Sunsets Of Life

‘Sunsets’ by Robin Jones Gunn is book 4 in the Glenbrooke Series of 8. This is a contemporary Christian romance series. Each book can be read separately, but Glenbrooke is a small town where everyone knows everyone, so you will run across other people from the other books in the series. This is Brad’s story, who was introduced in book 3 as Lauren’s brother and partly overlaps with Lauren’s story.

Alissa Benson, who’s 26, works at a travel agency in Pasadena. She needs to move out of her old apartment and has been looking for a place. While getting a coffee, she meets a man that seems rather rude. She later sees him at the office and thinks that he’s following her! Come to find that that Brad works down the street at a computer repair store and is there to fix their work computers. Later that day she finds a note on her computer for a duplex for rent. Everything works out and she becomes roommates with a young woman named Shelly Graham.

Brad Phillips lives next door in the duplex with his roommate Jacob Wartman, Jake to his friends. Brad listened while Alissa made a lot of calls looking for an apartment while he was fixing her computer. He being a nice person, and maybe slightly intrigued by her, left her the note about the duplex. Even though Alissa thought he was rude to her, he thought she would fit in with their little group at the duplex and their landlord Genevieve and her family, who live next door.

Alissa does fit into their group, except that Brad still annoys her. Several people note that the two of them look like a cute couple, but both of them are denying it with everything in them. How can she possibly love someone who is annoying, rude, and just all around strange? They are just too different! Could they ever be friends? And if they can’t be friends then how could they ever fall in love?

An interesting side story is that Alissa and Brad are friends with an older couple named Rosie and Chet. Alissa is enthralled with their story, but only gets it in pieces throughout the book as something always interrupts the telling of their story.

If you like this story, then you’ll be happy to know that there are more stories to come with Shelly, Jake, and Genevieve, her husband Steven and their three daughters. This story is good for all ages, but probably 12+ would like it better. It comes in book and e-book formats.