What We Find: A Sullivan’s Crossing Novel (Sullivan’s Crossing, 1)

Reviews

1. 

   SassyFpT – October 3, 2024

   Very glad I got to meet Maggie
   Oh wow, how incredibly refreshing to read a book with a real bad-a** woman as the main character! And I mean a REAL women with all the baggage life customarily places on us, leaving each of us to handle this baggage in our personal way. This is how life is making us each an individual, not molded by the sex with which we were born with. Maggie is a women, a smart and strong woman at the core, with her very own idiosyncrasies.That said, every character in Carr’s book is real, a real person with each having their own personality, idiosyncrasies and mannerisms, each with his or her own history, with their own unique way of walking through life. Even though they are moving in the same place, The Crossing campsite in Colorado at a jump off point for a walk or hike on the Continental Divide Trail.There we meet Maggie, Sully and Cal along with varied other individuals. Each is there for his or her purpose and each is carefully crafted into their character with their strength and weaknesses. And what is wonderful about these individuals is, that they each sound like someone we may know, a friend or buddy at work, or a neighbor down the street from us. Each real and an individual, not molded from a mold labeled “dumb blond, drunk slob, irritating gossip and know-it-all”, or any other such slurred label , a character so many writers seem to be using as main and supporting characters in their stories. This has simply been a great refreshingly real story with characters who are refreshingly real, a joy to read and I want to read more by this author. And I wish that there were more writers like Robyn Carr.We meet Maggie, a Neurosurgeon, crashing from an overload of life as a Neurosurgeon and life in general. She takes a break from medicine , hoping to recover her equilibrium, healing from wounds life gave her, and to rest. She packs her bags for an extended vacation and drives to her father’s camp ground, not sure what to expect and how this all would play out for her, especially since there is history between Sully, her father, and herself. Having been dumped by her boyfriend, suffered losses business related and personal life overload and definitely overworked, she is looking for nothing and everything, but most of all rest. But even though she didn’t have any specific expectations, what she finds at The Crossing a not this. (I leave it at this, I don’t want to reveal too much, you just need to read and experience this story for yourself.) It’s an enjoyable read, this story unfolds leaving you wondering chapter after chapter. I actually looked up The Continental Divide Trail on the internet, she great photos!Anyways, this is a well told story with real people playing all the parts, life happens as it so often does, with unexpected events and life altering surprises. This is how real life is. I was initially a bit confused by the title though, What We Find, left me questions about its meaning right up to the end.

2. 

   Roxanne – October 3, 2024

   Enjoyable Read
   This is one of those books you want to read in one sitting. The main characters were cleverly crafted and made you want their happiness. I look forward to reading the other 2 books in this series.

3. 

   Amazon Customer – October 3, 2024

   I am still reading this book but I can not put it down. I bought this book to see if it was like the movie. The book and the movie are great.

4. 

   Sarenja – October 3, 2024

   … und eine tolle, mitreißende Geschichte! Die Charaktere sind so gut beschrieben, ebenso wie die Landschaft und die Szenerie, dass man sie vor seinem inneren Auge sehen und mitfiebern kann. Ein Buch, das von Anfang an fesselt und das – ich zumindest – nicht mehr aus der Hand legen konnte, bis ich es durchgelesen hatte. Tolle Recherche und ein Schreibstil, der definitiv Lust auf die weiteren Bände macht!

5. 

   BR41 – October 3, 2024

   The beginning of a superb new series of small town entanglements by the awesome Robyn Carr, one of my absolutely tip top reliable anti depressants of choice. Maggie, burnt out young neurosurgeon from Denver comes home to Sullivan’s Crossing in the magnificent countryside, where visitors and hikers can access the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails. Maggie has had a professional setback which has to be resolved and a bad breakup with her doctor boyfriend. She goes to stay with her father Sully who has never been involved in her upbringing but has been involved with the recreational facilities in Sullivan’s Crossing, his familial inheritance. Her citified mother could not stand the isolation, and the marriage ended early into her childhood, Maggie was brought up in Chicago but could not resist returning to Colorado for med school and on. Now burnt out and exhausted she is pausing In Sullivan’s Crossing where she meets Cal, a mysteirous widower who comes from a family much more dysfunctional and complex than hers……and they slowly trust and untangle each other in the small town environment Robyn Carr does so well: sharply drawn characters across a wide spectrum, with interesting pasts, interesting problems, interesting personal journeys which engage the reader, because Maggie, Cal, Sully, Connie the firefighter, Maggie’s mother Phoebe, Maggie’s stepfather, Walter, a successful doctor, Cal’s siblings – Sierra, Dakota, Sedona appear or have back stories, as do his profoundly dysfunctional parents Jed, a schizophrenic and his complicit mother Marissa, living in rural Iowa. With the slow accretion of details; these characters around Sullivan’s Crossing – the people helping out, Enid, and Tom Canaday the local go to fix it everything, to name but few become people we want to know better. We have brushes with the law, cannabis growers, medical emergencies, emotional meltdowns, but while a description might make things seem heavy, it is all laced with everyday delightful humour, energy the unexpected. The addictive Virgin River series was set in northern California, so we have moved locations, but Robyn Carr fans are being gifted a new small town series which exhibits the same qualities of fascinating people, beautifully described locations, humour, pathos, affection, and for the reader, knowing things are going to really begin to work out. And all of this with a light touch, who could ask for anything more.

6. 

   Sharon Reading – October 3, 2024

   I have just finished the last of Sullivans Crossing. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters in this series and the personal dilemmas stemming from the parents of the main children – the Jones family. I loved the interaction between the characters.