Pretty Good

[lehcarrebrab]

44/100: High Noon, by Nora Roberts - This was the first real novel of hers that I've read; the other was a collection of three novellas/short stories.  This one was much, much better.

She did use the term "fisted" again, but only once, and I gave her a pass, since she used it in the context of "standing with her fists on her hips".

She sure does seem

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[rinkatur]

Her trilogys are better. The Irish Trilogy, Jewels Trilogy, Chesapeake Trilogy, Circle Trilogy and In the Garden are the best of the lot, in my opinion. I have not been as impressed with her stand alone stuff, it seems to be lacking the depth of the trilogy stuff.

[lehcarrebrab]

Have you read this one yet?

Granted, I haven't read any of her others, but I thought this one had a lot of depth and very well-developed characters.

The heroine is a hostage negotiator for the Savannah PD, who lives with her 7-year-old daughter and her mom, who's an agoraphobe. I thought she handled the mom's illness very nicely; it would have been easy to just make her a crazy shut-in, but she wasn't.

And I'm not a cop or a negotiator, but it seemed to me that the cop talk was authentic without being cliched.

If you haven't read it yet, I do recommend it. :D