paige (ptsungirl)'s Reviews > Chesapeake Blue

"Time to look forward, Seth. You don't want to ever forget what's behind you, but you've got to look ahead."

When I was a kid falling in love with books, I dreamed of finding an author I could love as much as I love Nora Roberts. She paints a dream, she creates a lifetime, and somehow, she keeps surprising me.

It's not that I didn't love every book that came before this, because I did, but I fully believe they were all the base for the real story. The thing about Nora that I can always count on is that there is going to be a beginning, a middle, and an end. You can almost point out exactly where those transitions are, and it's such a comfort to me.

In her series, it's a little less definitive. Chesapeake Bay was definable, and perfect. The beginning of Seth's life was devastating and terrible, terrifying and heart breaking. He finds a family who takes him in, loves him, and cherish him and yet still he can't seem to break from his history. In the first three, we didn't seem to get an end... and in this one we did.

Being a part of Seth's life, watching him grow up into the man he is now, it was so much fun and filled my heart right up. I adored watching him come home and truly start the life he has never been anything less than grateful for. I loved watching the family become fully one again, and I enjoyed watching Dru become a part of such a close knit world so much. She fit in perfectly, just as anyone would have had to with the Quinn's.

The moments in between hurt are the ones that matter the most, and watching Seth accept that throughout this book was incredible. It made me stop and wonder if I do enough every day to love all that I am lucky enough to have around me. I hope I do.

Being a part of the Quinn family was a joy, and I know that until I run out of Nora books, I will always be able to trust her to make a family out of words on a page. A family that feels like my own, and that I will constantly love like my own.