The 2nd book in this series was just as wonderful as the 1st period we find out what happens to Dan and some more new characters get introduced that we will learn about in the next book. And it's interesting to see how Olivia has so many twists in her relationships as well. Definitely can't wait to start on the next book and see where our friends in Cedar cove are next.

I don't know what it is about this series, but I can't stop reading it.

I'm enjoying this series. Decided to try after enjoying watching the show on the Hallmark Channel.

Judge Olivia Lockhart and friends return in 204 Rosewood Lane, which picks up right after 16 Lighthouse Road. Grace is dealing with the aftermath of her husband leaving her; Olivia and Jack are making their relationship official; and every character from the first book gets a love interest.

I didn’t enjoy 204 Rosewood Lane nearly as much as I thought I would. While I enjoyed some of the plot lines, such as Olivia and Jack and Grace and Cliff, this book really did suffer from too many subplots.

Now, normally I’d have nothing bad to say about a subplot like the romance between Grace and Cliff. I really enjoy both characters, and the romance was well-paced and cute. But Grace has just so recently finalized her divorce with Dan, and so it really did feel like too soon for her character to get into another relationship. Grace was an engaging character in the first book because of her strength throughout the toughest event in her life, and that strength was stolen from her in this book. And with her strength also went her complexity as a character, sadly.

Olivia and Jack should have worked for me. And in a lot of ways, they did. Now, they had their normal spat of miscommunication that I hated, but I can see past that if the rest of the romance is well-developed. Sadly, both Olivia and Jack were sidelined to make room for Jack’s son Eric and his girlfriend-turned-wife Shelia. And Eric and Shelia just simply aren’t well written characters, nor is their romance well-developed. Whereas Olivia and Jack are complex characters with very interesting histories, Eric and Shelia feel like they were born yesterday, without a history. And neither of them have personality enough to compensate for their lack of history or complexity.

Now I’m going to finish on the thing I hated the most about this book. And it’s not the plot. Because honestly? This book doesn’t have a plot. Most of Macomber’s don’t. The plot are the romances. And the fact of the matter is, the romance between Zach and Rose Cox SUCKS. It’s a clear imitation of Brandon and Joanie’s relationship from Macomber’s Dakota Born, which released just the year earlier, except Macomber doesn’t seem to understand what made Brandon and Joanie so compelling to read about. Zach and Rose may be a couple in meltdown mode, but it doesn’t feel like it. It feels like forced conflict in order to force a divorce plot. It’s easy to see that both of them are being incredibly unreasonable, and if they had just one conversation, then this would all be resolved.

In the end, I’m just left with this thought: Wow, Macomber has never ruined a series this early in.

Continues to be an enjoyable series, easy reading and with enjoyable characters.

Enjoyable chick lit.....

Its been a a while since i read the first one in this series so it took me most of the book to get family trees and story lines straight. This is much better read in order with the rest of the set so y0u can keep things straight in your mind.
Apart from that there are a million books like this, Debbie Macomber is an above average author so always a pleasure to read.

I read this book awhile ago.

These books are becoming quite the guilty pleasure