Judith’s mouth was full of scone. For a moment she thought she was going to choke, but managed to swallow it down before anything so awful should happen. There was also a really fun tie in with McDevitt's Academy series of novels, which I've also thoroughly enjoyed. Definitely some fan service nodding.

Then Tate Montgomery arrives, and it seems that she might be able to fall for a handsome guy like this one. However, the way that they first meet is less than romantic. From then on, Quinn is convinced that she should stop wasting her time on guys and just focus on herself. The book was noteworthy to me in spending as much time on Earth as it did, as quite a bit of the book is set there, by far the most information revealed on Earth in the series (you get to visit a number of famous cities and see what happened to them). I don’t want to say how, but it is far and away the most self-referential and self-aware of the books, that while no one breaks the fourth wall, you do get a sense of meta commentary in a few sections on the novel series as a whole. Chase gets some romance, not a common thing at all in the series. Through Gabe, discussions and memories of him, you learn more about the past of both Alex and Chase and their ties to each other through Gabe.

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Mr. Willis lived with Mrs. Willis, but she milked cows for the village farmer, and quite often wasn’t there. Rumour had it that she wasn’t Mrs. Willis at all, but Miss Somebody-or-other, and nobody talked to her much. The mystery of Mrs. Willis was all bound up with the mystery of Heather’s Uncle Fred who hadn’t got it in him, but whenever Judith broached the matter with her mother, she was met with pursed lips and a change of subject. And that's a puzzling thing too: Alex and Chase are so freaking passive. If they're really treasure-hunting archaeologists, they should be living and breathing ancient manuscripts and digging into the history - they should be excited to learn more about how things were! Not just hitting up the occasional museum and asking a few questions. The quests are always brought to them by clients, not something they seek out on their own, and the answers always seem to magically resolve with very little effort. Set in Cornwall, this is a beautifully woven tale of families, and love and community. The author's knowledge of Cornwall shines through and the village of Pendruggan is a character it its own right. Just good, old fashioned space mystery. Add to that, the fact that, even though the series takes place in the distant future, the settings, the language, everything, is very accessible. I like that. The author didn't go out of his way to invent some strange dialect (which works in some cases like the belters in the Expense series). I'd rather not read an entire book, where I don't understand every third word. There's an easy, almost an offhand, way to explain that these characters are no longer speaking the language we speak now, on Earth. You go, hmm, and move on, not giving it a second thought. Perfect.

No, my father’s. She’s much older. About fifty. She lived in India. That’s where she got the elephant’s foot.”We follow Judith, her friends and family all the way through WWII, which doesn’t leave them unscathed. However, even though the war is brutal, we experience it, for the most part, through others and at a distance. The whole story is a cozy and wonderful read - the kind of book that makes you feel like you’re soaking in a bubble bath just about the whole time. She was obviously in a good mood. Judith decided that this was the right moment to broach the subject of the bicycle. Strike while the iron’s hot, as Mrs. Warren liked to say. Take the bull by the horns. I wouldn’t like that. But I suppose you won’t have to look at it much. Got your own room, have you?” The book has a bit of a happily ever after feel, which I am not allergic to. I am a bit mistrusting of it. I had the pleasure to receive a copy of this book from GoodReads and HarperCollins. This was the first book I have read from Fern Britton, and I know it won’t be my last for sure!

If you've read 'The Postcard' by Fern Britton, a couple of the characters may be incredibly familiar for you when you read this book. Don't worry, you're not going crazy! I loved this book. All the stars. I loved Winter Solstice, The Shell Seekers and now COMING HOME. Without a doubt- I am a Rosamunde Pilcher fan. Coming Home is based in Cornwall, England - a beautiful seaside area with loads of fisherman around. The author describes the place so well, that it made me want to go there, just to see it and be close to the characters. It reminds me of South Shields very much as well. The main plot, that of the rescue of Capella, occupies only the beginning and the end of the novel: it is about the only interesting thing in the book, even if the author has already done much better. Although this is another book set in Pendruggan, and I did love my return to Trevay, this is definitely a standalone book, and the few recurring characters that were present really were there in a minor way this time around.

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Coming Home is not a great work of literature, that's for sure. It has little, if any literary merit. Why do I like it then? I'm not even sure, but there is something wonderfully familiar about it, something cozy, human and warm about the story itself. Perhaps it is the sum of all those human stories (and there are a lot of stories and characters in this one). Somehow when I look at all those human stories together, they do manage to convey a message. I found it hard to relate to any of the characters on a personal level because they felt somehow distant, like I was hearing their story narrated by a random person who is only semi-interested in them. The dialogues between the characters were often well written, I have to give credit to writer for that, but that was hardly enough to make the characters seem more real. I mean when it really comes down to it, it is a romance novel. I usually don't have mixed feelings about romance books, because usually I don't like them, as romance is not really my kind of genre, so my mixed feelings actually indicate something positive about this novel. Meet Quinn Davis. This main character stands a good chance at getting the beautiful life that she always dreamed about. The only problem is that she has no idea whether she is ready to let love come into her life. It's really a shame that humanity had a breakdown about 5k years go and anything that wasn't written in stone was lost, or else this little job of trying to figure out what a cell phone is or how the cradle of civilization had gotten to the moon in the first place would have been a much easier proposition. As a whole, however, the series is worth it. It may dip and rise with each release, but generally speaking, it works more often than not. So if your preference, when it comes to science fiction, tends to run a little more on the academic side, give this series a read. It's not as dry as I make it sound, to be sure. It's just... well, you'll see.