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If only I had made a list of the 1001 careers the prolific author has carved out in her 1001 published books, maybe I would become a career guidance counsellor by myself. Not a joke guys seriously, Nora Roberts surely has a good collection out there. Well, most of us know how good she is in what she does best and Legacy is no doubt different. All the staple ingredients for an NR novel are in place, a feel good family story with defined characters so wonderfully written that it was easy to wish myself back in a charming place like Traveler’s Creek. The romance unlike her usual works only comes about in the 3rd section of the book which was surprising and gave me a feeling that maybe a little more build up could have helped. But again, Raylan is a widower with 2 kids and the author does take her time to put all her cards into one stack.
Loved how the author showed Adrian as this very sorted and ambitious doer right from the start at most times coming across as a pusher for good health thru yoga and nutritious food. There were places where she comes across as too pushy but I think NR fairly managed it without it becoming too obnoxious kinda health freak. The suspense in the story again was surprisingly milder compared to what she usually crafts coz more than half of the story is about Adrian and the establishing links, first her DVDs, then her shifting location from New York to home, her relationship with her friends and her mother and the way all her friends and family forms a protective circle of comfort with all its sugary sweetness.
Nora Roberts like always had me wiping my eyes at the shootout scenes in the school, and I am in awe of her writing skill that subtly conveys the harrowing emotional roller coaster taking place in that few minutes of shoot out. It is not in your face with descriptive language talking about it over and over again but the enormity of the tragedy does get conveyed wonderfully.
Book Blurb
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents Legacy, a new novel of a mother and a daughter, of ambition and romance, and of a traumatic past reawakened by a terrifying threat…
Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her—before her mother, Lina, stepped in.
Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents’ house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend—and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend’s ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand and turning it into a billion-dollar business. There was no point in dwelling on the past.
A decade later, Adrian has created her own line of yoga and workout videos, following in Lina’s footsteps but intent on maintaining creative control. And she’s just as cool-headed and ambitious as her mother. They aren’t close, but they’re cordial—as long as neither crosses the other.
But while Lina dismisses the death threats that Adrian starts getting as a routine part of her daughter’s growing celebrity, Adrian can’t help but find the vicious rhymes unsettling. Year after year, they keep arriving—the postmarks changing, but the menacing tone the same. They continue after she returns to Maryland and becomes reacquainted with Raylan, her childhood crush, all grown up and as gorgeously green-eyed as ever. Sometimes it even seems like the terrifying messages are indeed routine, like nothing will come of them. Until the murders start, and the escalation begins…
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