The Island Keepers
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1511467894 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 308 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Traveling, dining out, and boat riding are among his passions; that and flying his own single engine airplane when he was younger. An upstate New Yorker by birth, he now lives in the most rural area of far Maine, USA, on 54-acres of land: wooded, lawns, driveways, and a few buildings including his four thousand square foot home which he calls the white house; because it is. He is a businessman and journalist by trade, a man up at 3:45 every weekday morning for a stint on the news desk; a little earlier on weekends to write fiction in his man cave. His property is home to moose, deer, rabbits, raccoons, porcupines, fox, weasels, black bears, and one Bard owl. About the Au
Pixie Mmgoodbookreviews said 5 Hearts from MM Good Book Reviews. 5 Hearts Reviewed by PrimeReading this book was just, OMG. For the last half to third of this book I was crying, seriously you’ll need the tissues! This is the type of book that left me scarred and so afterwards, to get my mind off of all the thoughts swirling about my head, I had to go back to an old faithful to cheer me up. Seriously, isn’t that a great sign for a book?!The primary main character is Wyatt: he’s a Canadian lighthouse keeper near the US mainland on Puffin Island. If you read the author’s notes some really interesting facts come up regarding this and so what ensues in the first third doesn&rsq. Quentin wonderfully added a second set of main characters to add Rachel Ravenheart Kristopher Quentin is a master at his craft. From the minute I started to read the book was hard to put down. The minute I thought I had the story figured out the plot twisted and took me somewhere completely different.While most authors have one main set of characters Mr. Quentin wonderfully added a second set of main characters to add to the overall story. All four of the characters were built in such a way that you laughed or cried when they did.Mr. Quentin thankfully gave some background about Puffin Island to help us understand better about the location and it's significance to the plot of the book.Wyatt and David each came to . InkedRainbowReads said ThreeStar I enjoyed this unusual book. ThreeStarI enjoyed this unusual book. I can’t say much about the plot without spoiling the story, but I liked the premise - two men charged with caring for an island of disputed sovereignty.David and Wyatt are both attractive men. Their characters become more defined and more developed as the story progresses, but I have a hard time marrying David’s casual bigotry at the start with the man he later becomes. At times David and Wyatt’s voices sound much older than early twenties.A great DEAL happens very quickly in this story. This makes for an exciting read complete with an international diplomatic incident, an arre
His property is home to moose, deer, rabbits, raccoons, porcupines, fox, weasels, black bears, and one Bard owl. An upstate New Yorker by birth, he now lives in the most rural area of far Maine, USA, on 54-acres of land: wooded, lawns, driveways, and a few buildings including his four thousand square foot home which he calls the white house; because it is. Kristopher Quentin has been writing for decades. He is a businessman and journalist by trade, a man up at 3:45 every
David’s heart struggles with his embedded childhood dogma and lethally homophobic parents, propelling him to establish a bond of love with Wyatt, and, when the unthinkable happens, Wyatt is devastated and left alone. They could hardly have been less alike. Both men are sent to Puffin Island and, within days of their arrival a young woman is washed ashore, frozen and unresponsive after her kayak crashes against the rocks. Wyatt is as plain as paper, white as a ghost, graceless, and a celebrated oil painter. David and Wyatt save her life. He is single and he is out. David is striking, blond with an ice melting smile, and possesses an unmistakable gift as a fiction writer. Days later, Wyatt is charged with rape, and, while authorities investigate, the woman’s nineteen-year old twin brothers paddle their way to Puffin to teach Wyatt a lesson. Their goal, to avenge their sister. He turns to the unlikeliest of characters to fill the void, a person who will teach him an important lesson; that to love again he must sacrifice a need that had been created by his past with David.