I’m join­ing another 5MinutesForBooks car­ni­val. I love Tues­days! This one is called, “I Read It!” I have sev­eral of their book rec­om­men­da­tions saved in my Google Reader, and this is a chance for me to tell you about one that I read and what I thought.

The book I read is Find­ing Stephanie by Susan May War­ren. Here is the orig­i­nal review. I’m not much of a book reviewer. I can’t always tell you exactly what I liked or didn’t like about a book, but I usu­ally can tell how much I liked it by how late I stayed up in order to read it! This book must have been pretty good, because I stayed up later than my hus­band! That has prob­a­bly only hap­pened 3–4 times in the last 6 years.

Find­ing Stephanie is the 3rd book in the Nobel Legacy series. The first two books are about her somewhat-prodigal broth­ers and how they find their way back to the fam­ily ranch which she has been run­ning. The third book is about Stephanie. I had hoped it would get into more of how she felt about being “the good child” who waited on her own dreams and sac­ri­ficed in order to main­tain the family’s ranch. It did talk about that a lit­tle, but I felt that dis­cus­sion was pretty super­fi­cial. I didn’t really feel like I knew how hard it had been for her. In this book, Stephanie becomes neigh­bors with a movie star who pur­chases a nearby ranch. He seems to have some inter­est in her based on her lack of inter­est in his star­dom. This is one of the two main story lines. The other sto­ry­line is about a boy and his two younger sis­ters who are on the move. They are with­out par­ents, and it appears they are in dan­ger of being split up in the social service/foster care/adoption system.

To me, this book was good. I enjoyed it. It has some good, sweet romance and a lit­tle sus­pense. It def­i­nitely held my inter­est, and if you’re look­ing for a good, quick read, I would rec­om­mend this one. If you’re look­ing for some­thing deeper or that has more char­ac­ter devel­op­ment, or if you’re look­ing for a book where you really miss the char­ac­ters after you fin­ish read­ing, I’d say skip this one for now and save it for a day at the beach!