NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
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As I said I just started it. I got to book 7. I'm actually ashamed to admit that only reason I started it is because audiobook was available in library and I wanted to listen to something while working. :D After first, I got all others until job was done. Interesting. I find Mavis little irritating, but I like Peabody. :D
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Another one who ran away from an abusive spouse and she's just so angelic and sweet and perfect..blech. Mind you, this is all based on a really spotty memory of the book and character,.."
Aren't most of them nice, sweet, perfect with something terrible in their past? :D And then perfect (beautiful, rich, successful,...) guy comes along and shows her what real love is? Or I'm too much under impression of last read books? :D

I love Peabody!
Well, some of the heroines are strong and feisty, which I suppose is another trope of sorts, especially when it comes to those Irish redheads. The sweet, angelic ones bug me the most, lol.

Don't worry about spoiling. As long as you don't tell me who the killer is, you can spoil all you want :D
I'm kinda getting tired of all construction working in her books. Don't they have anything else to do?




Sanctuary was just ok. Not that great. River's End was good but the suspense part was totally unbelievable. Especially the ending. I mean, if you are a movie star, then you'd have security right? Otherwise anybody can come in to the house. So, if you have security (machine or human), then there'd be some trail on who came in. The romance part was good.
Black Hills is the one I like most in her recent releases. It deals with Animal Refuge and that's something I've always been interested in. This was a re-read.
So, reading these 3 back-to-back, my impressions:
1. From all the 5 books (?) I've read, NR seems to have a standard h portion - they're all lanky, lean. None of them seems to be overweight or anything or even any other body weight. To be fair, she doesn't really concentrate on the physical but still it's irritating when all the h are looking the same. I kept think Eve Dallas too.
2. NR seems to like the friends-to-lovers trope with little twist. They'd have known each other right from kids. When they fall in love and they'd realize they loved each other all their life. Except for Carnal Innocence, ALL of them had the same trope. GAH!
I have


I remember disliking Sanctuary when I read it back when it was released. Can't remember why now but I think I was just bored with it. I read River's End but I can't remember a thing about it now. I still haven't read Black Hills.
Hah, you're right about the two formulas you mentioned! I was just thinking the other day about how many romances she has between childhood friends/sweethearts.

I remember liking Black Hills - I'm pretty sure I read that one a while ago. But I really loved The Searcher (sorry my GR has gone wonky this morning.) But very same storyline as you were describing. And I do like her RS but I admit to a weakness for the Bride Quartet that she wrote. Silly books but so much fun!


It's still fun read. Especially reading about all that snow in this heat :D
That's four NR books for me this round.

Well, I may not have done well but it was a lot of fun to see what everyone else read and had to say about their choices and about NR in general!


But I agree - the short challenge was so much fun.

Somehow I always put Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown in same basket. :D I like her romantic suspense novels more than romance. She also has quite backlist.
Maybe Jayne Ann Krentz but I read mostly her Amanda Quick books.

I've only read one Sandra Brown so I can't speak to her books at all.

As Tea and Leslie said, JAK/Amanda Quick comes to mind. So does Karen Robards mainly because she is shelved near NR (ROB) so I've read most of hers too. I've just started Sandra Brown (reading my third now) and SB is more gritty RS than NR, I feel. The characters are more despicable than what NR has written so far.

I'd be up for a readathon of any of these authors: Karen, Jayne or Sandra! What about Linda Howard? I haven't read her yet but she writes romantic suspense, too.

I would love to do Sandra Brown - she interests me more than Karen Robards.
Elizabeth Lowell is another one that's a possibility.
Books mentioned in this topic
Northern Lights (other topics)Black Hills (other topics)
Sanctuary (other topics)
River's End (other topics)
Birthright (other topics)
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Tea, I really like the In Death series, too. I have a few gripes about the series at the moment: Not enough Mavis and not enough humor like she used to put in them. The earlier books were always fun with the Mavis scenes and other little injections of humor that I feel have been lacking in the past 5 or 6 books. I am starting
The only Gallagher book I'm not sure I'll enjoy this time around is the first one.