Hideaway

Not the usual Nora Roberts “beach read” I was expecting, but instead a very compelling suspense novel

Very much more family drama with some intrigue and romance thrown in there. Not my favorite from Queen Nora but she is still in a league of her own.

Meh. Kind of boring, and I skimmed large parts of it. The heroine and her family were sickeningly perfect, the hero was flawless, and the villains were eeeeevil. There could have been more done with the fact that the heroine's perfect father married a woman who turned out to be a cold-hearted bitch, but he disappeared for long portions of the story and never got a chance to deal with his guilt and loss on page. There was one secondary character with some nuance and depth but he was only a small part of the story. I did enjoy the glimpses into the heroine's eventual career path, and the trauma that sets off the novel is appropriately terrifying. Nora is a good storyteller as always, but this one won't stick with me for long.