Reviews

Larkspur Cove by Lisa Wingate

shammons's review against another edition

3.0

A freebie I had for my Kindle, first in a series. I have more in this series that I plan to get to (one day!).

janjanjukebox's review against another edition

4.0

Larkspur Cove by Lisa Wingate 348/355 pages
Moses Lake #1

Genre: Christian Fiction, Christian Romance, Inspirational, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction

Featuring: Texas, Single Mother Divorcee, Dual POVs, Social Work, Nature, Teenagers, Rual Living

Rating as a movie: PG-13 for adult situations

My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

My thoughts: Pg 41 - I think I'm going to like this one but it's going to be slow going.
Pg 60 - I'm going to have a good day tomorrow. This isn't as fun as Texas Cooking but us better written and I'm enjoying the complexity of the characters.
Pg 105 - I think this is a blend of Christian Romance and Mystery. Wherever it is it's slow, so I hope it's good.
Pg 193 I'm almost tempted to offer the last 2 books.
Pg 267 - This is more life story than romance.


This journey would have gone much faster if my husband wasn't home during my reading sessions. I enjoyed this book. This is my 4th completed Wingate book and second series. I know from experience her stories can start on the slow end but are worth it. This this story followed the rhythm of Texas Cooking, the first book I read by Lisa Wingate where it's slow, fast, slow, fast, back-and-forth and you feel like you're just inching along. I did not finish her more popular books, but enjoy her Texas stories that are too bland to be romance but so unpredictable they are authentically realistic. I already have Blue Moon Bay, so I'm going to put Firefly Island on my list for January. Larkspur Cove doesn't offer much closure so I'm thrilled to jump into the next book.

Recommend to others?: Maybe. This story is good but it may be an acquired taste if you're looking for action or Insta-romance.

amgibbs_'s review against another edition

3.0

2.5/3 ⭐️ When I first started reading this books, I thought my rating was going to be higher. I couldn’t put it down! However, once I hit around the 40% mark, I just couldn’t get into it until the very last two or three chapters. I like Lisa Wingate’s writing style and found myself really liking (and rooting for) Mart and Andrea. The ending of the story was good, but I barely wanted to continue reading after that 40% mark.

catrev's review against another edition

5.0

Larkspur Cove by Lisa Wingate is a compelling and heartfelt novel of finding yourself and healing the past. Andrea Henderson has moved with her fourteen-year-old son Dustin to her parents' cottage on Moses Lake to recuperate from a terrible divorce that has left her trying to support them on her own and picking up the broken pieces of her dreams. When she took the job as a counselor for Child Protective Services, she had no idea just what that would entail in this remote area where GPS is useless and directions are given using bullet hole ridden stop signs and trees struck by lightning. Mart McClendon has returned to Moses Lake to heal some wounds of his own. Working as the game warden, he ends up running into teens in trouble, so he assumes after catching Dustin with some other kids, that Andrea is just another parent too busy to worry about what's really going on with her child. But Mart and Andrea are forced to work together when it's discovered that a strange man living up in the hills has a young girl living with him, and no one seems to know where she came from. Their investigation will force them to re-evaluate their opinions of each other, as well as start to deal with the tragedies in their pasts. Wingate is a terrific writer. While this is technically a romance, there is unexpected death and heart to the story. Readers will want to pack up and move to Moses Lake, a small town populated by people who genuinely care for each other (even as they gossip and tease), and when a neighbor is in need, the whole community turns out to help. Wingate paces the tenuous relationship between Mart and Andrea perfectly, not rushing, and allowing it to build at a natural and beautiful pace. She populates the book with many interesting sub-characters, and I hope that she will revisit Moses Lake soon to tell their tales as well.

sarah_lamendola's review

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

donnareadathon2021's review against another edition

4.0

Andrea is a recently divorced, single mom to a teenage son in her late thirties. She has moved into her parent’s holiday home in Moses Lake and is starting a new job as a social worker. She has some pretty hairy families in dire circumstances to visit and is struggling with parenting her son when her son Dustin is caught where he shouldn’t be on the lake a group of friends by the local game park warden Mart. At first Andrea is mad at Mart but when she keeps meeting him she realises that he is really kind and caring. A family and little girl in needs comes to both of their attention and brings them closer together. I enjoy Lisa Wingate’s writing, it’s realistic without being overly romantic.