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    Keepsake: True North, #3
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    Keepsake: True North, #3

    By Sarina Bowen

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    There's a first time for everything.

    Lark Wainright used to be fearless. Her life was a series of adventures, each one more exhilarating than the last. But her recent overseas adventure was one too many. Now she's home and in one piece. Mostly. But her nights are filled with terror.

    When her best friend offers her a stay at the orchard in exchange for help at the farmers' markets, Lark jumps at the chance to spend fall in Vermont. But her nightmares don't stop. Desperate to keep her fragile state a secret, she relies on the most soft-spoken resident of the Shipley Farm to soothe her when her dreams prove too much.

    Zachariah is a survivor, too. It's been four years since he was tossed aside by the polygamist cult where he grew up. He's found a peaceful existence on the Shipley's farm, picking apples and fixing machinery. But getting thrown away by your own people at nineteen leaves a mark on a guy. He doesn't always know what to make of a world where movie quotes are the primary means of communication. Before hitchhiking to Vermont, he'd never watched TV or spoken on the phone.

    Actually, there are a lot of things he's never done.

    Zach and Lark slowly grow to trust one another. One night they become even closer than they'd planned. But Lark may still be too broken to trust anyone. When she pushes Zach away, he will have to prove to himself that he's good for much more than farm labor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuxbury Publishing LLC
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781942444237
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    • 4/5
      When Lark Wainwright is asked to spend the autumn working at her best friend's farm, she is excited. She has been through a traumatic experience and needs to get away from her parents well-meaning but smothering care. One of the other workers, Zach, has also been through his own traumatic experiences, and he and Lark form a bond amidst the apple orchards on the farm.Contemporary romances often rely on tropes - nothing the matter with that - so I liked that the author didn't use the normal ones here. Both Zach and Lark are damaged because of very real, but different experiences which make this story more interesting for me. Zach is a sweetheart, and Lark's character is well-done also. In fact, I liked every character excepting Gilman. It's the first book I read by this author, but now I want to go back and read the other books in the series.
    • 5/5
      Very well written, I really liked the characters of the novel.
      Beautiful love history. I cry, I laugh, I really enjoy reading this book.
      ❤️
    • 3/5
      There was nothing wrong with this book, but for me, there was nothing particularly right about it either. I didn't find it particularly romantic but I did find it somewhat heart-warming. It was sweet, but it was kind of - meh - boring for me.

      I don't think it would be for everyone. Zach is your sweet virgin hero, and he's honest and noble and...well...have I mentioned how these heroes work for me? They don't. Zach was still close, to be honest, because patience and warmth are sexy traits, but it was his voice. It vacillated between the "ohgeegollyshucks," and more modern/typical. And he was deeply Christian. That's not a problem per se, but it doesn't really enhance my enjoyment of the book to read scripture here and there from the hero's perspective. As far as heroes go, I'd strictly friend-zone Zach and probably try to avoid him generally. So there's that.

      Lark was cool, but she was going through some stuff and so her development and character was largely built on that. It was hard to get a sense of her for a while due to that, but she was definitely the more interesting of the main characters.

      I've been reading this forever, so obviously there was not a real hook into the story for me...And the worst part as that I thought it would mean I was done with the series-or I might have DNF'ed. Turns out there's a fourth book. Oh, that feeling when you think you've wrapped a series but no.

      That's all I got.