Debbie Macomber
When I picked up The Inn at Rose Harbor I was looking forward to reading another
book in Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove series. I had been surprised to learn that
Macomber had toyed with the idea of ending her popular thirteen-book series based
in the fictional town of Cedar Cove on Puget Sound. Instead, the New York Times best-selling author
listened to her readers and came up with a compromise: she started a new series
involving a bed-and-breakfast set in the town. While the old characters will
still drop by, the story will now revolve around the bed-and-breakfast’s owner,
Jo Marie Rose, and her guests.
In this first instalment, we learn that
recently-widowed Jo Marie is struggling with grief. In need of a
fresh start, she quits her job in Seattle and buys a bed-and-breakfast in Cedar
Cove. After settling in, she welcomes her first guests, Joshua Weaver and Abby
Kincaid. Joshua is hoping to reconcile with his dying stepfather, while Abby
needs to let go of the guilt she has carried for over twenty years. Using three
points of view in alternating chapters, Macomber skillfully traces their
healing journeys.
The book was a quick read and I was
disappointed to put it down. But I was reassured by its ending: Debbie Macomber
left us with the promise of another wonderful story involving two mysterious
guests.
- Joanne Guidoccio
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