But while her conscious brain knows she's safe on her best friend's rural family farm, at night, the "dragons in my heart," shake their chains and roar-in the form of scream-inducing nightmares, nightmares that jerk the male farmhands from their own dreams in the bunkhouse they all share. Lark smiles and acts "normal," determined to defeat her jumpiness, her illogical fear. Lark grieves not only for her lost sense of invincibility ("Back then I'd thought that bad experiences only made for good stories" ), but for one of her kidnappers, a young boy who was killed during her rescue. Having this happen made the Shipley crowd seem even less like flawed, complex real people.The sex is great however! And the humor sparkles.In Sarina Bowen's Keepsake, the third book of her Truth North series, the grieving protagonist is Lark, a once fearless risktaker who is spending time on a Vermont farm recovering from being kidnapped while on a twelve-month assignment for her job with a NGO in Guatemala. This book relies heavily on a reader caring about all who are a part of that community and, three books in, they are starting to seem flat to me-they aren't evolving in interesting ways.Lastly, a very tricky relationship issue between Lark and another member of the community (not Zach) is resolved absurdly easily.
He is a wonderful man and it was lovely to watch him discover sex and intimacy.I am also a bit over the wondrousness of Shipley Farm and those who live there. I even bought his falling in love at first sight with Lark. His voice rings true and authentic and his life, as he tells it, is engaging and unusual. I didn't know her and I found her hard to care about.I, however, loved Zach. (And the way her kidnapping experience played out didn't seem viable.) She stayed stuck in the pages for me.
She's now back, struggling with PTSD, and trying to make peace with what happened there.But although the book is written in alternating first person, I couldn't quite apprehend Lark. From our review:The heroine, Lark (she's the best friend of May for those who've read the books), comes to the farm to recover from being kidnapped for ransom while working for a non-profit in Guatemala.
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