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Review: Wish You Were Here
- By Kelly Moran
- Published November 13, 2008
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Kelly Moran
Reviewer Kelly Moran Kelly is an author of several published books, recipient of an Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement, was inducted into the 2006 Who's Who Book of Americans, a Finalist in the 2008 Best Books Awards, and a Finalist in the 2009 Indie Excellence Book Awards. She is an active Romance Writers of America member and is a former staff writer for Poetic Monthly Magazine.
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Author: Lani Diane Rich
ISBN: 044661825X,
Publisher: Forever (Hachette Book Group)
Summing up Wish
You Were Here, by Lani Diane Rich, in
one word is endearing. Lani Diane Rich is a best-selling author, with
such titles as: Crazy in Love, The
Comeback Kiss, Maybe Baby, Ex and the
Single Girl, and Time
Off For Good Behavior. She resides in
New York with her family.
Freya Daly has developed what she likes to call “a condition.” She couldn’t quit crying. She is so very close to getting everything she wants- to take over her father’s Boston real estate business when he retires, and now this “condition” was ruining everything, including her reputation. Her father sends her to Deer Creek, Idaho to purchase a run-down campground to prove her capability, the last hoop in a long line of trials. The problem is, Nate Brody won’t sell. Nate promised his dying father that he wouldn’t sell the land. Freya finds herself enchanted by Nate and his ten-year-old daughter, Piper, making her hoop even harder to jump through. As they search for a valuable heirloom, a treacherous secret from generations past is about to put them all in danger, forcing Freya to choose between her old, comfortable, boring life and the love she never dreamed imaginable.
This is my first time reading a title by this author, and I very well might pick up more. Lani Diane Rich has a candid way of laying out raw emotions and practical characters that you can relate to. She has a clever and witty sense of humor which had me laughing aloud quite a few times. The characters were realistically flawed, including the secondary ones. I particularly like the ending, where you got closure without changing who they were and altering the personalities greatly. I love a good romance that is not over-gushy and littered with cliché’s, to which she proves immeasurably well here. The setting was richly portrayed, making you want to jump right in. You can tell that she thoroughly enjoyed writing this book.
Wish You Were Here, by Lani Diane Rich, is a humorous, charming, and satisfying read. Lani Diane Rich is emerging on the romance scene and I see great things in the future for her. Readers will delight in this light-hearted page-turner that will leave you with a smile on your face and restoration in the contemporary romance genre again.
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