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Virgin River by Robyn Carr

14 reviews

antidietleah's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Death

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Gun violence, and War

lucyatoz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Virgin River by Robyn Carr is another book that I have read this year (It Happened One Summer being the other one) which is a sexy romantic novel, although this one has more hard-hitting issues being tackled and has been made into a Netflix series. 

Mel Monroe has been through the mill as a nurse practitioner in a busy Los Angles hospital, happily married to Mark, an emergency medicine doctor, who dies in tragic circumstances. Making the decision to move on, she goes to Virgin River, a rural small town and almost immediately regrets it.

However, when a new born baby is left on the door step of the clinic and home of grumpy Doc Mullins, she finds a reason to stay, if only for a few days, whilst she cares for them. And having local barman and former marine Jack Sheridan just over the road with a listening ear and broad shoulders to cry on, as well as making her rent-free cabin shipshape to live in, she might just need to reconsider her decision...

I borrowed a copy of this book from Taunton library and listened to it on cloudLibrary. I read this for prompt A is for Alpha for the 52 Book Club mini challenge May 2024. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Grief, Drug abuse, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Miscarriage, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Minor: Toxic relationship and War

ordinarypickle's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Feels like it was written in the eighties and lightly updated to the early aughts. I did like parts of it, but overall this had problematic stuff that's awful hard to look over.

Lots of casual misogyny, heavily defined gender roles, copaganda, poor treatment of houseless folks, overblown reactions to weed, and an underage sex scene between a 14&16yo that was was VERY descriptive and felt gross (I fast forwarded through it, what I did hear made me feel incredibly icky).

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Content Warnings

Minor: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Death

taystecka's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism

bakergirlsbooks1999's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Grief, Infertility, and Gun violence

kellyofcali's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Delightful romance! I've admittedly watched and enjoyed the TV show, and so I happily signed on to read the books, which definitely take the plot and characters in some different directions - so a fun way to be in the same universe with some newish story. The book was overall super enjoyable and I'm on to the second - my main issue is the way the male characters sometimes talk to and think about women, not because it's necessarily unrealistic, but it makes them less likable to me (ex. lots of use of the word "fanny"). Otherwise, a fun read and quality romance!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content, Infertility, Alcohol, and Misogyny

appleberry's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Infertility, Medical content, Addiction, Gun violence, Violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death, War, and Alcohol

shyleek's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I picked this up for my alphabet challenge after watching the show.

It was right on par with the show. I liked it but I didn't love it.

It had great characters and so much happening. I guess I'm just not much of a romance reader. When I do read romance I like spicy and smutty and the spicy scenes in here were very poorly written with words like "fanny". 

I definitely want to continue the series just to find out how certain things play out but I'll take a break before the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Medical content, Infertility, Gun violence, and Violence

passionatereader78's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I enjoyed this complex beautiful story! When Mel's husband dies unexpectedly, she sells everything and moves to Virgin River. She is going to run a medical practice in the mountains. Mel finds out the people of Virgin River are not what she was expecting. She learns that she can't run from her problems. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Grief

couscouschanel's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I had a really good time reading this book but if I'm being honest, it's not exactly a good book. The pacing for the first two thirds of it is perfectly slow burn and then suddenly all hell breaks loose towards the end. The sex scenes leave a lot to be desired and the way the author writes about attraction is.. a choice. Her descriptions of women and men are equally bizarre and sexualised and/or misogynistic in a way that feels like a horny teenage boy writing fanfiction. Actually, much of it felt like wonky fanfiction. But regardless, there's still a lot that's compelling about the storyline and the characters and there's a great balance of angst and mush that made it an enjoyable read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy