Virgin River Book 1

Well I finished Virgin River on Sunday.  It was good but it is basically like all other romance novels--woman in distress, meets her prince charming, prince charming saves her from peril.

Okay a little synopsis (spoilers)

Mel (the damsel) moves from Los Angeles to a small town of 600 people.  She is a nurse practitioner in maternity ward in LA and is in need of a major change and decides to become a midwife in V. R.  One of the reasons why she wants to leave the city is her husband was murdered a year before and she wants to leave everything of that past life behind.

At first she has a hard time adjusting to country life.  But the people in the town are very friendly towards her.  This is one of the things I find unrealistic with this book.  Usually when a city person moves to a small town, the people are very standoffish and even look down their noses at the newcomers (believe me this has happened to me.)  And here in this book people have welcomed her with open arms.  Right.

One thing that I did feel realistic, however, is the rate of teen pregnancy.  In the small backwater town I live in for a couple of years, people got married right away and even dropped out of high school to have children.  In small towns like this, there is nothing to do-no malls to go shopping at, no movie theaters to go to, no wi-fi, it does not take a rocket scientist to know why teen pregnancies are high.

One good thing about the book is the author did an excellent time describing the scenery such as the mountains and wildlife.

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