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Welcome back to Thunder Point! Return to where it all began, in the first book of the beloved series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. You’ll fall in love with this small town filled with people and stories you’ll never forget.
Nestled on the Oregon coast is a town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land’s unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he’s been left an old friend’s entire beachfront property, he finds himself with a community’s destiny in his hands.
Cooper has never been a man to settle in one place, and Thunder Point was supposed to be just another quick stop. But Cooper finds himself getting involved with the town. And with Sarah Dupre, a woman as complicated as she is beautiful.
With the whole town watching for his next move, Cooper has to choose between his old life and a place full of new possibilities. A place that just might be home.
Originally published in 2013
Read Online The Wanderer Thunder Point Book 1 eBook Robyn Carr
"Normally when you read a contemporary romance you find a solid story line that is centered around one specific couple. There are secondary characters who enrich the story, but most scenes and themes revolve around the main couple. The Wanderer by Robyn Carr does not do this. It read very differently from other books in this genre that I have read, and, to be honest, it took me a long time to get used to this different way of story telling. Instead of feeling as if I was reading a novel, it almost seemed as if I was in the middle of a script for a long running television drama. After reading the book blurb and the opening chapters it seemed as if I would be reading the story of Coop and Sarah, but these two don't even really meet until the book is half-way done. Even after their initial meeting they don't dominate the story. There is also the story of Mac and Gina. There is a high school bullying story. There is a semi-mystery of whether or not Ben, the owner of the quasi-bait shop that Coop has now inherited, actually accidentally died in a fall or was he murdered? There is a lot going on. A lot. It didn't ever really get messy or confusing. Like I say, it just felt as if I was in the middle of a television series with lots characters who were equally interesting and important to the story line. It wasn't bad at all. I just didn't find myself enjoying this way of story telling. Others might not be as put off by it, so even though it didn't work for me, I'm not necessarily shying away from recommending it to others who might find this unique way of telling a story to be intriguing.
The story centers around a little nook of a town in Oregon. It seems as if this series is a spin-off of Robyn Carr's popular and highly rated Virgin River series. I have not read that series, but I could tell that there were moments that tied back to that other series, things that would have been more significant if I had read it. But it is not necessary to have read that series to jump right into this one. Hank Cooper, or Coop as he is known through the book, has just inherited a valuable spot of beachfront property on the Oregon coast from his friend, Ben. No one knows exactly why Ben gives it to Coop, and no one ever really figures this out by the end of the book. Coop decides that the least he can do is to fix the place up nicely before he sells it. But then maybe he doesn't really want to sell it. This is a big part of the book ... and yet it is not a big part of the book. That is kind of how this story reads. There are tons of intriguing questions and ideas that are thrown out, but the story never really digs very deep. The themes are just there without any true resolution.
After half the book is finished Coop meets Sarah, a fellow helicopter pilot who has just gone through a horrible divorce and wants nothing to do with men ... or at least she does not want a relationship with men that could end up hurting her. That could have been an interesting story line as well, but I never felt as if it was explored nearly enough. Their relationship seemed to steam along at breakneck speed. Even Coop, with his wandering nature, seemed super quick to throw that all away after a few encounters with Sarah. Sarah was hesitant to form an attachment to Coop ... until she wasn't. Even by the end of the book I felt as if I hadn't really gotten the chance to really work through these issues with these characters. Like a TV episode, it seemed as if the book ended abruptly with a "until next week" sort of ending.
To be honest, I thought that the relationship between Mac and Gina was way more interesting. Two great friends brought together because their daughters are friends. Two people who made bad choices when they were teenagers and are unable to move on with their lives because of those mistakes. I was happy when their story took center stage, but it was disappointing that they were only a segment of the story. Because the author kept jumping back and forth between story lines I could never get fully invested in the people I was coming to find interesting. Even the "villain" family in this story was cheated out of an interesting story. They could have been written as much more interesting, but they were relegated to almost a cardboard villain cutout part of the story. It made them boring, and they seemed to be more of a plot device to bring tension (sort of) to the story.
Perhaps all of these issues would not be a problem when the entire series is read as a whole. Maybe, like a television series, the characters and story lines just get better and better as you spend more time with them. Maybe that is the way that her previous series worked as well, and many, many people loved that one. I just found that I didn't enjoy this way of story telling myself. But this is a nice story with good characters, so you might feel differently. For me ... three stars."
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The Wanderer Thunder Point Book 1 eBook Robyn Carr Reviews :
The Wanderer Thunder Point Book 1 eBook Robyn Carr Reviews
- I downloaded this book because I loved the Virgin River series by Robin Carr. Thunder Point is located in Oregon, and Cooper visited Luke in Virgin River. Ben, Luke, and Cooper served in the Army together. There are a bunch of new characters, a mystery surrounding Ben's sudden death, drama, and couples pairing off.
I liked Cooper, especially with how he was with Landon. Sarah was a hard worker dealing with the cards she was dealt to the best of her ability. Mac and Lou really make it work with a full house. Gina was easy to like and cheer on. Promising start to this series. - I especially enjoy stories that have realistic characters who are trying to get past the effects earlier relationships had on their present lives. In this book, there are a man who has never been able to make a commitment and a woman who was badly hurt by being cheated on and deserted by her husband who could not be monogamous. The second pair, who could not find a way to be together, were the policeman whose wife had left him and their 3 children and his best friend who had gotten pregnant at 15 and never had a serious boyfriend after that. Both of them became close friends but worried about hurting their daughters who were best friends.
This novel presents a sensitive approach to families and their love and support of each other while bringing the problems and issues they face. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and the town of Thunder Point while feeling for characters who are shown working through their problems to find love and personal satisfaction. - I love a good love story with lots of HEA's and this book fit the bill! This story starts out with a drifter named Hank Cooper who comes to Thunder Point to visit a friend and old army buddy, Ben Bailey. Instead of fishing and hanging out with his friend, Cooper finds himself mourning Ben's untimely and questionable death. Much to Cooper's surprise, Cooper also learns that Ben named him as the beneficiary of his a run down bar/deli and 200 acres of beautiful beach front property. Since Cooper has never put down roots, he plans to renovate the bar/deli and then put it on the market for a quick sale and then leave Thunder Point. But things don't always go as planned. When Cooper sees a local teenage boy named Landon, being harassed by a group of kids on the beach he makes his presence felt to disperse any trouble. This won't be the only time that Landon needs Coopers help with this same group of kids As it turns out, Landon has an older sister named Sarah that catches Cooper's eye. Sarah is newly divorced and not looking for a permanent relationship so Cooper fits the bill. Right? Yeah, right, ok. Like I said, things don't always go as planned. This story also has a lot of side romances that had me really enjoying this book. There's no surprise in the ending but getting there was great fun!
- Normally when you read a contemporary romance you find a solid story line that is centered around one specific couple. There are secondary characters who enrich the story, but most scenes and themes revolve around the main couple. The Wanderer by Robyn Carr does not do this. It read very differently from other books in this genre that I have read, and, to be honest, it took me a long time to get used to this different way of story telling. Instead of feeling as if I was reading a novel, it almost seemed as if I was in the middle of a script for a long running television drama. After reading the book blurb and the opening chapters it seemed as if I would be reading the story of Coop and Sarah, but these two don't even really meet until the book is half-way done. Even after their initial meeting they don't dominate the story. There is also the story of Mac and Gina. There is a high school bullying story. There is a semi-mystery of whether or not Ben, the owner of the quasi-bait shop that Coop has now inherited, actually accidentally died in a fall or was he murdered? There is a lot going on. A lot. It didn't ever really get messy or confusing. Like I say, it just felt as if I was in the middle of a television series with lots characters who were equally interesting and important to the story line. It wasn't bad at all. I just didn't find myself enjoying this way of story telling. Others might not be as put off by it, so even though it didn't work for me, I'm not necessarily shying away from recommending it to others who might find this unique way of telling a story to be intriguing.
The story centers around a little nook of a town in Oregon. It seems as if this series is a spin-off of Robyn Carr's popular and highly rated Virgin River series. I have not read that series, but I could tell that there were moments that tied back to that other series, things that would have been more significant if I had read it. But it is not necessary to have read that series to jump right into this one. Hank Cooper, or Coop as he is known through the book, has just inherited a valuable spot of beachfront property on the Oregon coast from his friend, Ben. No one knows exactly why Ben gives it to Coop, and no one ever really figures this out by the end of the book. Coop decides that the least he can do is to fix the place up nicely before he sells it. But then maybe he doesn't really want to sell it. This is a big part of the book ... and yet it is not a big part of the book. That is kind of how this story reads. There are tons of intriguing questions and ideas that are thrown out, but the story never really digs very deep. The themes are just there without any true resolution.
After half the book is finished Coop meets Sarah, a fellow helicopter pilot who has just gone through a horrible divorce and wants nothing to do with men ... or at least she does not want a relationship with men that could end up hurting her. That could have been an interesting story line as well, but I never felt as if it was explored nearly enough. Their relationship seemed to steam along at breakneck speed. Even Coop, with his wandering nature, seemed super quick to throw that all away after a few encounters with Sarah. Sarah was hesitant to form an attachment to Coop ... until she wasn't. Even by the end of the book I felt as if I hadn't really gotten the chance to really work through these issues with these characters. Like a TV episode, it seemed as if the book ended abruptly with a "until next week" sort of ending.
To be honest, I thought that the relationship between Mac and Gina was way more interesting. Two great friends brought together because their daughters are friends. Two people who made bad choices when they were teenagers and are unable to move on with their lives because of those mistakes. I was happy when their story took center stage, but it was disappointing that they were only a segment of the story. Because the author kept jumping back and forth between story lines I could never get fully invested in the people I was coming to find interesting. Even the "villain" family in this story was cheated out of an interesting story. They could have been written as much more interesting, but they were relegated to almost a cardboard villain cutout part of the story. It made them boring, and they seemed to be more of a plot device to bring tension (sort of) to the story.
Perhaps all of these issues would not be a problem when the entire series is read as a whole. Maybe, like a television series, the characters and story lines just get better and better as you spend more time with them. Maybe that is the way that her previous series worked as well, and many, many people loved that one. I just found that I didn't enjoy this way of story telling myself. But this is a nice story with good characters, so you might feel differently. For me ... three stars.
