Hello everyone!
I can finally close the lid on yet another Serenity Woods book trilogy!
I'm feeling quite proud of myself, as this one actually sat on my TBR shelf for a little while because, for some odd reason or another, I just never got around to it.
And then once I sat on my behind and paged over all the leaves, well, I realized why I keep coming back to this author.
It's not that there aren't a couple of glitches along the way, obviously.
Every author has THOSE.
It's how Ms Woods manages those glitches and ends up creating not only perfectly acceptable happily ever afters, but even more perfectly acceptable characters that are flawed but who make my heart just feel all toasty and warm inside.
Without further ado, allow me to review Talking Sense.
Now, as always with a series of books, you can guess I may have already done the first two since I said this was the last in a trilogy.
And so I have!
Links to my reviews of the first two Sensual Healing books, An Uncommon Sense and Making Sense can be found at the bottom of this page. For the rest from Ms Woods ... I may have to do a separate blog post with all the links, or something. Maybe I'll figure out a way to make this blog fancier and get some side menus going ... hmm.
Anyway.
Talking Sense being the third and final book in this series which writes about men with certain supernatural abilities, and the women who end up dealing with them, finally closes the loop on the couples, more or less. There are obviously still things that COULD be discussed, but that's all for the future, maybe.
And you can imagine some things anyway!
In Talking Sense, we catch up with Mia, Grace and Freya's best friend, who you can recall was quite happy to go out and do everything under the sun, only she had a tendency to pick really terrible guys to do it with.
Also, by the start of this book, she'd unfortunately been in a car accident which left her with perpetual pain in her back and shoulder and a massive amount of guilt as a young boy had died in that same accident.
Enter one Irishman Colm, who's a substitute teacher at the school where Mia and Grace work at.
He's in New Zealand to look for his father, and how does he know his dad was a Kiwi? Well, he has a sort of sixth sense himself, namely that he can feel emotions from other people if he picks up something of theirs or touches them in any way. Generally, he's able to tune it out, but when it comes to Mia, that kind of falls flat on its face.
Colm can't believe anyone would willingly put themselves through as much pain as Mia seems to do on a daily basis, and as the two grow closer he seems to realize it's more about guilt than anything for her. She believes she doesn't deserve to be happy or pain-free after the accident.
At this point, the book diverges into three main veins: one is the obvious love-story between Mia and Colm, full of its own potential problems given Colm is from Ireland and plans on returning there.
Second is the search for Colm's father, which Mia volunteers to help him with.
And third is the wrap-up of the previous storylines.
The love story on is pretty straight-forward as far as it goes, because Mia and Colm had been attracted to each other for a bit now and so it seems like a natural progression for them to take the next step, especially as they play strip Whist and Colm helps Mia manage her pain by offering massages (and activity, ahem) as well as making sure she takes her pain killers. It's not until the second plotline goes underway that things start getting a bit tricky in the first one.
See, the search for Colm's father reveals he might actually be just around the corner, but what they find instead is a grave, and Colm lashes out in anger, saying he might as well just pack up and go back to Ireland, so that's a big crack in the budding relationship.
But don't forget, we've got plot three coming up: Freya and Nate arrive back from travelling the world and reveal they're getting married, but also a heavily-pregnant Grace goes into labour and delivers her first daughter.
Which then gets kidnapped straight out of the hospital nursery ward by a stalker that's been shadowing Grace and Ash for a while.
Mia reaches out to Colm to help find the baby, by using his special sense which he's been ambivalent and then angry at. But to find a newborn baby, Colm will do just about anything, and he manages to get a bead from the baby's blanket which leads to her safe recovery from the woman who worked at the same school as Mia and Grace.
Also, Colm and Mia reconcile and there's hope for them to have a baby in the future, too.
Which is where the book wraps up.
I have to say, I felt like some of the lines in this book were a bit rushed - like the one with his father, which kind of just dropped out of existence after the discovery of the grave, and the whole Ireland/New Zealand bit was also just skimmed over in my opinion. Not to mention the accident! It was never properly explained. However, that aside, this book as a general whole still remains a good conclusion to the trilogy and Colm and Mia deserved to get their happily ever after!
I recommend it for summer reading, and if you feel like you need some happy in your life.
These books always deliver it.
xx
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