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Okay, this is more like a comment, but..Sweet! I thought this story'd be awkward (I mean.. The reader notices in the 1st or 2nd installment that Laurel obviously had a crush on Del for a long time) but it wasn't, really. Maybe there was a situation or two, but otherwise it was a sweet story.An easy to read contemporary romance novel with some character-development, friendship, love and four very sweet women. I like them, all of them, although I haven't read a book by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb where the heroines or heroes weren't priviliged and it makes me kind of jealous.They either have amazing talents, money or both. Not all of them have had an easy life, but they 'made' it and it always looks like it's just a matter of will, when the truth is that often it's also about luck.Anyway, despite my jealousy and the lack of a better, more captivating plot, it was a nice, but average read. I think the problem with Roberts books is that they're more the rainy saturday afternoon-kind of books. They lack a real plot and despite the good things, they aren't very good reads.In this novel again the conflict felt forced, loosing the angsty atmosphere that the author probably intended to create. My main problem, though, isn't the story but as I've said above, the things that are implied.The characters do their lipservides, saying they're grateful and I'm sure they are, but the reader is still told that they all worked very hard etc. and that is told in a way that again implies everyone has the potential to do great things. When the truth is: Nope. We don't have this potential. We get lucky or we don't. We look good, are clever, have great parents.. or we don't. And that's basically it.What you do with what you get, is another story altogether, but the way Roberts portrays the lives of the women doesn't introduce us to think about such things. (Maybe it's a pet peeve of mine because I know two people who trigger themselves with such things into selfharm (I own another blog about mental deceases) and while I see that this isn't the authors' fault it constantly pisses me off..)