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lightreadsSea Swept, Rising Tides, and Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts
3/5. Trilogy of romances about three adoptive brothers coming back together after their father's death to raise the last boy he adopted.
Three very different romances – wild boy settles down, quiet boy carries torch way too long for single mother, pair of intense driven professionals learn to stop depersonalizing so much. But mostly these books are about family and how to build one out of broken parts. Pretty much every main character was subject to intense trauma at some point. Roberts isn't particularly interested in the slow hard work of recovery, but instead in what it looks like many years down the road, when it's not acute anymore, but maybe it's still shaping how you think about relationships. Also, the kid is aggressively cute.
Content notes: Recollections of child abuse, violence, sexual predation, etc.
3/5. Trilogy of romances about three adoptive brothers coming back together after their father's death to raise the last boy he adopted.
Three very different romances – wild boy settles down, quiet boy carries torch way too long for single mother, pair of intense driven professionals learn to stop depersonalizing so much. But mostly these books are about family and how to build one out of broken parts. Pretty much every main character was subject to intense trauma at some point. Roberts isn't particularly interested in the slow hard work of recovery, but instead in what it looks like many years down the road, when it's not acute anymore, but maybe it's still shaping how you think about relationships. Also, the kid is aggressively cute.
Content notes: Recollections of child abuse, violence, sexual predation, etc.