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Title: Homeplace by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0-671-02706-9 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Love, Pacific Northwest Style
Comment: When New York attorney Raine Cantrell receives the urgent phone call to go home to take care of her grandmother and three foster children, she leaves immeiately. Fully expecting to be gone from her high powered job only a short time, Raine never expected to run into Jack O'Halloran in her home town of Coldwater Cove, Washington.
Jack and Raine immediately butt heads, but are attracted to eachother from the start. Jack is the town's sherriff and taking care of his 6 year old daughter, Raine has no time for men in her life. Her career has always been number one. Realizing that she is needed more in her hometown on Washington State's beautiful Olympic Penninsula, Raine takes a short leave of absense. Of course, she never expected to fall in love.
Jack and Raine make a wonderful couple in this charming story, but this is not all what this book is about. JoAnn Ross has written an incredible family trying to come to terms with past mistakes and problems. I highly recommend this book and am looking forward to the second in the series, Far Harbor.
If I have only one complaint about this book, this is it. Where was all the rain? Okay, it rained the first day when Jack and Raine met, but not much after. I'm from the Pacific Northwest and I KNOW that springtime in the Olympic Penninsula is rain, rain go away come again another day. Except it never goes away. That's it. Only one complaint.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sweet and Soothing
Comment: Given the present state of the world, it is very calming to curl up with a good, old-fashioned fairy-tale, and that's what "Homeplace" is.
JoAnn Ross has created a well-written, pleasant story of a hard-driving New York attorney, Raine Cantrell, who comes back home to her roots in more ways than one as she flies back to the Pacific Northwest to see to some family problems. Almost immediately, she encounters the town's sheriff, Jack O'Halloran, who she views as a small-town cliche. Raine's problem is that she is so self-protective, she views almost everyone as a cliche, rather than opening her heart enough to see their humanity.
Thus, we meet Raine's flightly wiccan mother, Lilith, who does things like conducting a pagan ceremony in the nude (to Raine's horror); grandmother Ida, a feisty physician who refuses to get old; three troubled teenaged girls, one of whom is pregnant; all from Raine's initial rigid point of view.
The gradual melting of that rigidity, combined with the inevitable (and very sexy) romance between Raine and Jack, makes for a satisfying, heartwarming read. I recommend it to anyone who needs to take a break from stress, and wants to read a truly nice love story.
The end of the book contains a preview of an apparent sequel, "Far Harbor," which is a favorite among... reviewers. I definitely will read that too, and am glad to have discovered JoAnn Ross!
Rating: 2
Summary: Plotless
Comment: This book was rather boring in comparison to many of the other writers you can find in this genre. The writing was good though, and by that I mean the characters were fairly well-rounded and weren't just talking in cliches and mindless Harlequin-type sentences. The biggest problem, in my opinion, was that this book lacked a plot; I suppose the 'plot' is about Raine coming home to stay, but that wasn't well developed. In fact, the book didn't really get off the ground at all. The writing was ok though, and I'm still planning to try another Ross book - perhaps one that is more recent to see if she has improved.
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Title: Fair Haven by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0671786113 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Legends Lake by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0671786172 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Woman's Heart by Joann Ross ISBN: 1551668491 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: River Road by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0743436830 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blue Bayou by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0743436822 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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