Virgin River Book review May 2020

Let me first say I binged watched the the whole series before I knew there was a book in existence. And if you equally enjoyed the netflix series as much as I did, You need to get your hands on the novel,ASAP!. Trust me on that once you get to Chapters nine through thirteen , You will be feeling lots of emotions that you can't contain yourself and saying lot of things out loud in reading those pages because I did. And what happened in- between those pages weren't in any of those episodes and there were some spicy moments but there was also some heartbreaking moments as well.It was just full of information about the characters and introduction their backstory differently, more in depth.

I live in a small town that I love but Now I just want to jump into the pages if I could and be in Virgin River forever. I love every single character written they all seem they have so much behind them with their own individual story that I can't for them unfold later down in the line in other books.

Now that I got that out the way back into the actual review of the novel. In my opinion I would give the book a five star rating because once I got hooked after a few chapters. The only reason , I think the few beginning chapters weren't more impactful for me as a reader. Is because of Hope's Character description threw me off a bit because I already had her pictured in my mind from the show. But besides that little thing, it's just my opinion as reader.

Mel is one lady I won't get out my mind and time soon, I wish I had her as friend. She's one strong woman that was built for what she went through and more beautiful because it's her story. I can relate to her heartbreak and struggles for opening up because she had a strong love with someone. She seems to be the perfect mid wife that every mother to be ,need in their lives and during their delivers Then for it all to be taken away like it was, I wouldn't blame her for choices after that heartbreaking moment in her life.

Jack Is another story, he's the type of man that would take a bullet for everyone in his current life. And being a Marine, he's built to protect as if it was in his bloodlines way before he ever joined up besides joining up five times in a row. Like Mel he need a change of life and found Virgin River to a perfect place to have his business while living in peace.

The connection between the two completely unexpectedly connected deeply then either one of them expect to , where they were in our separate worlds. I think Mel and Jack were meant to be together despite all the hurt and challenges they faced before they met.

Mel losing her husband to a horrific accident and her love of her forever gone, knowing she couldn't have children. Jack going through numerous war's, a loss of a soldier under his command and fighting his own internal battles. They have their own way of understanding each other's walls and each other's hardships that no one will ever understand.

Just like Mel said, " Something is the river" Virgin River is a place that heals the folk in the town , coming or going. Towards the end of the novel, I can sense the actual moment when they both in each other they were each other's "Homes" despite everything in their past and what was happening around them, they were meant to be. And maybe , I shedded a few tears during that chapter alone... because honestly I felt that moment in my own soul as if the moment was in the same room as me.

I can't forget to mention Doc was an interesting character to listen to and understand. You might not always treat an old dog , new tricks always. but like doc he is loyal stubborn and eventually shows the respect , he knows that is earned. Stubborn has any wise man that has been doing his job alone longer than anyone in his opinion. Giving Mel the hardest time to work with him and yet it turned out she taught him a thing or two, even if he couldn't say it outloud. Just a secret between you and I, I think Doc saw Mel and thought she had a gift , stubborn like him from the very start of meeting her. Also like she's own of his own , watching her help patients in the office and going out of way to help the town.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel so much, I can't wait to reread it again; But we all know I got a list to finish of unread books in my library.I find myself smiling at the lines between Mel and Jack that made wish for a moment I was Mel.

" This idea to marry you, to have my life with you.. it's not something I feel like I have to do. It's what I want" - Jack Page 371

This line is probably one my favorite lines, that I ever read and it spoke so Powerful for Jack to say to Mel. And for her to actually hear it and feel it through her body. It gave me chills.

"You never think a man will notice. Not things like that" -Mel Page 347

And this one just made me laugh because I couldn't agree more with Mel on that Statement alone.

There is so many pages throughout the novel, I would love to share and give my thoughts on them. But I would be giving away to much of the book and it's goodies for other readers. And I almost did but I will try to hold back the rest for my notebook. In all honestly this novel is one for the ages and an Unexpected love story that caught me off guard emotionally as a reader. To one reader to another, keep the tissues handy, a box of candy on hand and above all please take your time enjoying every chapter because once it's over you will be looking for more. Especially when you see they very last page. I said, "I wasn't ready for it to end, yet".

Enjoy this one ! Link for the novel, down below!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/virgin-river-robyn-carr/1100348660

With my love always,

Misread

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She made the First move.. He made the last

Prolong: Honestly, I didn’t want to finish this story or publish it but it has been on my heart to finish it. I had it finished in my head but the words just wouldn’t come on the paper the way I wanted from my heart. And this love story is about being at the distance with someone and trying to build with someone while making mistakes that can’t be taken back. This is where it all lead to, she did make the first move and he made the last move. I originally wrote a section of this story two years ago and it was titled “You made the last move “. I couldn’t finish it then and it was a struggle to find the words on paper for it all to make sense, taking weeks to think and rewrite it out and finally letting it been seen by the world is another story all together.

They met two years ago, she made the first move and they started admiring of each other work then becoming quick friends but feeling changed during that first year for her in their relationship. She made the first move April 6th, 2018 towards him impulsively and unexpectedly and she was glad she did since that moment. He stayed through the good times, the bad times but he left once before, he disappeared for two weeks. He knew then she would have jumped on a first flight to see him back then. This time around, she made him leave forever after her birthday and with her last words, " I have been taking to another". She confessed everything to him because she said she would always be honest with him. Right or wrong of her choices, she made them, she spoke her truth. She knew if she didn’t tell him right then and there, he will find out anyway from her own mouth later, she rather tell him while she’s hurting already then to relive it all over again. She gave him the option to leave, no questions asked since everything else in her life is destroyed already and he left that moment, out the door. She knew he will never return even if she didn’t make her mistake. And two months later she regrets it all but it had to happen then in the future. Days later, she’s sitting in the Porsche dealership waiting on her car to be finished being serviced for hours and they finally call her name finally. She walks over and looks over the paperwork and the charges, she notices his name appearing as the mechanic. She couldn’t believe the odds and the coincidences of his name showing up, taking her back for a moment; she signs her name underneath his. Walking out to the parking lot that day, she decided to check her messages and saw nothing but a song called, “What could’ve been” by Gone West playing on the stereo at the same moment.

On this Leap year afternoon, she sat and reminisce about their past and happy moments in her days after he left Jan 14th, 2020. She pulled out the note, she wrote when he left the first-time dated August 2018. As she read the written page allowed in her empty studio, she ran her fingertips over the title over a few times, "You made the last move". Closing her eyes, she titles her back for a brief moment and let it all sink of her repeated reality. Thinking of the first time he called her, made her heart jump and skipped a beat or two. she was nervous as a cat but he would never know that. When she saw he was calling while she was working at her office, butterflies instantly in her stomach and she didn’t know quite know what to say at first but letting him to take the lead. She remembers saying, “It’s about time you called”. And he replied, “You know I figured it was about time we talked on the phone since we have been texting a for a long time and I wanted to hear your voice”. She was impressed but he would never know that and she always wondered why he took so long to dial her number when it has been his hands for year, his best mate must have convinced him to finally hit the call button. She remembered smiling ear to ear that day and calling her sisters right after that phone call end but he would never know that either. As she’s daydreams away a little longer, she remembers seeing him in his red plaid shirt for the first time and thinking, “He’s an amazing talented man”.

Before this continues just know she’s done with it all, the game, the idea; everything. She misses him every day and yet she knows everything had to happen for a reason. She loved him since the day she said, “Hello handsome”. Took her months to stop crying through dawn each night and accepting it all and now she’s slowly removing him from her reality, her memories of him from her phone. She knew, the second she typed the last message to him before she hit sent, he was gone. He’s done and gone just like she predicted he would after he asked, “What else is going on for you to be more upset?” Someone that she thought was a good friend to her and treated her kindly was the type of person that wanted to break her heart and teach her a lesson that she needed to learn. She never blamed him because she would have done same when he left that moment, when she confessed what she did and what she’s going through.

She remembered the day; she wrote those first two paragraphs with the fly of her blue pen and now knowing why she could never finish that story as she tries to finish it now in the exact place where it all started 1,095 days ago and 5,271 miles apart with the same page in her hands. Wondering if she even should continue it as she watches a young couple meeting for the first time at the place, where she said she would want to meet him first across from her studio. The universe tells her not to finish it but it needs a proper ending to it; she thinks with a background to it than just a reason for them meeting and just ending. Or maybe she never wants them to end, even on paper because then it comes tangible and real in her own hands.

She knows, she broke his heart for the second time in her life and the idea of her in a single moment. She’s never broken a heart before. She’s always been the one getting her heart broken and what she did broke her into a million pieces. Days before he finally admitted he wanted something more, a chance to meet, a chance to touch, a chance to see each other within breathable distance. He asked her to meet in person on her next trip out of the city where she would be in the exact place few months later. She remembered being happy reading that messaging blinking across her screen unexpectedly on her birthday. All she ever wanted from, the start and she threw it all away with her confession a week later. She didn’t want their beginning to start knowing she betrayed him in the end. She wouldn’t be able to look at him in the eye knowing that and he deserved better than what she gave him in return. Because she kept asking for more in the past and he always said, “We are at distance and in two different places”. She decided too not to hold him to that dream of them as much as she had from there on. She enjoyed his company, his character, his banter each day and his good morning notes. Every day she expected him to say, he met someone else when things kept being the same between them; she never expected herself to be that person in a million years but she was. She knows who she is and during that time frame she walked away from her own logic and messed everything up for herself but she starts putting herself together slowly each day, alone. Working herself into every project she could to not think until she physically too tired to sleep.

A week later she leaves one last message to him, knowing he will never read it and never respond anyway. She knew she was going back on her word of talking to him again but his last word of “I don’t know what to say” wouldn’t leave her heart on her quiet days, no matter how much she tried to block those words out. On her trip to another city for the most important business meeting of the year, she allows herself to think about it in the LA traffic that lasted an hour longer than expected. She starts to type every single thought of him, she ever had and how sorry she is and she hopes he finds a great woman that unconditionally loves him with every fiber of her being. “I regret everything and I can’t believe I did this to you and I see who I am now and how you see through your eyes. Hope you find a woman that loves you and never hurts you like I did, you deserve an unconditional type of love and you are amazing man. And you create beautiful moments for people that leave people speechless”. Sitting in that back seat of a ford escape, she had a few tears, explaining her life falling part to a complete stranger and she said, “ I am going to act perfectly okay because I built my own bed and I have to lay in what I have done and that’s what I deserve.” Four days later she went to delete it and move on forever but he read it. She didn’t think she could move from her chair that moment even if there was earthquake around her studio and she said out loud, “He saw my words” tears slipped from her eyes that moment without her realizing she was in tears. It took her another day later to erase that paragraph because she said exactly what she wanted to say and there was no point letting it sit there for another moment torturing herself thinking he would response or question herself on why she said something in the first place.

Looking back at the two young lovers across the street and reminisced about their discussion of their first potential meeting “Date”. Right before she starts to remove the few photos, she kept of him, three weeks later, she started to stare into those chestnut colored eyes. She said in a wispier, “You said once you will never leave and you also never said if you ever wanted me in the first place. You would say gorgeous you worry too much and you always finding problems “. Looking at his photo for a little longer, she knows he probably has someone new else by now or had someone in-between. She has to accepted it all and there is a reason behind it all.

Coming back to her reality she smiles with her eyes and heart and looks back at that soprano mug photo and looked beyond the mug to his eyes. She sent their story out to the world without giving it another look over and she removed what’s left of him from her phone. And whispered, “We are two strangers again and I hope you are truly happy and get everything you desire in this life. And if you talk to me again or you don’t it was nice to know you” Folding the white lined paper back up and slides it back into the red and white striped enveloped and puts the envelope back into her black leather writer's bag. She gathers the rest of her belongings and heads over to the coffee shop across the windy street. And purchases two brownies and their next drinks on her, for that sweet couple forming in the corner booth as she wished that was her future. She heads out the door to the train station across the street with her one-way ticket to her next adventure. She knows love does exist; people make things work together does exist. And she knows, she won’t go seeking out for love in her phone anymore. One day love will find her and that love won’t be easy but it will be the right amount of perfect.

Epilogue: You made the last move – Original note

The Original note she wrote during the time he left the first time and she could never finish it then. He told her once he wanted to see it and she should finish it someday. She told him, “It hurt too much to finish it and I know why because it was about you”.

I risked my heart for you, thinking of when I shouldn’t have gotten attached to you; barley even knowing you. Months of getting to know you and one day you were gone. Disappeared without warning I cried over you, when I shouldn’t of; but it was bound to happen in my mind, there’s no way you could enjoy my company any longer. Things moved fast unexpectedly between us and I was falling for you without knowing it from the very beginning. You knew everything about my past and I still know little about you besides your family and that cutie that I grew to love. Messaging you a few days later to see if you were doing okay at least. And I didn’t hear a sound from you. In the beginning of your silence made me think more about my own thoughts of you. All I could was stare into my phone and wonder about you and cry too many tears than I would like to admit to anyone including myself. But I couldn’t bring myself to message you again, I must have been ghosted. I felt safe with you and that’s hard to even bring myself to admit that from all the other ones, they never made me feel safe as you did.

In quiet days, the tears became less but my mind still wondered during my work hours, “What I was to you?” in your mind. Getting lost in my wandering mind can lead to endless unanswered questions. “He is okay? Did I matter just a little bit? Or did I get used for the hundred time? Did I miss the signs, he gave?”

I miss those little messages blinking on my phone during a meeting would brighten my day without reading it. The day there was silence from you was the day I wanted more and move into a different direction with you. I had to let that go and I know that is the right move in my head. Two weeks go by then you reappeared, I didn’t know what to think or what to do believe or how to feel about either. Hearing you were fine was just enough for me. Come to find out in the end, you had a phone issue for two weeks straight.

You know where am I, that's where I will be and stay. And I will always wonder if you ever told anyone about me and if all of us were suppose never really begin. I know from the beginning where I stood about you and I know the ending it all is all on me, not on you. You know where to find me, even with a parachute, checkmate.

Author Note : I hope you enjoyed this piece and I can't wait to hear your feedback.

The next piece is called , "If I was gone today " and will be coming out soon

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First love shouldn't end

I started this series nine days ago , I couldn't stop reading,I even I was less on my phone than ever, (actually I forget I had one)! Three books later and I need more , I am emotionally invested in knowing what's next for Peter Kavinsky and Lara Jean. Jenny Han took me back in remembering my own high school experience and remembering all the boys I had a crush on.

To All the Boy's I've Loved Before

The beginning of a love story with letters that should of never been sent out in the first place leads to unexpected relationship and unexpected feelings.

The talk of school with high school drama; we can all relate to being the eye of everyone. Plus an unexpected kiss from another. Lara jean and Peter find out they fit together more than they ever thought besides faking their own relationship. Little love notes to their honest deal, they fit like a puzzle with out realizing it even if Kitty had a hand in it all , made Lara experience life than seat at home with nothing to do.

P.S I Still Love You

A letter of forgiveness being in start of real relationship between the two. Jealousy come with a bumpy ride. And tag of new characters and an old childhood game that gives you all feels of being a kid. Falling in love with each character like John McClaren is hard not to do like Lara Jean did. Pulled heartstrings, learning things about each character from childhood memories. Can't forget to mention Mrs. Stormy, a lovely lady that I wish was my own fairy godmother!

Always and forever Lara Jean

Pulls more heart strings than the first two novels and more tear-jerking moments throughout the novel. Sometimes things are planned but plans change unexpectedly.

Things have a way of working out in the world of chaos called senior year. Lara jean coming out her shell and being free was enjoying to read. Little tests of love through and through, only making them stronger. Finding that perfect chocolate cookie recipe, thanks Lara. Underneath the night sky; growing a deeper connection before being apart for college, I like to think there is more coming for lara Jean and Peter Kavinsky.

After reading this series in Nine days, like I said before I need more, I am curious about the pair than any other characters. Reflecting a first love is beautiful going through first's together with someone is beautiful even through a first fight. Learning about someone from their deepest thoughts to their favorite dessert. From reading, I found myself laughing along and yet Missing the days where the biggest problem in life was what to wear. This series is definitely a must read and feeling fuzzy feelings of remembering that first crush. I also I think A first love or crush , you will never forget their name or the first time you saw them. Right? I remember my first crush pretty well.

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