There was barely a struggle and pretty much no tension. On the romance side, the two characters met and fell in love. (And, as these are romantic suspense books, there’s not a heck of a lot left.) Oh there were still lots of positives, all the things Nora Roberts does well was on full display in this book.īut, I felt like both the romance and mystery/suspense fell flat.
And when I read a book like The Obsession from an author who has written over 200 (!) books, I feel like I’m pointing to Exhibit A.įor me, at least, The Obsession was a disappointment. That said, I also wonder if writers only have so many books inside of them, and once they’re written, that’s it. There’s so much Nora Roberts does right that as an author I want to learn from her: the way she starts her stories so they grip you by the throat and don’t let go, her character development, her descriptions, the sheer beauty of her writing.
In my teens and twenties, I was a devout Nora Roberts’ reader, and over the years I continue to circle back to her. But the sins of her father can become an obsession, and, as she’s learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away. Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up-especially the determined Xander Keaton. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known.
No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods.
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