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Nora Roberts/JD Robb
Feb. 7th, 2021 08:28 pmThe Liar
4/5. Upon her husband's death in a boating accident, young mother discovers he was lying about a lot of things, and he's left her with a mountain of debt and a lot of questions. His drama follows her back to her home town, where she's beginning a tentative romance with a local contractor.
From the beginning of Roberts's Home Renovation Period (it's like a Blue Period but with more furniture shopping). I liked this one – the heroine embeds herself back into four generations of family, and there's an emphasis on female friendship (well, except for the requisite mean girl). The romance is, as usual, fine but forgettable. Don't read Nora Roberts for sweeping romance. Read for multiple generations of women being awesome and finding their way through early motherhood and hard times.
Content notes: References to violence, emotional abuse.
Faithless in Death
3/5. My least favorite type of mystery in this series, i.e. the unraveling of a vast international conspiracy as opposed to the solving of an intimate, personal crime. Also, she wrote this one when she was really mad about social justice – this book is really mad about using religion to excuse violence, and everyone's gotta speechify about how homophobia is bad, which, like. I appreciate it, Nora? But maybe try writing a book that contains queer people who are not (a) murdered or (b) evil? Like, just once?
Content notes: Trafficking, domestic violence, rape, forced impregnation, family separation.
4/5. Upon her husband's death in a boating accident, young mother discovers he was lying about a lot of things, and he's left her with a mountain of debt and a lot of questions. His drama follows her back to her home town, where she's beginning a tentative romance with a local contractor.
From the beginning of Roberts's Home Renovation Period (it's like a Blue Period but with more furniture shopping). I liked this one – the heroine embeds herself back into four generations of family, and there's an emphasis on female friendship (well, except for the requisite mean girl). The romance is, as usual, fine but forgettable. Don't read Nora Roberts for sweeping romance. Read for multiple generations of women being awesome and finding their way through early motherhood and hard times.
Content notes: References to violence, emotional abuse.
Faithless in Death
3/5. My least favorite type of mystery in this series, i.e. the unraveling of a vast international conspiracy as opposed to the solving of an intimate, personal crime. Also, she wrote this one when she was really mad about social justice – this book is really mad about using religion to excuse violence, and everyone's gotta speechify about how homophobia is bad, which, like. I appreciate it, Nora? But maybe try writing a book that contains queer people who are not (a) murdered or (b) evil? Like, just once?
Content notes: Trafficking, domestic violence, rape, forced impregnation, family separation.