3,5 starsThe Virgin River series was very much an in-medias-res for me. I started at book 13 which I liked and despite there being 12 other books before, it read easily as a standalone. I perused through the blurbs of all previous books and ended up choosing book 12, Wild Man Creek as my next read. Once again, no problem with getting into it. I really appreciate how Robyn Carr strikes a good balance between romance and an actual plot. The characters are likeable and their storylines are credible...

A another great addition to this series! These characters have become "family" to me. I love being part of each new romance as it develops & visiting with series characters in each book. Realistic plotlines, low-angst romance with a little sizzle, lots of emotion, awesome setting - all add up to great romance!

4.5 Wild Man Creek Stars Sigh this series just leaves me smiling and wanting more, more of these character more of Virgin River. Just more. <3 Colin Riordan… Another Riordan BROTHER, sooo right there I was all clapping hands and YAY’s! I really thought he was going to be a little more broken coming in to this story. Because of everything he has lost and all he has been through. Jillian kind of surprised me, I liked that she just knew what she wanted to do the moment she touched that earth. I ...

This was not my favorite. Maybe because I thought that the romance between the two leads (Jillian Matlock and Colin Riordan) was a foregone conclusion, so reading about how Jillian was being so strong and whatever made me roll my eyes. Or maybe I just read too many of these books back to back and it put me in a mood. Hard to know. I love romance novels. Absolutely adore them. But I think I can pinpoint that right around this book or the next I started to see a slide in the series and I was prett...

3.5 StarsI didn't like that Colin kept telling Jillian everything was temporary so she wouldn't get ideas or be hurt when he picked up and left for Africa. If you get involved with someone and there's a deep connection, you're gonna hurt when they leave even if they've spelled it all out beforehand! Fortunately, he came to his senses quickly and didn't completely screw up everything. I adored Jillian, and completely admired her work ethic and drive. She was happy in her own skin and I appreciat...

I really quite enjoyed this book. I have to pick and choose Virgin River books carefully, I don't read them all. I'm not going to lie, sometimes her heroines fall way short, are really quite bitchy. They are either really lovely, or really not lovely. I'm also not going to lie, I really, really don't like Mel. Why on earth would Jack, the perfect guy, fall for such a cow. She had about two tiny little bits of dialogue in this book and she managed to say something bitchy both times. After that li...

Unfortunately UnappealingJillian Matlock lived for her job as Vice President for Corporate Communications for a software manufacturer. So much so that she had no time or energy for a social life beyond the office. That's why she was dating a coworker and subordinate, even though it was against company policy. She had, in fact, been dating him for months, until she walked into the office one Monday morning and found out that her erstwhile boyfriend wasn't interested in her, he had just been setti...

Might as well shoot me because I'm going to say it again...this is my favorite book in the series. I really mean it this time! LOL It might have taken Robyn Carr 12 books to get everything just right, but she succeeded in doing so with Wild Man Creek. This is my favorite because:1. The heroine, Jillian Matlock, is NOT a bitch! She gets totally screwed around by her boyfriend and is forced to take a leave of absence from her job...a software manufacturing business that she helped build from the g...

Oh my! Colin and Jillian have made it to my new list...."favorite couples." Another hit in the Virgin River series....Colin's story started in an earlier book. Here we saw him post helicopter accident and drug addiction (he got hooked on his pain medicine for a short time). What a hunk of burnin' love! Be still my heart, this was one smokin' hot read. The tension was good, but when these two came together it was fireworks. What happened to Jillian (she was introduced in book 11) was awful, but s...

Superb! Made me bawl like a baby at the end.:) I got an ARC of this one from NetGalley, and I plowed through it in one day (haven't done that with a book in a looong time). After reading Promise Canyon and adoring it, I doubted that Robyn Carr could top it--or at least equal it. But she did! This one is in the top three of my favorites of the series (the others being Virgin River and Temptation Ridge). There's just something about those Riordan men... This is Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot "Wi...