Comments on Book Binge: Review: Angel's Peak by Robyn Carr

But, Pat L., you see, the difference is women don&...

2010-03-17T05:51:58.118-07:00

But, Pat L., you see, the difference is women don't have pelvic exams for fun. Nor do they enjoy menstruation or 'dryness' (unless they're insane!!). Sex is something that expresses love, that is special, that is a good thing. Pelvic exams and all the other women's health aspects of the story are not things people do for fun!!

'The books' - I can't type on St. Patr...

2010-03-17T02:52:34.259-07:00

'The books' - I can't type on St. Patrick's Day!!

I would really like for you to post the reviews at...

2010-03-17T02:48:54.558-07:00

I would really like for you to post the reviews at Amazon!

I don't want to sound like I hate Robyn Carr - because I think she's an amazingly talented writer - but I would never have ordered this series (I pretty much ordered it all at once) if it weren't for the rave reviews. The books are promoted as romances. I didn't want to read about childbirth or women's health, and I actually put off buying to books for a long time because Mel was a midwife. Then the reviews convinced me to buy them anyway, and I always read books I buy.

I think there should be more balance in the Amazon reviews.

@Anon I'm nodding along with everything you sa...

2010-03-15T13:39:32.465-07:00

@Anon I'm nodding along with everything you said. The period thing totally icked me out.

@Zosia Maybe I'll copy and paste my reviews over at Amazon.

@Pat L. I wish I could find the humor in the health issues, but I can't. It just went too far in this book.

@Chantal Which book did you stop reading at?

@Kaetrin re: Moonlight Road. Be afraid. Very afraid.

I haven read Moonlight Road yet but I've read ...

2010-03-13T17:45:54.713-08:00

I haven read Moonlight Road yet but I've read all the others. Jack and Mel are my favourite characters and I still think the first 3 are the best books in the series.

I've been having trouble describing what it is that is bothering me about the latest 6 or so books in the series. I'm still not sure if I can do it, but I think it has something to do with that there is so much going on in any one book, so many people to "drop in and see", so many stories being told, that we only ever scrape the surface and conflict gets resolved seemingly very easily. What I loved about Virgin River was that the story was about Jack and Mel and them sorting out their relationship - that was the main focus of the story and I think subsequent books have tried to do too much and in the end have not done anything quite as well.

I'll still keep reading (for the time being at least) but I am hoping for a new book in this series which is mainly about only 2 people and where the conflict is realistically resolved (both in terms of time and events that take place).

@Casee - I'm a bit worried about Moonlight Road now!

I haven't been able to enjoy the newer books i...

2010-03-13T09:04:38.892-08:00

I haven't been able to enjoy the newer books in this series. Not because of anything specific other than the fact that they got boring.

I disagree with those of you who dont care for thi...

2010-03-13T05:49:12.358-08:00

I disagree with those of you who dont care for this series. I love it, love the characters, the stories and the small town, some of course I like better than others - the first three, Virgin River Christmas and Forbidden Falls are my favorites. Robyn never fails to disappoint me. And I hope she continues this series for awhile.

I find the health issues discussed gave humor to the story. I rather read that than some of the very crude graphic sex in some books - sex just for the sake of sex with no story. To each his own - different books for different folks - that is what makes the world go around - you know the saying, it would be boring if we all liked the same thing. It is wonderful we have such a choice of different books to read.

It would be nice to have a few more honest Robyn C...

2010-03-12T22:53:13.896-08:00

It would be nice to have a few more honest Robyn Carr reviews on Amazon. You write anything remotely negative about any of the books over there and you get ripped to shreds. I even had my spelling attacked – even though it was correct spelling!

It annoys me, because I bought the books based on all the glowing, gushing happiness on Amazon. I think there should be some more balanced reviews over there to warn people like me, who hate reading about women’s health, and who prefer some reality with their goo.

Oh, and in the next book, Jack tells Mel he misses...

2010-03-12T21:29:12.021-08:00

Oh, and in the next book, Jack tells Mel he misses her periods. He says he would have loved to have shown her how much he loves her body by having sex with her during her period.

This series was always about this stuff, but now in book ten Robyn Carr is running low on the ‘what women’s health issue shall we write about now?’ pile. She’s getting quite crude and disgusting. I’m not reading anything else that comes out from this series.

I mean 'any others', of course...

2010-03-12T18:33:13.636-08:00

I mean 'any others', of course...

Angel's Peak is the WORST Virgin River book by...

2010-03-12T18:32:37.384-08:00

Angel's Peak is the WORST Virgin River book by far. Mind you, the next one has the MEN sitting around discussing women’s ‘dryness’. Creepy, unrealistic, wrong, disturbing...

Robyn Carr loves writing about women's health more than she loves writing about anything else. She puts more effort into her childbirth scenes than she does anything others, and so many books have three times as many pelvic exams as sex scenes.

She's a good writer with a terrible focus.

There's no better way to be grossed out by a book than to read something by Robyn Carr.

@Kati In Moonlight Road, there is a lot of Mel and...

2010-03-12T13:04:39.074-08:00

@Kati In Moonlight Road, there is a lot of Mel and Jack. That's not a good thing. I didn't even like Mel in that book.

@Luci Really? I thought it started out fizzled.

I loved the first part of Angel's Peak, then i...

2010-03-12T07:58:16.390-08:00

I loved the first part of Angel's Peak, then it sort of just fizzled out, unfortunately.

Casee - I always look forward to your reviews of R...

2010-03-12T06:26:36.271-08:00

Casee - I always look forward to your reviews of Robyn Carr books. I gave up after Paradise Valley (I just needed Ricky to get his HEA, then I was done). But the thing that always struck me about Carr books is that everything is kind of amplified.

I haven't read the newest trilogy because I just got to the point where the sweetness overwhelmed by love of her writing style.

Now if I need a Carr fix I go right back to Jack and Mel's story. I just pull it on like a warm, fuzzy blanket.