Under Currents

4 stars because I read the whole dang thing in one evening + one morning, but the book had its weaknesses. The first 100 pages were horrifying and impossible to put down. I was right there with Zane feeling trapped and abandoned, then so relieved when someone finally believed him about the violence he was experiencing. But then we're 20 years later and it suddenly turns into a Nora Roberts contemporary romance with lots and lots of landscape porn. I would have liked to see more about Zane and his sister's recovery from their trauma, but instead my eyes glazed over as the amazingly perfect Darby described another bed of plants and retaining walls. Then the suspense picked up again with several Big Bads coming after our hero and heroine. It might have been more interesting if one of them had a shade of gray instead of being completely Evil, and it felt unrealistic to me that they didn't figure out the identity of one of the villains but that lapse set up an exciting climax to the story.

Oh well, another summer, another Nora Roberts single title release. You know what you're getting and you know you are going to like it, flaws and all.