BRAZEN VIRTUE by Nora Roberts

My Thoughts:
I had high expectation for this book, mainly because of the promising storyline, and that fact that Nora Roberts wrote it. BRAZEN VIRTUE is the first on my "no" list of her books. I found the book to be decent, but was it good enough to recommend to anyone? Not really. I felt that different parts of the story (suspense vs romance) were competing with each other and neither side got 100% effort put into it, both sides lacked greatly. The characters were okay, but then their personalities got on my nerves (especially Jerald and company), I didn't care for some choices about what they did or said (this would be aimed more at Grace and Ed), and it seemed they just kept having the same conversations over and over. Another thing I didn't care for was that some scenes seemed to drag on, and usually those scenes were almost pointless. There were some parts of the book that were good, but at the end of the day that fact was that BRAZEN VIRTUE was very predictable. Very. It's not a book I'd recommend, and I think if someone made it their first Nora Roberts read they wouldn't get the experience of how good her books normally are. Nora Roberts is a "yes", but that doesn't apply to this book.

Favorite Quotes:
"Shouting at Kathleen was the equivalent of reading War and Peace in the dark. All you got was a headache and no understanding." (Page 44)
"He could miss something, something vital, if he thought of the way she was sitting in the other room like a broken doll." (Page 57)
"There was a smell of violation in this house." (Page 61)
Grace ~ "Didn't you ever want to go right for the heart of it and the hell with the details?" (Page 180)
"This was the most vital story she'd ever manipulated." (Page 213)

Overall Opinion: C

~Kayla
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