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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel that explores the dangerous side of desire, when a mystery writer in search of a little peace and quiet instead finds herself ensnared in the world of a real-life serial killer whose craving for murder stops at nothing . . . and no one.
Most of the book focuses on her life before leaving her ultra religious life, which makes sense in terms of time, but I was personally hoping for a bit more on her growth after that. What we get throughout is actually very surface-level, mostly factual retellings of specific events. While the religious side painted a slightly-better insight of her life, the only part in the later of the book that I felt any emotion as a reader was when she first had sex with Lucas .
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Likewise, she actively contradicts herself--which is very human, but that doesn't help me, as a reader, understand her point.
This was my first Nora Roberts, above and beyond a string of J.D. Robb books I read a few years ago. Not what I was expecting. So book #2 definitely does not work as well as book #1 does. The story-line felt very rushed (the hero declares his love for the heroine before they even make love, proposes marriage after they make love for the first time) and the serial rapist/murderer did not work real well. The two leads had no real chemistry and I was more happy to see the return of Tess and Ben then to spend anytime with the new heroine and hero.The book doesn't even really end, it just sputters out with her finally selling her failed brand that has lost tens of thousands of dollars to a company that will take over production and then that's it. Nothing about the past six years, her TV show or why when you see her on Netflix she acts like a dumb nutcase. No real coming-of-age learning about how she would have done life differently or even any demeaning the religious institution she was part of, because even when she left the religious group she continued to rush home on Sabbath and holidays, get in her 1800s outfits, and act like a practitioner. It's very bizarre. Gaia titles bring the world outside your window to life, encompassing all facets of the natural world. This book is not especially well written. There is a lot of repetition and it drags quite a bit. Things like why she didn't take her children with her when she left are repeated over and over across multiple chapters. Certain phrases like "little did I know that this would almost lead to my undoing" or "I was against interminable odds" are used ad nauseum. There was a lot of repetition. ‘I can remember exactly what I was wearing’ is an example of a line I read a good 5 times. If not more.
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