Nora Roberts The Search
>> Tuesday, July 6, 2010
I (almost) feel guilty.
When I was offered a copy of Nora Roberts' latest (well - I think it's her latest; that woman is SO prolific, sometimes it's hard to tell) I jumped at the opportunity to read and review it.
I (almost always) enjoy Roberts' work. The J.D. Robbs series are my absolute favourite - but I have enjoyed many, many of her other novels as well. I can't think of any that I didn't, actually - and I have read a great many of them (Vampire series excluded; I don't DO vampires. NOT EVER, even for Nora)
So ... my hardcover copy of The Search arrived a couple of weeks ago. I was in the middle of re-reading Dragonfly in Amber - one of Galbaldon's Outlander series - but hey, I've read them before, so I put that down and switched to The Search.
Made it to about page 117 ...and it was far harder slogging than I expect a Nora Roberts book to be. It is not BAD, per se. Just - so far, anyway - boring. Way, way, WAY too much dog training detail. I get that she's a trainer and he has a bad dog ....but for crying out loud, could we get to the STORY? You know... the one that's on the inside flap about the serial killer ...and the attraction between Fiona and Simon? When does THAT show up? The characteristic tensions that Roberts can do so well just seems to be missing from this one.... or maybe it's just me?
I will finish it... but honestly, only because they gave me the book to review - I will feel guilty if I don't.
So. I will be back with a more complete review of it when I have actually finished the book. But so far, I'm mostly just dying to put it down and get back to Claire and Jamie.
Hmm, sorry to hear it. I'm a Nora Roberts fan, too. Loved Black Hills, but I haven't read any of her books from this year.
not I don't feel too bad about not reading her a lot. Like the J.D. Robb books but haven't seen any in a long time.
I have a friend mad about the Outlander series... and it's too bad when a book doesn't seem to go anywhere. I'm reading a version of the Beauty and the Beast myth, and over half the book came and went before Beauty even met the beast...
One might wonder why so much extraneous detail is used to hold the action back. Unless the dog training comes into play in some crucial way later on.
Thx for the heads up...
I forget the name of the main character in the Robb series, but I do remember that I found this a boring series compared to her other ones. Thanks for the warning on this one.
The last book I read by her was strange. I don't even remember the name of the book but I do remember that the last few pages took a leap as if she was trying to hurry up and finish the book. It had an ending but the ending was so incomplete.
Martha