Nora Roberts
Very complex and interesting book, I really enjoyed it. I loved all the characters,especially Tia and Rebecca, The guys are really nice,tooI liked Jack a lot, I was sooooo angry and sad when , The story is really interesting,the Three Fates are actually historical objects which are,in mythology,symbols/goddesses of destiny, The ending is very satisfying and the main villain is wellwrittenbonus points,
Overall,a good thriller/romance book that will keep you turning pages,
Favourite quotes:
“We cant escape fate, but we can do a great deal to carve our own mark in it to turn it to our advantage or disadvantage.
”
The email from his father made him grin,
"The aliens, having performed hideous medical experimentsof an embarrassingly sexual natureon us, have returned your mother and me to Earth, You can hear all about it on Larry King, Now that I have your attention maybe you could spare five minutes to get in touch, Your mother sends her love, I don't. I like your sister better, Always did. Guess who. "
With a laugh Jack sat down at the keyboard, "Okay, okay. "
"Sorry to hear about the alien experience, Typically, they insert tracking devices in their abductees, You may want to chew on tinfoil while having any personal conversations, as this
is known to jam their frequencies, Just FYI. Recently back in NY. Am keeping gorgeous Irish redhead prisoner in my apartment, Possibility of exotic sexual favors from same may keep me busy for the next couple weeks, Love back to Mom, None to you. I'm not even sure you are my father, You guess who, " This novel was gifted to me by my father, who is ninety, He cant get enough of Roberts, Indeed. The blurb on the jacket says: “Nora Roberts is indisputably the most celebrated and beloved womens fiction writer today, ” The Three Fates refers to Greek mythology, which my father used to read to me before I could read myself, I have fond memories of that, And so I began and then I quit, after readingpages, I was/ths of the way through the story and had had enough, I knew how it would end and didnt care for the characters the heroes or the villain, If Id have thought the villain would triumph, I might have kept going, But time is precious whether or not our time here on earth is fated, It was six against onethree adorable couples against one wicked witch, The three couples It was fate! were so full of love and passion and cutesyeness I had to laugh to keep from vomiting, Thats just me, obviously many people like this kind of drivel, One reviewer objected because she thought the narrative “unconvincing, ” She was being kind. I think this kind of writing and story does a disserviceputting fanciful notions in the heads of readers that become an ideal and then an expectation and then a projection and finally heartbreak, grief, despair and blame.
Hey, Im all for joy and the pursuit of happiness but that that is fated and linked to your “soul mate,” is just nonsense and a dream buster.
People, real people, dont talk and act like these characters, Okay, its fiction but fiction informs people about life and remember,years ago people didnt know much of the way things are, So here we have layer upon layer of fantasy wrapped up as titillating destiny, I think its fine for a man or a woman ofyears to read this stuff hey, they can look back and rewrite their story if the want, if it brings them joy but dad, grandma, whoever dont try and tell your kids or grandkids that that is the way it went down.
I was there. So, having set aside THREE FATES, I walked into the bookstore and saw ANTHROPOLOGY OF AN AMERICAN GIRL, by Hilary Thayer Hamann which was on my list of books I wanted to read.
Now heres a promising novel hmmmm, fate
This was another excellent romantic suspense title by Nora Roberts, It was like her trilogies all in one book, It starts with the sinking of the Lusitania in, A petty thief steals a statue from a rich man just as the torpedo hits, He saves a young woman and her threeyearold child and manages to survive himself, A changed man, he lives is life in Ireland,
Almostyears later, his descendants Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca need to recover the treasured statue which was stolen from them by an unscrupulous antiques dealer.
They also want to find the other two statues that were part of the set,
Malachi's search leads him to Tia Marsh a descendant of the original owner who died on the Lusitania, Tia is a Ph. D. who is also a hypochondriac and germaphobe because that's the way her mother raised her, Gideon goes after Cleo Toliver who is a descendant of someone who likely had the second statue back in, She's currently stripping in a club in Prague after being dumped and robbed by her boyfriend and looking to earn enough money to get back to New York.
Jack Burdett has the third statue inherited from his greatgrandfather the little boy the thief saved, He's a security expert and has a worldwide security company, When Anita Gaye the unscrupulous antiques dealer calls him to try to track down Cleo, he travels to Ireland, meets Rebecca, and gets involved in the hunt.
The was an excellent heist story as the six heroes need to trick Anita Gaye out of the statue she stole from Malachi and also prove that she murdered Cleo's friend in her quest to gain control of all three of the Fates.
It was also an excellent romance novel since all the characters fall in love, Nora Roberts' talent for writing strong characters, strong stories of friendship, and strong romances is very visible here,
Bernadette Quigley did an excellent job with the narration and distinguishing all of the main characters vocally, The three fates of Greek mythology, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, United, they hold the fate of the human life in their handsone spins the thread of life, the other measures it, the third cuts it.
Yet their statues have been separated for ages, One was stolen, only to be saved by being lost forever at the bottom of the ocean, and two were passed on through generation.
Yet the thread continues to spin, waiting to be measured, and cut, Waiting for the three Fates to reunite once again,
It will take three couples, three siblings, and their fated ones, to bring the Fates back together, Their threads have been spun, and connected, and nothing and no one can stand in their way,
I started to read this book a few years back, but after finishing chapter two, I put it back on my shelf.
I have no idea why, maybe I wasn't in the right mood, Or maybe it was my first NR book and I haven't gotten used to her yet,
Anyway, I picked this story up once again, and I couldn't put it down until I was finished, It reads like one of NR's trilogies, just condensed into one story, Which is both a pity because I love her trilogies, and a blessing because some of the main characters were rather annoying, I usually like NR heroines, but the three in this one were just a bit too much for me to handle, the shy, phobic hypochondriac, and the "reckless" Irish gal were okay, I guess, but I just can't get over the idiotic exotic dancer that has pretty much put everybody in danger, because she foolishly thought she could handle it.
Yeah, right. The guys should've been made saints, especially the younger Sullivan brother,
Once I got past the heroines, it took some time and work to do that, everything else was spot on, The suspense, the romance, the pacing, the plot, the final resolution, . . It was great, tight, gripping, and intense, As a NR story should be, The first and only Nora Roberts book I have ever read, A friend of mine who is a addict for this author was trying to explain what makes them all so good, I was just curious since the woman must never sleep since she seems to put out a new book like everymonths,
Anyways my friend recommended this one since it revolves around I say that extremely loosely Greek mythology and some nautical history, All in all, as expected the facts weren't all there but it was actually pretty entertaining,
I still don't read any other Roberts books, but I have actually reread this one, Tried and the first part pulled me in but once we got to the story itself I started to lose interest, I really enjoyed this story with lots of action that moved right along, I especially liked that it had three romances each with their own conflict and resolution all during a complex endeavor searching for treasure, Siblings Malachi, Gideon and Rebecca are trying to obtain three small statues and each person takes a different path, This book was recommended to me by my bff Tina, It was hard for me to get into this book because it was kinda slow in the begining but I was told by my bff Tina, multiple times to keep going.
She was right! I really enjoyed this read and will definitely recommend it,
It starts with a thief named Felix Greenfield who is aboard the Lusitania, He enters the room of Henry W, Wyley and steals a little silver statue moments before the ship goes down, While on a mission to save only himself, he ends of saving the life of a mother and young infant that would change his life.
He later marries and lives out the rest of his life in Ireland, Little did he know, how important that little silver lady would be centuries later,
Felix' descendants, the Sullivan's had the statue appraised by Anita Gaye, a money hungry gold digger that married a man before he died.
: hehe She later seduces Malachi, the oldest son, and steals it from him,
The Sullivan's and Anita Gaye fight to retrieve the other two statues to unite the Three Fates, While pursuing the statues, they meet other descendants/future lovers that will help them on their adventure, Anita Gaye, however, will stop at nothing and kill anyone who gets in her way,.Happy and light . lots of Romance! Oh, I loved this book you get three completly different love stores in one book! Yeah!!!
I also loved how the histories of thier families were woven together it was FATE! LOL
A lovely, easy to read and full of funny moments! Nora ne încântă cu o poveste extraordinar de frumoasă, cu legende străvechi, blesteme, dragoste, crime si sacrificiu.
Avem o poveste care are la bazaparce,statuete care reprezintă trei ursitoare : una care toarce firul vieții, una care il măsoară si una care ii pune capăt.
Trei statuete aparent banale, fiecare separat nu valorează nimic, dar împreună sunt indestructibile,
Si mai avem doi supraviețuitori de pe un vas de croazieră, ai căror urmasi se vor lupta pentru a reuni cele trei parce.
Mia plăcut mult de Tia, cu toate fricile ei, cu fobiile si cu fixurile ei, Si mia placut de Malachi, care a văzut dincolo de tot ce ascundea Tia si care sia dat seama ce femeie uimitoare se ascunde in spatele a ceea ce vrea Tia sa vada cei din jurul ei.
Mia plăcut mult de tot, extraordinar de mult de Rebecca si de Cleo, mai ales de Cleo,
Cele trei personaje principale feminine sunt extrem de diferite, dar extrem de puternice in acelasi timp, ca si eroii masculini Mal, Gideon si Jack.
Cele trei cupluri vor face tot posibilul sa reuneasca parcele si vor face sacrificii mari pentru a reusi,
Pe ei îi leagă dragostea si ambiția de a afla adevarul,
Avem parte de crime, de dramă, de secrete dorite sa ramana ascunse si de dragoste,
Recomand din suflet tuturor! Twohaiku review:
Three silver statues
Six people looking for them
Love for three couples
Ireland and New York
Bad collector, violence
Typical Nora.
posted on sitelinkGot Fiction book blog
I really love Nora Roberts' PNR trilogies, Like a lot. There's very little info about this book, and she tends to have a lot of duologies and anthologies of her own books so I sort of made an educated guess that this wasbooks in one.
It mentioned The Fates a few times in the first few pages, and I was happy enough to think I was getting a ParaNora.
I was sort of right More to the wrong side,
This is set up inpartsone for each Fate I guess, But it's not three separate books, it's one, It's not PNR at all, It is interwoven as if the Fates themselves wove the plot, See what I did there
Instead ofseparate books in one, it's really just one really long book, But we haveromances. It's a little different from her typical trilogies in the sense that although it's broken intoparts, they aren't a separate romance for each couple.
It's more a section per Fate,
The main plot is that there was a set of statues, the Fates, that were broken up, One was taken on board the Lusitania and when she sank, the Fate went to the bottom of the ocean,
But someone believes she's out there, And thinks her sisters are too, He thinks this because he has one, His ancestor stole it from the original owner, But someone else stole it, He's gonna find the other two statues and steal his back,
Enter the first couple, Tia is a germaphobe, an introvert, a hypochondriac, and she's brilliant, She's convinced by her therapist that it would be good for her to go to Europe for a book tour for her latest book on mythology, when Malachi finds her.
His goal is to wine her and dine her to see if she has a line on one of the statues, One of her ancestors was on the Lusitania with hers, But he falls hard for her,
Next the second couple, Malachi's brother Gideon and a stripper in Prague, Malachi went asking if she knew about it, but she's got an endgoal of making it back to the States, She may or may not know about the silver statue, but she'll only help him if he takes her back to New York, nevermind he lives in Ireland.
But before they can make much progress, two thugs turn up and try to kill them,
The third couple is Malachi and Gideon's sister Rebecca, and she is in Ireland running their tour boat business while the brothers are off gallivanting around the world.
Jack is the owner of a security company and he's been brought into this by the villain of the piece, But what she doesn't know is that he can't be bought and he isn't on her side, But I can honestly say I think he was my favorite character in the whole book, He took one look at Becca and that was it for him,
The six of them all gather together in Tia's New York apartment and discuss how best to get the Fates and the mystery plus the weaving of the Fates throughout their lives is one thing Nora Roberts excels at.
The beginning is slow, I almost gave up on it because I was so bored, But once the pieces start to fall into place, I really enjoyed the story, It's so funny to read a book from the earlys I think and read about Palm Pilots and email, but not have phones the way we have them now.
It wasn't all that long ago, but I instantly expected everyone to have a cell phone if not a smart phone, Side note: it's so frustrating to read a romantic suspense from before smart phones, You want to shake the characters and shout "take a picture and text it to someone!" not realizing they didn't have them back then.
But the book was enjoyable and I liked the direction it went, I think one of the best things about a Nora Roberts book is that you really know what you're going to get, You get a happy ending for everyone,
This was a library book
,
a ride! I was fully hooked on this NR from the beginning scenes on the Lusitania, and I never wanted to put it down.
Her books tend to be very hit or miss, and this one was a hit, That said, there are definitely some things that don't age well, most especially the buryyourgays trope and the use of the slur against the Romani several times throughout the book.
Aside from that, I enjoyed all the characters, and I was actually pleasantly surprised at the handling of a stripper heroine, It's a fun adventure if you can get past the dated rep,
''Fate isn't black or white, right or left, People aren't just plopped down and made to follow one route in life on the whims of the gods, If that were true, we'd have to say Hitler was only a victim of his own destiny, and therefore blameless, . . We have decisions to make, actions to take, good ones and bad ones that make up the texture of our lives, Everything we do or don't do matters, . . Everything counts at the end of the day, . . we have a pattern to make, We have to see it through, try to find a way to complete it, ''
Very complex and interesting book, I really enjoyed it. I loved all the characters,especially Tia and Rebecca, The guys are really nice,tooI liked Jack a lot, I was sooooo angry and sad when , The story is really interesting,the Three Fates are actually historical objects which are,in mythology,symbols/goddesses of destiny, The ending is very satisfying and the main villain is wellwrittenbonus points,
Overall,a good thriller/romance book that will keep you turning pages,
Favourite quotes:
“We cant escape fate, but we can do a great deal to carve our own mark in it to turn it to our advantage or disadvantage.
”
The email from his father made him grin,
"The aliens, having performed hideous medical experimentsof an embarrassingly sexual natureon us, have returned your mother and me to Earth, You can hear all about it on Larry King, Now that I have your attention maybe you could spare five minutes to get in touch, Your mother sends her love, I don't. I like your sister better, Always did. Guess who. "
With a laugh Jack sat down at the keyboard, "Okay, okay. "
"Sorry to hear about the alien experience, Typically, they insert tracking devices in their abductees, You may want to chew on tinfoil while having any personal conversations, as this
is known to jam their frequencies, Just FYI. Recently back in NY. Am keeping gorgeous Irish redhead prisoner in my apartment, Possibility of exotic sexual favors from same may keep me busy for the next couple weeks, Love back to Mom, None to you. I'm not even sure you are my father, You guess who, " This novel was gifted to me by my father, who is ninety, He cant get enough of Roberts, Indeed. The blurb on the jacket says: “Nora Roberts is indisputably the most celebrated and beloved womens fiction writer today, ” The Three Fates refers to Greek mythology, which my father used to read to me before I could read myself, I have fond memories of that, And so I began and then I quit, after readingpages, I was/ths of the way through the story and had had enough, I knew how it would end and didnt care for the characters the heroes or the villain, If Id have thought the villain would triumph, I might have kept going, But time is precious whether or not our time here on earth is fated, It was six against onethree adorable couples against one wicked witch, The three couples It was fate! were so full of love and passion and cutesyeness I had to laugh to keep from vomiting, Thats just me, obviously many people like this kind of drivel, One reviewer objected because she thought the narrative “unconvincing, ” She was being kind. I think this kind of writing and story does a disserviceputting fanciful notions in the heads of readers that become an ideal and then an expectation and then a projection and finally heartbreak, grief, despair and blame.
Hey, Im all for joy and the pursuit of happiness but that that is fated and linked to your “soul mate,” is just nonsense and a dream buster.
People, real people, dont talk and act like these characters, Okay, its fiction but fiction informs people about life and remember,years ago people didnt know much of the way things are, So here we have layer upon layer of fantasy wrapped up as titillating destiny, I think its fine for a man or a woman ofyears to read this stuff hey, they can look back and rewrite their story if the want, if it brings them joy but dad, grandma, whoever dont try and tell your kids or grandkids that that is the way it went down.
I was there. So, having set aside THREE FATES, I walked into the bookstore and saw ANTHROPOLOGY OF AN AMERICAN GIRL, by Hilary Thayer Hamann which was on my list of books I wanted to read.
Now heres a promising novel hmmmm, fate
This was another excellent romantic suspense title by Nora Roberts, It was like her trilogies all in one book, It starts with the sinking of the Lusitania in, A petty thief steals a statue from a rich man just as the torpedo hits, He saves a young woman and her threeyearold child and manages to survive himself, A changed man, he lives is life in Ireland,
Almostyears later, his descendants Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca need to recover the treasured statue which was stolen from them by an unscrupulous antiques dealer.
They also want to find the other two statues that were part of the set,
Malachi's search leads him to Tia Marsh a descendant of the original owner who died on the Lusitania, Tia is a Ph. D. who is also a hypochondriac and germaphobe because that's the way her mother raised her, Gideon goes after Cleo Toliver who is a descendant of someone who likely had the second statue back in, She's currently stripping in a club in Prague after being dumped and robbed by her boyfriend and looking to earn enough money to get back to New York.
Jack Burdett has the third statue inherited from his greatgrandfather the little boy the thief saved, He's a security expert and has a worldwide security company, When Anita Gaye the unscrupulous antiques dealer calls him to try to track down Cleo, he travels to Ireland, meets Rebecca, and gets involved in the hunt.
The was an excellent heist story as the six heroes need to trick Anita Gaye out of the statue she stole from Malachi and also prove that she murdered Cleo's friend in her quest to gain control of all three of the Fates.
It was also an excellent romance novel since all the characters fall in love, Nora Roberts' talent for writing strong characters, strong stories of friendship, and strong romances is very visible here,
Bernadette Quigley did an excellent job with the narration and distinguishing all of the main characters vocally, The three fates of Greek mythology, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, United, they hold the fate of the human life in their handsone spins the thread of life, the other measures it, the third cuts it.
Yet their statues have been separated for ages, One was stolen, only to be saved by being lost forever at the bottom of the ocean, and two were passed on through generation.
Yet the thread continues to spin, waiting to be measured, and cut, Waiting for the three Fates to reunite once again,
It will take three couples, three siblings, and their fated ones, to bring the Fates back together, Their threads have been spun, and connected, and nothing and no one can stand in their way,
I started to read this book a few years back, but after finishing chapter two, I put it back on my shelf.
I have no idea why, maybe I wasn't in the right mood, Or maybe it was my first NR book and I haven't gotten used to her yet,
Anyway, I picked this story up once again, and I couldn't put it down until I was finished, It reads like one of NR's trilogies, just condensed into one story, Which is both a pity because I love her trilogies, and a blessing because some of the main characters were rather annoying, I usually like NR heroines, but the three in this one were just a bit too much for me to handle, the shy, phobic hypochondriac, and the "reckless" Irish gal were okay, I guess, but I just can't get over the idiotic exotic dancer that has pretty much put everybody in danger, because she foolishly thought she could handle it.
Yeah, right. The guys should've been made saints, especially the younger Sullivan brother,
Once I got past the heroines, it took some time and work to do that, everything else was spot on, The suspense, the romance, the pacing, the plot, the final resolution, . . It was great, tight, gripping, and intense, As a NR story should be, The first and only Nora Roberts book I have ever read, A friend of mine who is a addict for this author was trying to explain what makes them all so good, I was just curious since the woman must never sleep since she seems to put out a new book like everymonths,
Anyways my friend recommended this one since it revolves around I say that extremely loosely Greek mythology and some nautical history, All in all, as expected the facts weren't all there but it was actually pretty entertaining,
I still don't read any other Roberts books, but I have actually reread this one, Tried and the first part pulled me in but once we got to the story itself I started to lose interest, I really enjoyed this story with lots of action that moved right along, I especially liked that it had three romances each with their own conflict and resolution all during a complex endeavor searching for treasure, Siblings Malachi, Gideon and Rebecca are trying to obtain three small statues and each person takes a different path, This book was recommended to me by my bff Tina, It was hard for me to get into this book because it was kinda slow in the begining but I was told by my bff Tina, multiple times to keep going.
She was right! I really enjoyed this read and will definitely recommend it,
It starts with a thief named Felix Greenfield who is aboard the Lusitania, He enters the room of Henry W, Wyley and steals a little silver statue moments before the ship goes down, While on a mission to save only himself, he ends of saving the life of a mother and young infant that would change his life.
He later marries and lives out the rest of his life in Ireland, Little did he know, how important that little silver lady would be centuries later,
Felix' descendants, the Sullivan's had the statue appraised by Anita Gaye, a money hungry gold digger that married a man before he died.
: hehe She later seduces Malachi, the oldest son, and steals it from him,
The Sullivan's and Anita Gaye fight to retrieve the other two statues to unite the Three Fates, While pursuing the statues, they meet other descendants/future lovers that will help them on their adventure, Anita Gaye, however, will stop at nothing and kill anyone who gets in her way,.Happy and light . lots of Romance! Oh, I loved this book you get three completly different love stores in one book! Yeah!!!
I also loved how the histories of thier families were woven together it was FATE! LOL
A lovely, easy to read and full of funny moments! Nora ne încântă cu o poveste extraordinar de frumoasă, cu legende străvechi, blesteme, dragoste, crime si sacrificiu.
Avem o poveste care are la bazaparce,statuete care reprezintă trei ursitoare : una care toarce firul vieții, una care il măsoară si una care ii pune capăt.
Trei statuete aparent banale, fiecare separat nu valorează nimic, dar împreună sunt indestructibile,
Si mai avem doi supraviețuitori de pe un vas de croazieră, ai căror urmasi se vor lupta pentru a reuni cele trei parce.
Mia plăcut mult de Tia, cu toate fricile ei, cu fobiile si cu fixurile ei, Si mia placut de Malachi, care a văzut dincolo de tot ce ascundea Tia si care sia dat seama ce femeie uimitoare se ascunde in spatele a ceea ce vrea Tia sa vada cei din jurul ei.
Mia plăcut mult de tot, extraordinar de mult de Rebecca si de Cleo, mai ales de Cleo,
Cele trei personaje principale feminine sunt extrem de diferite, dar extrem de puternice in acelasi timp, ca si eroii masculini Mal, Gideon si Jack.
Cele trei cupluri vor face tot posibilul sa reuneasca parcele si vor face sacrificii mari pentru a reusi,
Pe ei îi leagă dragostea si ambiția de a afla adevarul,
Avem parte de crime, de dramă, de secrete dorite sa ramana ascunse si de dragoste,
Recomand din suflet tuturor! Twohaiku review:
Three silver statues
Six people looking for them
Love for three couples
Ireland and New York
Bad collector, violence
Typical Nora.
posted on sitelinkGot Fiction book blog
I really love Nora Roberts' PNR trilogies, Like a lot. There's very little info about this book, and she tends to have a lot of duologies and anthologies of her own books so I sort of made an educated guess that this wasbooks in one.
It mentioned The Fates a few times in the first few pages, and I was happy enough to think I was getting a ParaNora.
I was sort of right More to the wrong side,
This is set up inpartsone for each Fate I guess, But it's not three separate books, it's one, It's not PNR at all, It is interwoven as if the Fates themselves wove the plot, See what I did there
Instead ofseparate books in one, it's really just one really long book, But we haveromances. It's a little different from her typical trilogies in the sense that although it's broken intoparts, they aren't a separate romance for each couple.
It's more a section per Fate,
The main plot is that there was a set of statues, the Fates, that were broken up, One was taken on board the Lusitania and when she sank, the Fate went to the bottom of the ocean,
But someone believes she's out there, And thinks her sisters are too, He thinks this because he has one, His ancestor stole it from the original owner, But someone else stole it, He's gonna find the other two statues and steal his back,
Enter the first couple, Tia is a germaphobe, an introvert, a hypochondriac, and she's brilliant, She's convinced by her therapist that it would be good for her to go to Europe for a book tour for her latest book on mythology, when Malachi finds her.
His goal is to wine her and dine her to see if she has a line on one of the statues, One of her ancestors was on the Lusitania with hers, But he falls hard for her,
Next the second couple, Malachi's brother Gideon and a stripper in Prague, Malachi went asking if she knew about it, but she's got an endgoal of making it back to the States, She may or may not know about the silver statue, but she'll only help him if he takes her back to New York, nevermind he lives in Ireland.
But before they can make much progress, two thugs turn up and try to kill them,
The third couple is Malachi and Gideon's sister Rebecca, and she is in Ireland running their tour boat business while the brothers are off gallivanting around the world.
Jack is the owner of a security company and he's been brought into this by the villain of the piece, But what she doesn't know is that he can't be bought and he isn't on her side, But I can honestly say I think he was my favorite character in the whole book, He took one look at Becca and that was it for him,
The six of them all gather together in Tia's New York apartment and discuss how best to get the Fates and the mystery plus the weaving of the Fates throughout their lives is one thing Nora Roberts excels at.
The beginning is slow, I almost gave up on it because I was so bored, But once the pieces start to fall into place, I really enjoyed the story, It's so funny to read a book from the earlys I think and read about Palm Pilots and email, but not have phones the way we have them now.
It wasn't all that long ago, but I instantly expected everyone to have a cell phone if not a smart phone, Side note: it's so frustrating to read a romantic suspense from before smart phones, You want to shake the characters and shout "take a picture and text it to someone!" not realizing they didn't have them back then.
But the book was enjoyable and I liked the direction it went, I think one of the best things about a Nora Roberts book is that you really know what you're going to get, You get a happy ending for everyone,
This was a library book
,