Review: Well-written and Interesting
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2012
Carter Crow is such an interesting character. He has deep problems stemming from his Marine career and his wife's death. His way of handling his demons is to stay on the run and keep to himself with only his dog as his confidant. When he goes to the  mountain village of Lupine, his defense mechanisms began to break down, and Lila helps chip them away, but it's still a battle.Don McQuinn has done a masterful job. I found his novel well-written and intiguing, not as much from what was happening as from the characterizations. I thought Crow and Andy, the pastor, were particularly complex and fleshed out. Van was also believable, and we've all met men like him. Lila didn't quite seem as real to me, but it wasn't a spoiler. Crow is a good person, and this gave the novel hope throughout, so it never became dark.I found very few errors. "Val" was used twice instead of "Van," "Peirs was used instead of "Piers" once, and I caught a missing comma in a compound sentence. The descriptions were beautiful, but they were a bit overdone at first. Some almost bordered on purple prose, and it stalled the movement of the story in a couple of places. There is a little profanity, but it is clean otherwise. This is not a light read, but it is better than most of the romances that are.