The Parable Series, Book 3
Harlequin
December 18th, 2012
978-0-373-77720-4
Contemporary/Western Romance
Mass Market Paperback
Reviewed by Dawn (love2read28@gmail.com)
Obtained by Library
Sheriff Boone Taylor loves his little town of Parable,
Montana and being the sheriff is just icing on the cake. What he misses the
most are his boys that his sister and
brother-in-law are raising after Boone’s wife’s sudden death years before. Now
Boone needs to step up to the plate and become the father everyone knows he can
be for his two sons after an accident lands his sister’s husband in the
hospital. Nervous but hopeful, Boone finds being a dad is hard work yet he
finds that he loves it as well. What Boone doesn’t realize is that the woman
next door, that city slicker, Tara Kendall, has stolen his heart when he wasn’t
even expecting it. Now these two need to find a way to deal with their changed
relationship even as they find that love can indeed happen a second time
around.
Linda Lael Miller is the queen of western romances and she
delivers a wonderful, at times emotional, story of two lonely people who find
that their relationship has just changed into something so much more. With a
down-home type of writing style, likable and believable characters with stories
that are emotional as well as delightful, Ms. Miller delivers another winner in
her Parable Series with BIG SKY RIVER. We met Boone and Tara from the first and
second books (Big Sky Country & Big Sky Mountain) and the reader is treated
to a town that is just as delightful as it is enjoyable. Though the community
of Parable isn’t center stage, it still delighted me whenever the author went
over to different parts of the town such as the water tower and Boone’s desire
to get rid of a problem sheriff that was mentioned in past books. Ms. Miller is
a wonderful storyteller who knows how to draw her readers in, give them
something to fall in love with and leave them aching for more.
The characters from the first two books continue to pop in
even as you find yourself meeting some new ones as well. Ms. Miller does a
wonderful job in creating some amazing characters to fall in love,. They are
quite life-like and have vulnerabilities as well as flaws that every human has
in real life. The connection between Tara and Boone is wonderfully electric.
Tara resists falling for someone like Boone. Boone refuses to see that there is
more below Tara’s surface. These two will find that falling in love is just the
tip of the iceburg for them. There are layers upon layers as readers find out
about Boone’s wife, her death and what made him so leery of falling for another
woman. We also learn about Tara’s disastrous marriage and her heartbreak that
she never told her friends about. Each page as the author slowly uncovers these
layers is like a rich tapestry being uncovered one frame at a time and Ms.
Miller does it beautifully.
I am eager to see what happens next in Parable, Montana and
hope the wait for the next book isn’t a long one. If you enjoy sexy, brooding
cowboys who wear jeans very well and the women who can tame their wild hearts,
then you need to grab any of Linda Lael Miller’s books as she delivers stories
packed with heart, heat and love. BIG SKY RIVER is a story that you will want
to read over and over again.
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