No Greater Loss Review for RORR
No Greater Loss by Diane Craverwww.samhainpublishing.com
Dr. Jennifer Hunt suffered a great loss when she lost both her husband and baby son only months apart. That was fifteen years earlier but she had never got over it and she feels it is too painful to love again.
Luke Brunsman is introduced to Jennifer at a friends store and is immediately attracted to her but she keeps him at arms length. They set up a business relationship and as they spend more and more time together and get to know each other love starts to bloom.
In the midst of this Jennifer’s call in radio show ends up influencing a young girl and sets off a vengeful reaction in her partner. Can Jennifer and Luke over come their past hurts, new obstructions, and lots of memories to build a new life together?
I really wanted to like this inspirational book. The main story subject is heart wrenching and it is interesting to see how the heroine overcomes her past hurts to move on. Unfortunately, there are parts of this book that get decidedly preachy (there is a difference between inspiring and bang you over the head). There is also way too much stuff jammed into this book and I started to get distracted trying to keep track. If the author had stuck to the storyline with Jennifer and Luke I think there would have been enough there to hold the reader’s interest.
Ms. Craver is very good at writing characters and her book is filled with them. I do like them all, especially Uncle Ryan, I just think there were too many in one book. As much as I liked Luke and Jennifer I was completely thrown when Jennifer tells Luke how she found her mother dead - all he does is say sorry and then hands her some paper to write down what she wants for her house. Umm, that was rather dramatic for you to just brush off there! How can you be starting to fall for someone and callously disregard something that major that happened in their life?
As I said, I really wanted to like this book and I did like certain parts but other parts just read way too heavy (and I am a Christian). While trying to keep up with Luke and Jennifer, I got sidetracked by Stevie, Marie and Zach and wondering why it now appeared that there was a new couple when it wasn’t appropriate (I don’t want to give anything away but it was confusing). Also, I don’t think that a thirty-three year old woman would refer to people as a “dear man” or a “dear girl”, it sounds decidedly like something my Nana would say.
In conclusion, this reviewer feels that this story could have been really good if it left out a lot of the side stories and stuck to the main love story. There is some great stuff here, maybe it just needed to be broken into several stories, with less preaching and more love and inspiration.
I give it 3.5
Labels: Rating 3.5
posted by Michelle @ 10:45 a.m.
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