Friday, August 28, 2015

Wildest Dreams - Robyn Carr

Wildest Dreams
Robyn Carr
Mira, Aug 25 2015, $8.99
ISBN 9780778317494

In Thunder Point, Oregon, single Vietnamese-American mom Lin Su Simmons works long hours as a nurse caring for ALS sufferer Winnie Banks; while she also raises her ailing teenage son Charlie.  Moving next door to the Simmons is world traveling triathlete champion and Neighborhood Club franchise manager Blake Smiley.  He became an endurance runner as a means of surviving a nasty neighborhood while a child.

Blake likes the mom and son next door and both feel the same way about him.  As Blake falls in love with both Simmons, they reciprocate.  However, Lin Su becomes angry and upset, even cursing in Vietnamese, and more protective of her child when she learns of the secret her new neighbor (and former love interest) and her son concealed from her. 

The ninth Thunder Point Oregonian romance (see One Wish and A New Hope) is an interesting family relationship drama that refreshingly focuses on an adopted Amerasian and those she loves.  Lin Su owns the storyline, but realistically is unsympathetic due to her understandably rigid, judgmental personality. 


Harriet Klausner

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