Fourteen-year-old Charlie Simmons is looking for answers about his family
history. His mother, Lin
Su, doesn't want to give them to him. She is only trying to protect him, but
he just won't let it go. Lin Su is a nurse taking care of Winnie, who is
struggling with ALS. Lin Su is proud of taking charge and never showing
weakness. WILDEST DREAMS, Book 9 in the Thunder Point series,
takes us back to Thunder Point to get caught up on our old friends.
Blake Smiley is an Ironman, a triathlete, who just had a house built in
Thunder Point - right next door to Grace's. He and Charlie
instantly hit it off, but Lin Su is extremely suspicious of Blake. When Blake's
actions puts Charlie's asthma condition at risk, Lin Su goes a bit crazy and
now it is a battle of wills between Blake and Lin Su. Blake's immediate
attraction to Lin Su is supported by the fact that he is ready to settle down
and find "the one," and is even happy to find his one plus son, but it is
being dragged down by a tremendous amount of baggage carried by Lin
Su.
I found myself cheering for Blake through out the whole story and wanting
to smack some sense into Lin Su more than once. She has serious
insecurities regarding her ability to trust, to love and lose, and huge
roadblocks regarding her son's health and activities, her own history, and
the conditions of her employment.
WILDEST DREAMS is a wonderful book from start to finish. We see how
Grace, Iris and Peyton, who are all pregnant at the same time, are coming
along with their pregnancies. And we catch up with Winnie, Grace's mother,
who is struggling with her ALS, and her lifelong friend Mikhail, who will not
leave her side. We catch up with a lot of the inhabitants of Thunder Point
and that is just what readers want in Robyn Carr's books.
I love the Thunder Point series by Robyn Carr. WILDEST DREAMS is
the best
book in the series but then again, I said that about the previous eight
books. I love the relationship and banter between Charlie and Winnie. I
was reading and giggling through many pages. You can never go wrong
with a Robyn Carr book and WILDEST DREAMS does not disappoint.
Thunder Point sounds like a great place to live and an awesome place to
raise a family. I found WILDEST DREAMS to be a very fast and
pleasurable read. The only problem is that now I'm all caught up on the
Thunder Point series and have to wait for the next book.
WILDEST DREAMS is the story of Lin Su Simmons, a home health
care nurse who was separated from her natural Vietnamese
family as a child refugee, and later as a pregnant teenager,
abandoned by her adopted American family. When she meets
professional triathlete Blake Smiley, she isn't ready to let
her guard down but her 14-year old son, Charlie, doesn't
have her same reservations.
What Lin Su doesn't realize is that turning her back on love
and friendship now might cost her more than just a better
future—it might also close the door on a past with which
she’s never been able to reconcile.
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