Shelter in Place

Pretty much any time I read a Nora Roberts book, I find myself impressed. The plotting is good, the pacing is good, and it's a charming book. About a mass shooting event and a serial killer. There's a lot of balls to juggle in that concept, and it's handled well.

it is not going to be your typical love story. there are no intense scenes where you can feel the intensity between the couple but rather a book that focuses on the human connection not just between a couple but rather an entire range from friendship, family, and strangers.

it focuses on how the people that have faced the adversity have come together and have grown over the next 10 years as they learn to deal with their trauma and make something out of it. it was in interesting read for me as I often felt I could not read such stories I felt that they would not trill me. I felt that I needed a romance to feel the thrill of a mystery something that could keep me in a book. through this, I realize that where there is a human connection in a book I would be able to read it

quite enjoyable but at the same time quite different from the book written before this. here books such as the witness

Another good page-turner by the amazing Nora Roberts. First, the complaints: I thought the romance was weak and pro-forma, with the characters not even meeting until halfway through the book and a rushed, predictable romantic arc. Also, Roberts overdid Cici's character, making her an annoying, OTT caricature instead of a real person. The hero's jokes to the heroine that he would throw her over for her grandmother if she'd have him are creepy and patronizing IMO.

On the plus side, Roberts portrays differing reactions to, and lifelong recovery from, a traumatic event in a sensitive, respectful manner. While I at first I questioned her decision to let the reader know the identity early on of the individual who is killing survivors of the mall shooting, there was still plenty of suspense regarding who would be the next victim, and how the final showdown would play out. Also there's a wonderful subplot about a formerly abused dog who finds home and healing that will reach even the most hardened heart.

Roberts seems to be moving farther and farther away from her romance novel roots, and I wonder if she will eventually stop shoehorning romance subplots into her suspense, dystopian and other new genre efforts. She might lose some readers but it might make her books even stronger.