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Nora Roberts sundry
Dec. 21st, 2019 12:13 pmNora Roberts grab bag. I did these like jello shots, guys, and I might be slightly queasy now.
The Obsession
3/5. The one where Nora Roberts really wanted to write 130,000 words on home rennovation and fournishing, and slapped a serial killer plot around the edges, but really guys, let's talk about flooring options and antique furniture. I mean, this does also have a nice arc of a traumatized loner builds a community but, come on, you know you want to hear about these bathroom tiles.
The Search
3/5. The one with all the doggos. Also a serial killer, but mostly doggos and dog training and search-and-rescue dogs. This holds up to very light scrutiny, at least to my eye as a person who teamed with working dogs for fourteen years. But I suspect she got a lot of this off Wikipedia or, like, a Netflix documentary. Whatever. I liked it. Carry on, Nora.
The Witness
2/5. Yeech. The one I wanted to like because the heroine can be read to be on the spectrum if you want to go that way. But I couldn't like it because this is one of the worst examples of Roberts' preferred brand of hero, the extremely pushy guy who acts in a way that would get any sensible woman's hackles up, let alone the extremely self-protective heroine's, except it's cool everybody, he's a nice guy ™ so he can do that.
Content notes: Rape, murder, child abuse, serial killers who hate women. Can do specifics, as usual.
The Obsession
3/5. The one where Nora Roberts really wanted to write 130,000 words on home rennovation and fournishing, and slapped a serial killer plot around the edges, but really guys, let's talk about flooring options and antique furniture. I mean, this does also have a nice arc of a traumatized loner builds a community but, come on, you know you want to hear about these bathroom tiles.
The Search
3/5. The one with all the doggos. Also a serial killer, but mostly doggos and dog training and search-and-rescue dogs. This holds up to very light scrutiny, at least to my eye as a person who teamed with working dogs for fourteen years. But I suspect she got a lot of this off Wikipedia or, like, a Netflix documentary. Whatever. I liked it. Carry on, Nora.
The Witness
2/5. Yeech. The one I wanted to like because the heroine can be read to be on the spectrum if you want to go that way. But I couldn't like it because this is one of the worst examples of Roberts' preferred brand of hero, the extremely pushy guy who acts in a way that would get any sensible woman's hackles up, let alone the extremely self-protective heroine's, except it's cool everybody, he's a nice guy ™ so he can do that.
Content notes: Rape, murder, child abuse, serial killers who hate women. Can do specifics, as usual.