In the past two weeks, I’ve read books set in the Australian outback, the islands of the Azores off Portugal and the Alaskan bush. Books really do allow you to travel the world! The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker was refreshing, a light, pithy, romantic ride that satisfies the need for some romance reading.
Calla Fletcher is a mid-twenties girl, freshly fired from a bank job, who finds out that her long-lost father, who resides in Alaska, has lung cancer. The story of their reunion is the classic redemption tale – it’s poignant, heartbreaking, and well done. I really enjoyed it.
One issue I took with this book is Calla is made out to be a narcissistic bi*** in the beginning (that’s fine, we all know those people do exist) but she makes a total 180 into a flannel-wearing, no-makeup having lover of a bearded, lumberjack Alaskan man. He teaches her the true meaning of family and love and blah blah. I did really like their story, it just wasn’t thoroughly original.
Overall The Simple Wild kept me entertained and hooked on the characters. A nice segue into light summer reading.
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