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The second novel in a brand-new contemporary romance series by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lisa Kleypas - Nora Roberts meets Marian Keyes.
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Format:Paperback
Over the last few years my reading habits have definitely changed and I'm finding that I'm reading a lot more romantic fiction novels than before. Also I'm finding that I enjoy reading series of books especially when they are set in specific locations such as Lisa Kleypas' Friday Harbor series.
As Rainshadow Road was the second book in the series, I naturally had to buy and read the first book, Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, before I started reading this one. Although they can be read as standalone books as completely different storylines but some of the characters, the Nolan family and Maggie, do make appearances in both books.
Lucy Marinn is a talented glass artist who moved to San Juan Island to live with her boyfriend Kevin. She thinks she has the perfect life; a job she loves and living with the man she's one day going to marry. So she is caught off guard when Kevin tells her that he's no longer in love with her and has fallen for someone else ... her sister Alice!
From the start we can tell that the relationship between the two sisters, Lucy and Alice, is not particularly close and that Alice has been spoilt by the whole family ever since a childhood illness.
When Kevin and Alice announce their engagement, they are initially surprised at the disapproval of her parents. So Kevin decides that Alice's parents would accept the situation more if Lucy was in a new relationship herself so he asks an acquaintance, Sam Nolan, if he'll date her little knowing that Sam had already met Lucy and was interested in her anyway.
Sam bumped into Lucy when she was at her lowest point, hours after being told by Kevin that he no longer loved her, and he felt an instant attraction to her. They soon start to see each other but on a 'friends with benefits' basis as neither want are committed relationship. But can this really work?
The characters in this book are everyday people that you can relate to and can't help but fall in love with. Throw in a little bit of magic to the story, not too much to put me off, and you've got the perfect recipe for a relaxing read on a Sunday afternoon.
I'm pleased to see that the next book in the series, Dream Lake, is due out in August and the first chapter can be found at the back of this book. It sounds like another interesting read involving Alex Nolan and a ghost...
As Rainshadow Road was the second book in the series, I naturally had to buy and read the first book, Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, before I started reading this one. Although they can be read as standalone books as completely different storylines but some of the characters, the Nolan family and Maggie, do make appearances in both books.
Lucy Marinn is a talented glass artist who moved to San Juan Island to live with her boyfriend Kevin. She thinks she has the perfect life; a job she loves and living with the man she's one day going to marry. So she is caught off guard when Kevin tells her that he's no longer in love with her and has fallen for someone else ... her sister Alice!
From the start we can tell that the relationship between the two sisters, Lucy and Alice, is not particularly close and that Alice has been spoilt by the whole family ever since a childhood illness.
When Kevin and Alice announce their engagement, they are initially surprised at the disapproval of her parents. So Kevin decides that Alice's parents would accept the situation more if Lucy was in a new relationship herself so he asks an acquaintance, Sam Nolan, if he'll date her little knowing that Sam had already met Lucy and was interested in her anyway.
Sam bumped into Lucy when she was at her lowest point, hours after being told by Kevin that he no longer loved her, and he felt an instant attraction to her. They soon start to see each other but on a 'friends with benefits' basis as neither want are committed relationship. But can this really work?
The characters in this book are everyday people that you can relate to and can't help but fall in love with. Throw in a little bit of magic to the story, not too much to put me off, and you've got the perfect recipe for a relaxing read on a Sunday afternoon.
I'm pleased to see that the next book in the series, Dream Lake, is due out in August and the first chapter can be found at the back of this book. It sounds like another interesting read involving Alex Nolan and a ghost...
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I enjoyed reading this book so much and didn't want it to end. Over the last few months I have reread most of it half a dozen times.
I love LK's books and this one is up there with her best.
I love LK's books and this one is up there with her best.
Format:Kindle Edition
Always been a Lisa Kleypas fan, and this is no exception. Great interaction between characters, while not overshadowing their struggles with their own personal luggage. A great contemporary romance, following Friday Harbour, can't wait for the third book. However, there just isn't that touch of magic you get with her historicals, can't wait for the next to appear with hopefully a whole new family! Write faster please!!
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Really enjoyable contemporary romance book.
I was a bit dubious of picking this book up. I've read Lisa's Historicals and love those to bits but i've not read any of her contemporary romances. Read more
Published 25 days ago by UK book worm
rainshadow road by lisa kleypas
Bought this for the wife. she absolutely loved it. kleypas at her romantic best, she didn't want the book to end
Published 1 month ago by frankbof
Well worth the read!
I've read all Lisa Kleypas books and have enjoyed them all, historical and contempory. This particular series is going from strength to strength, introducing magic is a new... Read more
Published 1 month ago by L. P. Mcgowan
Enjoyable contemporary romance
Enjoyable contemporary romance, however I do agree with one of the other reviewers in that I found the magic element a trifle strange, almost as if bunged in as an afterthought. Read more
Published 2 months ago by LEP
FIRST IN A NEW TRILOGY - COMPLEX AND HONEST
The first novel in the new Friday Harbor Trilogy is a complex, honest, eventually heartwarming story narrated by multi-gifted Tanya Eby. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Gail Cooke
Oh Lisa, Lisa
Lisa Kleypas is one of my favorite authors - usually. Her last 3 contemporaries were fantastic and even Xmas at Friday Harbor was pretty good but Rainshadow Road is just...... Read more
Published 3 months ago by hannah2
Amazing read
Rainshadow Road is the second book in the Friday Harbor series and the first that I have read. It could definitely be a stand alone novel, you wouldn't even know there was supposed... Read more
Published 3 months ago by carly
Magically Beautiful!
Rainshadow Road has one of those gorgeous covers which invites you in, and makes you want to curl up in front of a fire (or lounge on a sunbed in your garden) before you start... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kirsty at Book - Love - Bug
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