Title: Refuge Author: Carole Rummage
Published: November 13, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal
Page Count: 240
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Summary from Goodreads:Laney Lowell moved across the country to escape her past, not to fall in love. But when she becomes friends with Gabe, a handsome artist plagued by a mysterious disease, she'll have to decide between facing his dark truth or walking away from him forever. This thrilling romance is full of twists that will keep you guessing to the last page.
Once upon a time, Laney moved to a new town in The South. In this stereotypical town, everyone talked with a bad accent, watched NASCAR, and went to church. The first thing Laney did was visit the local wildlife refuge, where she promptly got attacked by a bear.
Then bam! The most inhumanly gorgeous boy ever to exist ran in and saved her. Afterward, they shared a short conversation. The boy’s name was Gabe.
Upon arriving back home, Laney had this to say: “She felt like she was whole when she was with him. Like a piece of her had been missing and she’d finally found it.”
Laney and Gabe couldn’t stop thinking about each other. The met up in the woods once or twice, but Gabe had a “secret disease” and couldn’t get too attached.
Enter “bad guy.” The reader knows he’s bad because he called Laney’s aunt by her first name—that’s very rude, you know. He also said this: “I thought I’d get a little pharmacology under my belt, help out the community.” Apparently this is “arrogant.” How dare someone try to be a philanthropist!
Laney went out on a date with a bad guy, but he was bad, so she didn’t like him. She kept thinking about Gabe. He thought about her a lot, too.
Isn’t this a lovely quote? “It’s too late, she thought. I already care too much. I just met him and I can’t stop thinking about him.”
So guess what, now Laney and Gabe were in love!
Does this make sense to you, fellow readers? “Laney knew she was light enough to dance on the water…but the sun was much too high and there was no golden pathway.”
Yeah, I have no idea what that means. But it sounds pretty!
Then Gabe leaves for Laney’s “own good.”
Then, gasp! Laney realizes the truth about Gabe’s “disease.” (Hint: he’s a werewolf.)
Gabe returns and Laney swoons into his waiting arms.
And they all lived happily ever after.
The End.
[Note: If you enjoyed the story I just told, chances are Refuge by Carole Rummage will be the book for you. If you, like me, have better things to do besides read poorly written insta-love paranormal romances heavily “inspired” by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, walk on! Nothing of interest here.]
