure, you can just dive into this book. But if it bugs you to constantly read little tidbits about characters from previous books, start at the beginning of the series. You won’t regret it.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Must Read

If you love the rest of the series, this is a must. Focuses on the story and brings in some of the characters from the series just a little.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Another winner in the Virgin River Series!

Redwood Bend is #16 in the wonderful series by Robyn Carr. The story surprised me & went places that I didn't expect. I knew the h & h would end up together but I was pleasantly surprised how they got there.

You can read this as a stand alone book, however, I would strongly suggest that you read them in order prior to this one. This is a lot of other characters in this book who have been in the previous ones. Knowing their backstory will give the book much more meaning & depth.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

exc read

Redwood Bend by Robyn Carr
Katie has packed up her house in VT, under the witness protection plan and headed out with her 2 kids to go live near her brother Conner who had been
a witness in a murder. Things were just not working for her in VT. Her boyfriend she found out was gay.
She treats the boys to Disney then heads up to Virgin River where her brother lives. Just in the northern section of CA she gets a flat and several bikers
stop to help her. Dylan does most of the work and even gives her his jacket to keep her dry from the rain.

Dylan and his buddies head out once a year to see the country on their bikes, stay at Virgin River a few days, fish, eat at Jack's and go for bike rides.
This book hits home as 3 family members and myself flew into LA and took Pacific Coast Highway up towards Washington. I can almost pinpoint exactly where
she had the flat. We drove that road and can relate totally to places along the side where there is NO guardrail, no protection if you should slide and end
up down a 100+ foot cliff side of the mountains.
She gets settled in and enrolls the boys into a summer program and she is invited to tour on the back of his bike.
He's decided to stick around a few more days than the others, to check out options for his aviation company. He can also revert back to acting in LA.
They spend a lot of time together while the boys are in the program and when they are doing other family things he gets to know the boys and enjoy time with them and with her brother.
His company is going downhill and fast, as are other aviation places. If only he can make it last a bit longer. Most of the people that worked for him have moved on - to bigger cities where they can get a job but he hates to throw the towel in. Not only has he looked around Virgin River but the larger cities til he contacts an acting agent.
'People step up for each other' perfectly sums up this community.
He has to deal with the multiple family members that had different fathers, 4 in total. They all want a part in a movie. He flat out tells them no. He is missing Her so bad. He heads back putting everything else on hold but her brother beats him up at the bar. He decides to stay a few days but she's down with a bug. He pitches in to help around the house and with the boys.
Where they are staying there is a continuous threat of a mother bear and her 3 cubs. They wander all over the yard and brush nearby. Tom, a neighbor that will be handling the nearby orchard is back from the war and has offered to contact the warden so they can maybe relocate the animals with no harm to them.
bears and a missing child, can't be a good thing. The community comes out to help. And the job offer isn't what he was thinking about
at all.
From here, things go terribly wrong with Dylan and katie, or is there hope of a reunion after things are divulged.
Will things ever be right again for them? One of his family has arrived to really get the pot boiling hot.
I rate this book a 5. Love hearing about the flying and the business of acting, what to do when you come across wild animals-new things for me. Love this community.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Loved it like the rest of the Virgin River series! Read it in 3 hours!

Redwood Bend. By Robyn Carr. MiraBooks, 2012. 384 pages. $7.99

Readers met army widow, Katie Malone, when her brother Connor was forced to go into hiding after witnessing a crime and for their safety, Katie and her five-year-old twins got sent to Vermont. Katie got a job working for a pediatric dentist with whom she had begun to think she could build a future. Well, that didn't turn out exactly how she planned it; first, she thought he was painfully slow about moving things to the next level - they hadn't even kissed! Then, after many attempts to move things along, she had to learn from his sister that he was gay and was trying not to bring attention to himself in his small town, which made her realize that she'd been out of the dating scene since the death of her husband before the boys were born. Katie realized her boys need a father figure and her brother Connor, her only living relative, was the only choice, so off they went to Virgin River.

The roads to Virgin River are not the friendliest to drive on good weather, let alone in the rain that was coming down during Katie's drive up the steep curves of the mountain roads. This is how she ended up with a flat. Normally, she could handle it no problem, but the lug nuts always gave a small woman like her problems; Katie knows this could spell trouble. Just when she thinks she will be out here for a while, a group of motorcycle riding men arrive; Katie's first thoughts - a gang. Luckily, they offer to help; the one with the dreamy blue eyes immediately catches her attention. Dylan Childress, former Hollywood child-star, current owner of an airplane charter business, is there to lend a hand alongside his buddies. Dylan's business is suffering and he's in the area to rethink things, a motorcycle trip with friends is just the thing he needs to recharge.

All roads leading to Virgin River; it seems as if Katie and Dylan will continue to run into each other. At first they're both hesitant to get in too deep; Katie has her boys to think about and Dylan is hung up on the fact that he is not relationship material because of his troubled childhood and bad memories involving his family life - there's also his business to think about and a possible return to Hollywood. Both have a lot to work through, but the sparks between them are flying. With the town of Virgin River as the setting, along with all the residents as the cast, including Katie's protective brother Connor, this 18th installment of the series is an enjoyable read that draws readers into a charming community of caring people who are there for one another. Robyn Carr creates yet another story that shows characters who survive hardships that life throws at them and manage to find love, even if they think they may not deserve it.

I have really enjoyed this series, having read books 1-15 in one week. This book, like the others, has drawn me into the world created by Robyn Carr and made me want to continue reading nonstop until I found out how the story ended. I really like how the characters have real-life problems and how their struggles come with life lessons. Nobody is perfect in Virgin River, and that is why I think I enjoy the series the most.

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Lia

So wanna play wit water she rises the water in the lake n maks a slide out of ice gets on n slides down wohooi

Good

A good summer read poolside.

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Very good! you have to read this book!

I absolutely love the Virgin river Series! I can't wait to read the next one as soon as I finish one. I want to move there!

Great book very entertaining

REDWOOD BEND is my second reading by this author The first was the Christmas story that practically brought tears to my eyes. REDWOOD BEND is a very beleivable story because it takes place in the here and now. You can believe that with all the men and women who have given up their lives in war the main figure Katie lost her marine husband in war and she was left to give birth to her twin boys and trying to raise them on her own. Its a fantastic story of love and perseverance. I think I will try somemore of Robyn Carr's
virgin river stories. I usually don't read too many romance stories but her books gives you something to think about.
Good job Robyn keep it up.

highly recommend

great as always---can't wait for next book

very good books

I love the books from this author

Another great book in the series! I feel like the people of Vir

Another great book in the series! I feel like the people of Virgin River are my family and friends! I truly hope the author will continue on with the series! This series is definitely worth your time!