Again.īut the series is totally a soap opera, because a couple of novels down the road, that same infertile woman with the magic pregnancy then has to have an emergency hysterectomy and becomes obsessed with adopting a baby–while having a biological toddler and infant. Victims of abuse and/or rape regain their confidence and are protected and secure in the love of…yeah, that would be the right man. And this happens so often in the region that we meet three other women on the same position in book 1 ². Infertile women become pregnant by the right man–after years of fertility treatment with the wrong partner, of course. People who are together stay together, and all obstacles are overcome. However, and contrary to most soaps (or what little I know of them, as I’ve never watched more than a couple of episodes of any, in any of the places I’ve lived), this one is a “feel good” soap. To begin with, there’s the fact that these books are, at their core, a long running soap opera (which is rather funny, since a couple of the minor characters are two middle age friends who have watched the same soap opera, together, every week day for over fifteen years). Since it is not a review, please do keep in mind that there are plenty of spoilers for the series within–and a lot of pointed criticism. In the end, I can’t recommend any of them wholeheartedly, but neither can I condemn them as wallbangers/DNF. There are many things that bother me about them–some of them fairly subtle, some of them quite in your face–but then there are others that resonate with me in a very positive way.
My feelings about these books are rather mixed. This is basically a bunch of incoherent musings inspired by this and this conversations over at Dear Author, and the fact that I found myself re reading the first few of the Virgin River books. I’m not going to give a summary, or even the back cover blurb, for any of the novels in this long ( oh my good lord, looooooooooong!) series ¹.
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