Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: Moving Mountains
AUTHOR: TN Tarrant
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 214 Pages
RELEASE DATE: August 25, 2014
BLURB:
After Nathan Taylor’s wife fell into a coma, he fought for years to get custody of their son, Christopher, and finally succeeded. Although Nathan loves his wife, Letty, he has never been in love with her—theirs was a marriage of convenience, and they both knew it. Still, when he meets Raven Black Bear, the physical therapist who cares for Letty, his attraction to the man leads to a crisis of conscience.
Christopher’s life in the custody of his selfish grandparents has been difficult, and Raven befriended the boy during Christopher’s court-ordered visits with Letty. On the day Nathan regains custody, he brings Christopher to Letty’s side to share the news while Raven is with her. Raven soon falls for Nathan, but he struggles with the moral implications of a relationship with his patient’s husband. Both men worry about how a romance between them will affect Christopher, and they face a difficult choice. They can have the future their hearts desire, but they must decide if it’s the best future for everyone.
REVIEW:
Okay, so I’ll start off with saying that I think this book is not going to appeal to a number of readers. If you told me that I would read and enjoy a story about a man who falls in love with his wife’s physical therapist while she’s lying there in a coma, well I’d tell you that no thanks, that isn’t the book for me. And it literally is over the body of the comatose Letty that these two men meet and begin a relationship. However, there is much more to this story than those bare bones, and I didn’t feel that there was any cheating involved. If there is one thing that I can’t deal with in my romances, it’s cheating. Even a whiff of a cheater ruins a romance for me. So I feel pretty confident in saying, that the author handles the situation with what must surely be a magic wand because I was left cheering on Nathan and Raven’s romance, while still loving the relationship that Nathan has with the ever present Letty.
Now I’ve read some other reviews on this book, and I’m not gonna lie, when they say that this story is overly dramatic, they’re spot on. But sometimes overly dramatic is exactly what I’m looking for. Moving Mountains had day-time television drama slapped all over it, and I totally lapped it up! The villains were so deliciously villainous, the good guys were so perfect they needed smacking, and the child they all fought over needed to be picked up and protected. Then there was the plotline that never rests, and I was in drama heaven.
There isn’t a lot of sex in the story, for those of you that require it, but I think any more and it would have just slowed down the plot. While the romance was definitely enjoyable, the story focused on all the different relationships between the characters equally. I was just as invested in Nathan spending time with his son as I was in Nathan spending time with love interest, Raven. Actually, I really enjoyed the character of Chris, whereas normally kids in books annoyed the heck out of me.
What TN Tarrant has written is a story that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy about the love between families. It makes you hanker for the best possible outcomes for all of the good guys, main characters and secondary, and if it’s all a bit too perfect…well, who am I to complain if the author actually gives me exactly what I want.
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