It's the fourth I've read from the Virgin River series already and I can't bring myself to give more than 2 stars every time. I really like the main character of the first installment (Mel) who is pretty fleshed out, but after her story it's just the same story over and over again. This one does not fail to retell the same story. Woman loves man or man loves woman and is not loved in return until... well until they realize they are. One star for the entertainment (I am, after all, reading them) and one star for the effort in each book to slightly change the angle of the love story. But there's no depth in the narrative, no good writing, the story is always slightly misogynistic and even though there are attempts to build strong women, they always fall into the arms of stronger men. *Sigh* The classic "I need a no-brainer kind of literature book. And one that makes me happy to have Daniel Pennac's fifth commandment handy (in the Imprescriptible Rights of the Reader): "The right to read anything."