Another vacation read – I read this one on the beach and in the jacuzzi tub. Such a great place to enjoy a good book!
Always Valentine’s Day by Kristin Hardy (SSE 1952)
(2009, Contemporary Series) 5/1/10
Grade: 3.5
Larkin Hayes is on a cruise to Alaska to reconnect with her father after his latest divorce. But she keeps running into Christopher Trask, a goat farmer from Vermont, and his widowed aunt, Molly. After the cruise, they all meet again in Vermont – and Larkin finds that goats are more interesting than she’d expected.
This was a surprisingly fun and charming book. The characters were interesting and well written, and had more depth than you might expect. Even though the story was a bit predictable, the author does a good job with the two settings (the Alaskan cruise and the Vermont goat farm) and creates believable conflicts between the characters. The only negative was that a lot of secondary characters are shoehorned into the first section of the book, presumably because they appeared in previous stories. But they mostly disappear once the book gets going. Overall, an enjoyable read.
I debated whether to give this a higher grade, but it wasn’t that memorable. A week later and I can barely remember it. But I enjoyed it while it lasted.
Karen Wheless
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