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At Close Range
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251 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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July 3, 2011
At Close Range is the second Ranch Milagro book and I really loved it.
Corrie along with her two friends is the co-owner and has left her job. She was a journalist but it never felt right to her, she always had to shore up courage to talk to people. She loves being around kids because she understands them, she was an orphan and was always the good one, the quiet one. She kept calm.
Mack comes for an interview for the position of a teacher at the ranch for the kids. Corrie isn't sure first but when she sees him handle one of the kid really well, she hires him. Mack is looking for some peace and quiet, some miracle. He has always been a teacher, but ghosts haunt him that make him unable to sleep. The world considers him a hero since he saved many children is a school fire-bomb but he only remembers the screams of the five kids he couldn't save. Listening to Corrie's voice on the radio helped him, she is different than what he imagined, quiet and almost child-like with the kids and he is attracted to her.
Corrie notices that Mack has problems, not just his physical burns but more. He seems to be concerned about security, he also tried to maintain a distance even though he is good with the kids. They kiss but Corrie doesn't feel courageous enough to ask for more and Mack doesn't know if he has anything left to offer.
I loved the book, how we see Mack heal, how Corrie confesses her childhood to Mack in an effort to heal him, how Mack sees Corrie realize that preparing children is not stealing their childhood but something that needs to be done. I loved seeing Corrie deal with her realize, that emotion can be channeled for the one's you love.
My only quibble was for the end scenes, the whole suspense/action element.
4 stars
Corrie along with her two friends is the co-owner and has left her job. She was a journalist but it never felt right to her, she always had to shore up courage to talk to people. She loves being around kids because she understands them, she was an orphan and was always the good one, the quiet one. She kept calm.
Mack comes for an interview for the position of a teacher at the ranch for the kids. Corrie isn't sure first but when she sees him handle one of the kid really well, she hires him. Mack is looking for some peace and quiet, some miracle. He has always been a teacher, but ghosts haunt him that make him unable to sleep. The world considers him a hero since he saved many children is a school fire-bomb but he only remembers the screams of the five kids he couldn't save. Listening to Corrie's voice on the radio helped him, she is different than what he imagined, quiet and almost child-like with the kids and he is attracted to her.
Corrie notices that Mack has problems, not just his physical burns but more. He seems to be concerned about security, he also tried to maintain a distance even though he is good with the kids. They kiss but Corrie doesn't feel courageous enough to ask for more and Mack doesn't know if he has anything left to offer.
I loved the book, how we see Mack heal, how Corrie confesses her childhood to Mack in an effort to heal him, how Mack sees Corrie realize that preparing children is not stealing their childhood but something that needs to be done. I loved seeing Corrie deal with her realize, that emotion can be channeled for the one's you love.
My only quibble was for the end scenes, the whole suspense/action element.
4 stars
May 28, 2012
Fantastic ending! Children setting boody traps is awesome. Liked Mack a lot, felt ambivalent to Corrie. I tend to wince when I see the phrase "woman child". Yuck. But she was actually pretty cool despite of how Mack perceived her. Did I mention the ending was great?
April 6, 2013
This is a beautiful story, with strong characters that don't act according to clichés.
May 22, 2015
Not sure
Back story was ok, action and suspense was good. There was romance and it was ok, but for me it was missing something and I can't figure out what. Just something.
Back story was ok, action and suspense was good. There was romance and it was ok, but for me it was missing something and I can't figure out what. Just something.
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