The Wanderer is so different than anything I have read in the longest time. This is my first-time experience Robyn Carr and I can tell you that this will not be my last. I adored everything about this one, and I honestly wasn’t sure what I would think of it since the main couple here doesn’t even meet really until about half way through the book. But we see other sub plots with three other couples develop so it still had the romance I was looking for. From what I can gather after reading The Wanderer is a book that sets up the series and what we see in the first half of the story is the level of friendship and warm openness this small coastal town have for each other. They support each other and back each other up and fight for what is right. Our main hero of the story Hank Cooper has come to Thunder Point to find out what happened to his friend and why he died. There are certain factors that just don’t add up about his death and Hank wants to make sure it was really an accident before he leaves. But then he finds out he is the inheritor of his friends will, which includes a large parcel of land and a local restaurant/bar and many other services. He becomes friends with the local sheriff in town, as well as a teenager “Landon who is being bullied by the local rich kid who wants to be the star of the football team instead of the newbie who is better at football than he is, and Landon also catches the eye of the sheriff’s daughter and one of the most beautiful girls in school.

He’d never been shy, but he’d always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn’t believe they liked him.

We also have a plot between the sheriff Mac and the next door neighbor and his best friend Gina. Gina and Mac are both single parents and have become good friends and there is chemistry between them but Mac refuses to let anything happen because of their kids and doesn’t want to ruin a friendship. The fourth sub plot we have is with Mac’s aunt Lou and her boyfriend she is keeping secret because he is ten years younger than her. Lou really struggles with him being so young.

He laughed at her and his hand found her ass. “Best looking great grandmother in the state, maybe the country.”

She lifted her head, messy red gold curles flopping around. “When you’re seventy I’ll be eighty. Eighty.”

“Christ, like you’re screwing a nineteen year old. I hope I live to be seventy. I can’t wait to see what you bring to eighty!”

Even though normally all these plots would confuse me….it didn’t and I was so pleased because that was my fear before reading this one. The romance between Cooper and Sara was sweet and warm-hearted and even though it seemed to be a bit rushed, it didn’t feel that way as I was reading. It had a natural flow to their relationship despite all that they needed to work through.

With you, I’m mentally, emotionally, physically in the moment. All in. All there. All yours.
Another aspect I really loved was seeing the ages of the majority of the couples. All over thirty, which was refreshing. We did have the young love between the teenager which was cute and fun. I just love romances where you see that love can happen at any age. Overall this book surprised me and made me fall in love with this Oregon coastal town, the people, and the atmosphere. Definitely can’t wait to pick up book 2.

This review was originally posted on Addicted To Romance