Review: Soap opera vibe with a hint of supernatural!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
Trudy, like so many young women, is trying to navigate her life and steer it into the picture perfect island of love and happiness.  So it makes sense that on a day that would otherwise be considered bad, she comes across a captain, or rather, The Captain.  She has a gift for premonition, and foresees a message, “My fight to live,” that leads her on an internet search for its meaning.  What she finds is a blog titled the same as the aforementioned message.  Who she finds is Rick, a broken man who turned to writing to help his healing process.  The two quickly become friends, and soon find themselves meeting face-to face-after months of communicating by e-mail.Things happen fast—as with most love stories—and the two quickly recognize that they love each other.  But an accident involving Trudy’s mother ends their paradise in Nova Scotia, and suddenly they are miles apart again.  Rick isn’t going to let Trudy go that easily.  He boards a plane to New York City to convince the most important person in his life how he feels.Rick never makes it.  Trudy must turn to her gift, her “vibe”, to change the fate of her relationship with the one man who was worth it.There are millions of romance novels in the market.  Or, maybe it seems like that.  So, it would be misleading to say this book was significantly different from any number of love stories you could find in a bookstore or a library.  What I will say is that this story tries to be different, and that grants it some merit other stories don’t deserve.The star-crossed lovers’ storyline has been done so often that it’s expected when crafting a tale of romance.  This author does not aim to disappoint, so that element is there.  But, she adds a more supernatural twist to the plot, and then it becomes something more along the lines of “If Stephen King and Nicholas Sparks had a baby”.  Don’t worry, there’s nothing scary or tear-jerking about this story.  It is a combination of genres with something in addition to the romance aspects.Then, there are the erotic love scenes, which may be a bit much for the prudish (yeah, I called you prudish) sort of reader who prefers far less detail, and much more left to the imagination.  These scenes were cheesy, but not terrible.  There was a better way to write them, but they certainly maintain elements that may stir some titillating feelings within a reader.Overall, this was not a bad romance novel.  It definitely has a soap opera type vibe with a hint of supernatural that may or may not be your cup of tea.  But, it should entertain, nonetheless.