Not my favorite of the Virgin River series, but still a darn good book. I think my only problem with it was the lack of romance, or should I say, the fact that the romance between the H/h in this book didn't seem to be front-and-center. I'd say the majority of this book revolved around the character of the young, troubled teen Courtney, the hero's step-daughter. Interesting character, and believably written, and not all that easy to like at first. But once Ms. Carr delved into her background, I More...

Short and quick read! The synopsis didn't have me jumping up and down to read this, but the author pulled it off again. Another hit in the Virgin River series. Lief was a stepdad to Courtney (age 14), and Kelly was the sister to Jillian (#12).

The plot, for me, was so-so, but the story turned out better than I anticipated. Lief had problems with Courtney. She was very rude to Kelly. I got frustrated at Kelly's character and felt she could have done MORE to extend an olive branch to the rebelliou More...

Meet Kelly Matlock. She has come to Virgin River to recoup from a nervous breakdown after she quits her job as a sous chef. This a job she adored but is forced to leave due to an alleged affair with the restaurants owner as stated by his estranged wife. She settles in at the victorian with her sister Jilly who has started a business out of her love for gardening. Kelly uses her love of cooking to help her heal. In the meantime she meets Leif Holbrook who has come to the community to give his ste More...

Ever since Jillian and Kelly visited Virgin River I knew they'd both get their own books. This book is Kelly's book. She's an impressive chef who fell in love with the owner of the restaurant she works at and is a chef himself. Problem is he's married. She loved her fast face job until one day changed everything. She goes to Virgin River to regroup and figure out what she wants in life. She discovers a lot about herself and Lief. Lief is a Widower with a teenage step daughter. They have a lot of More...

harvest moon by robyn carr
Kelly is a chef and has had enough of her environment and her male friend, after a medical issue she flees to her sister Jillian who has an organic farm.
A movie script writer has had enough of LA also. Laffe and his 14 yo daughter are also at Virgin River. He is getting help for his daughter and himself
with a local therapist.
Opportunities arise where she is able to cook to her hearts content and hooks up with another female in a business venture.
His daughter is finding More...

Every time I read a Virgin River book, it feels like coming home. I wasn't so sure about this one, single father looses wife has temperamental teen who hates everyone. But what was done was soooo different. Yes, the story was one that you knew in the end they would all end up happy, but it was done in a way that you weren't so sure how they would get there. I really enjoyed getting to see Jack and Preacher again. And of course Jillian and Colin, but it was so great to see Kelly and Leif work thr More...

Readers encountered Kelly briefly in the previous novel, Wild Man Creek as Jilian's award-winning San Francisco chef, a woman who really knows her way around a professional restaurant kitchen and who knows what she has to do to succeed. She has made some important friends, not the least of whom is her boss, a popular, suave, European restaurant owner who has convinced Kelly that she is on the fast track and in line to be head chef at one of his popular restaurants. Few non-restaurant people real More...

This was my first Robyn Carr novel, but it certainly won’t be my last. I loved Harvest Moon! Great writing, wonderful characters and a meaty story to sink your teeth into, so to speak.

This newest Virgin River story features Kelly Mattock, sous chef at a post San Francisco restaurant, who receives some distressing news, awakens in the hospital and is told she must simplify her life. She retreats to her sister’s old Victorian home in Virgin River. Along the way, she stops at the local bar and meet More...

If you've read my reviews of these books, you'll know that I have found them to be a mixed bag. Some are very much like the other--only the names change. Others seem to have so many useless characters. Others are really good stories that, while heavy on the romance, manage to incorporate other sub-plots so as to make the books more than just romances. I think Harvest Moon is a winner. While the relationship between Kelly and Lief is always there, so is Courtney, his (step) daughter. We watch her More...

The main characters have come to Virgin River to find some peace and for the value of its smallness. Kelly's sister was featured in Book 12. Now Kelly, a professional chef, is looking for the joy that she knows awaits her when she can enjoy her creativity in the kitchen without all the stress and hassle of the five star restaurant where she served as a sous chef. Leif is now a Virgin River resident to bring his stepdaughter out of the craziness of Hollywood and into the quiet and saner lifestyle More...

Oh. My. God! This book drove me nuts! Lief's daughter Courtney drove me insane with her bratty, ungrateful ways! I felt bad for her because her biological Dad could care less about her, but in the end at least she admitted she was being unreasonable! Kelly was great in this book. She is independent, classy, and driven. In the book Kelly was described as a woman with curves who lived for cooking upscale-restaurant food. It was a little off-putting that she constantly extended an olive branch to C More...

Reviewer: Jen
Robyn Carr has delivered another winner with her wildly popular Virgin River series. In case you're not familiar with this series, these books are set in a small town in rural California. The first few books centered around some military men who had settled in this little town after having served their country. As the series moved on, we were introduced to members of the community, who moved there to get away from the bustle of the big city, and then their family members.

In Harvest More...

all. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.

Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting to feel a little too unmotivated…until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriter—a combination Kelly finds irresistible. But less appealing is Lief's rebellious st More...

THE RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS:
MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG

Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock’s sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she’s retreated to her sister Jillian’s house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.

Puttering in Jill’s garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly’s starting to feel a little too unmotivated...until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lu More...

Carr has opened her world of Virgin River for all to experience, and it only gets better with each installment! I found this series by reading the 14th first! The Virgin River Novels do not need to be read in order but definitely ALL of them need to be read. The characters that live in, and stumble upon, Virgin River are all unique and will easily be loved from the first page. Carr has created a whole new type of story from so many different POVs and other love stories in the making throughout e More...

This has to been one of my least favorite in the series. But that is okay. It was still enjoyable and had all the qualities I enjoy in the Virgin River series. Solid relationship building, reinvention of ones' life, fully exploring and solving personal problems. Carr is very good at slowly and thoroughly writing these issues, she doesn't skimp on character development. My main problem was I didn't buy into the relationship between Leif and Kelly and I didn't believe that Kelly would be able to c More...

The experienced romance reader in me wanted to say that the beginning of these feelings between Kelly and Lief may have come on a bit too easy. Since when do sparks fly and are allowed to freely soar so early in the book? However, once I got over this initial shock and smoothed the singed ends of my electrified hair, I kinda liked the idea that this couple didn’t have to try too hard to recognize their feelings for one another. Oh sure, there were other ordeals to get in the way of all the mushy More...

There are times when I wish I could give 3.5 stars. This is one of those times. I could almost predict the entire story reading the last book. I don’t mind predictability. Leif makes a very brief appearance in Wildman Creek- he is widowed and with custody of his rebellious Goth dressed stepdaughter. Lief is a screenplay writer and has a very impressive resume that doesn’t seem to matter the Virgin River people. Kelly is Jillian’s sister, the chef that we get to know in Wildman creek. Kelly escap More...

"Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.

Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting to feel a little too unmotivated…until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriter—a combinati More...

Leif Holbrook, while not a Marine, appears to be a member of the Jack Sheridan school of incredibly-well-adjusted-single-males-who-do-everything-right-and-live-in-Virgin-River. He meets Kelly Matlock, a chef who flees her job and a sticky situation in San Francisco. By this time in the series, the person doing the fleeing ends up in Virgin River and ends of falling in love (Oh, you know you know where this is going, that’s not a spoiler). The one thing that stands in their way is Leif’s bratty s More...

This was a very interestesing book. Kelly was went up to Virgin River to relax and get her health and life back together after a collapse in the 5 star kitchen in San Fransico. Kelly met Lief a single stepfather who was raising a 14 year old girl who was trying to deal with the loss of her mother a year ago. Who was afraid Lief would send her back to her real father who didn't want her. who had to fight for her legally to keep her with him.
Kelly did the only thing she new how to do to perfection More...

Loved Harvest Moon, one of my favourites in this series. Didn't get much of a glimpse into many of the Virgin River residents, a bit of Jack and Preacher, Colin and Jillian got some page time as Harvest Moon is Jillian's sister Kelly's story. There were brief mentions of others, but not the usual from Robyn Carr.
One thing I really seem to enjoy in any romance I read these days is when there is honesty between our couples. Lots of issues going on but actually speaking to each other...no great sec More...

When Kelly Matlock, sous chef at a very busy and prestigious San Francisco restaurant suddenly collapses after a confrontation, it forces her to take stock of her life. She’s been working her butt off in a high-pressure restaurant under the head chef from hell for years and for what? She suddenly realises that she isn’t cut out for the stress that life is bringing her and when she returns to work only to be berated by the head chef almost immediately, Kelly walks out. She packs up her flat and d More...

I love Robyn Carr's Virgin River series. I am reading my way though the series. I've actually just read this one for the second time since I had read it long before I started reading the series in sequence and wanted to re-familiarize myself with the characters. I enjoyed it even more knowing the returning characters' back stories. Each book introduces new characters and story lines while catching up the reader with characters from past books. The story lines are interesting and the characters a More...

Jillian's sister, Kelly, is done with the stress of being a sou-chef in a big deal restaturant and running away from an "almost relationship " with chef Luca. Kelly finds peace at jillian's house in VR. Enter Oscar winning screen writer, Leif Holbrook. He has moved to VR to help his step daughter who has issues from her mother's death and her fathers abandonment. One look at Kelly and Leif is so glad he found VR. His daughter, Courtney is less than thrilled by everything and has turned into a Go More...

Best Virgin River Book

Kelly Matlock, sous chef at La Touche in San Francisco decided to leave her job after being accused by Olivia Brazzi of having an affair with her chef husband Luca. Kelly decides to move to Virgin River and live with her sister, Jillian.

In Virgin River Kelly meets widower Lief Holbrook and his stepdaughter, Courtney. Courtney is coming to terms with her mother's death, her biological father's rejection and the relationship that is developing between Lief and Kelly. Courtne More...

Virgin River, population 600 - Another great installment in the Virgin River series.

This is the story of Lief Holbrook, famous screenwriter and Kelly Matlock, an accomplished & talented chef. Both have come to VR to escape the big city for different reasons; one making a permanent move, the other only temporary, and each finding themselves drawn to the other. Both have issues and complications in their lives and are drawn to the small mountain town of Virgin River.

Smart, totally sexy Lief f More...

Another great book in the VR series. I love how Robyn Carr focuses on everyday issues of real people in her books. In this book it was the loss of a spouse and mother, raising a step-child and learning to love again. The counseling sessions with Jerry and Courtney gave a realistic understanding how teens feel when they feel their world is being turned upside down. My reason for the 4 stars...call me a sap, but I missed reading about our old friends. We got a blurb here and there with Jack and Pr More...