Cobb Island

Blayne Cooper has done it again! I loved this book. She has created a world where love, lust, desire, and the paranormal go hand in hand. Cobb Island was a thrilling and very enjoyable read. The book flowed well from present day to the 1600's in a blink of an eye and then back again! You will fall in love with three sets of characters: Marcy and Doug (16year olds/first love), Kayla and Liv(soulmates and younger couple's sisters), and finally star-crossed lovers and sister-in-laws from the 1600's Bridget Redding and Faylynn Cobb Redding. Will all these couples make it or will their flames burn out? This book also has great villians: Cyril Redding (Faylynn's abusive husband/Bridget's brother) and Elizabeth Redding (Bridget's sweet niece NOT!) Will these villians get just what they deserve or will they rain terror on the Redding family through out history? All of these characters, good or bad, are well written. Cobb Island is a thrilling mystery ride through time. It has true love, wicked humor, first loves, and mind reading/supernatural powers. What more could you ask for? Ok...I forgot the sex and how can you forget that? The story itself was a good one and well written. I highly recommend this book and I will keep it in my collection to read again! Blayne Cooper is a talented writer and I have enjoyed everything I have read from her. I look forward to Echos in the Mist.

I, for one, think Blanyne Cooper is one of the top 5 authors in the lesbian fiction genre. Her books are extremenly well written, interesting and sexually graphic. With 'Cobb Island' she has done it once again. I first read this book over a year ago and had an itch to revisit it recently... It was better the second time around. Kayla Redding and Olivia Hazelwood chaperone their younger siblings, lovebirds Marcy and Doug, on a one-week trip to Cobb Island. The island has been owned by Kayla's family for years and hides several paranormal family secrets. While looking for an old diary (called a 'family history') Kayla and Liv discover the story of Bridget and Failynn, two of Kayla's ancestors. Kayla and Olivia had never met before this outing, but feel an otherworldly attraction from the second they are introduced. That, coupled with an intense dislike of each other, makes for a very interesting dynamic. Doug and Marcy sneak away for some time alone on the mainland when a storm hits. Liv is deathly afraid of thunderstorms and is stuck with the mysterious Kayla. Kayla convinces Liv to help her look for the diary in the bowels of the house - a place where the storm can be forgotten. They discover the family history and proceed to read it together. While they learn more about Bridgett and Faylinn, they begin to give in to their mutual attraction. In the meantime, Doug and Marcy suffer through a night in a shady motel and give in to their own mutual attraction. This is an enjoyable, spooky story that entertains. However, it isn't an emotional roller coaster ride that will stick with the reader for days on end. Highly recommended if you're looking for quality entertainment.

I love historical romances and was delightfully surprised that this novel included a wonderful romance dating back to colonial times. I bought the book expecting a well written thriller/mystery with alot of humor about two women (strangers) who bring their younger siblings together on a vacation and find love. As a bonus I got an additional heart wrenching romance set centuries earlier. I also got to flash back to how extremely irritating and irresponsible teenagers can be. I just wanted to throttle the younger siblings. So, yes, this book stirred me up! The realistic prose is perfect for the story and one paragraph flowed into another. I didn't want the story to end. I'd like to call this a romance because it is romantic but it is so much more. The characters are truly likable and human and comic. The dialogue is wonderfully written and left me racing from page to page.

Olivia Hazelwood, Liv to her friends, has agreed to take her younger brother, Doug to spend a week on Cobb Island, off the coast of Virginia. Since an accident claimed their parents a decade ago, Livi has been more of a mother than sister to Doug. The 29 year old linguist and openly lesbian, Liv is recently back from a Peace Corps tour in Africa and is looking forward to catching up with the changes in Doug's life. One of the biggest being that he is very much in love with Marcy Redding. Marcy's family moved last year and the teens have been nursing their love over distance. This separation has prompted Marcy to invite Doug (and Liv)to visit Cobb Island, the colonial era, ancestral home of the Redding family. Marcy has also coaxed her older sister, Kayla to help with the chaperoning duties. The tall redheaded Kayla seems to take an immediate dislike to Doug, and possibly, to Liv. Certainly the gorgeous 25 year old has difficulty communicating with Liv in anything other than an abrupt, rather rude, not to mention secretive, manner. Her behavior is even more odd given that the women seem almost magnetically drawn to one another. Liv is surprised, confused, and a little overwhelmed by the intensity of her feelings for Kayla. Impossibly, at times Kayla seems to read Liv's mind. Or is it impossible? The three century old Redding house itself, with its secret rooms, strange noises, and a library filled with generations of Redding enigmas has as important a role in the story as any of the characters. Several things about Kayla and the house are a little strange, yet enchanting. Liv finds herself falling under the spell of both mysteries. Meanwhile, desperate for time alone, the lovesick teens decide to visit the mainland just as a storm arises, leaving their older siblings stranded and forced to confront these powerful emotions. Trapped by the storm, the women begin researching the early years of the house. Finding a hidden journal, Liv and Kayla discover possible answers to the Redding family legacy via a third romance. Bridget Redding, and her sister-in-law, Failynn, lived on Cobb Island in the late 1600s and struggled to find a place for their love in an unforgiving time for women, and condemning of those who dared to love. Could their story hold the secret answers to questions about the Redding family, the house on Cobb Island, and possibly even why Kayla and Liv seem destined to have found each other? Thus Cobb Island contains three love stories entwined in its pages along with a number of witty interactions, sweet moments and endearing scenes between the various couples. There is even a dreadful villain who demands being detested. Overall, Cobb Island is a magical little romance and a charming mystery. A few of the plot threads are not neatly tied at the end and some elements of the historical period appear a bit anachronistic to this reviewer. Nevertheless, the overall effect of Cobb Island is a fun and fast-paced romantic mystery with a touch

  Cobb Island is one of the best stories I've ever read! Even after the third reading, I still find myself drawn into the suspense. It's not easy writing for two main characters and keeping it believable, compelling and flowing. Ms. Cooper is able to achieve this with four main characters with great success! Job well done, Ms. Cooper. I look forward to all of your writings!