Whiskey Beach

I liked this way more than most things we read for Worst Bestsellers, but not as much as I liked Black Hills.

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-92-whiskey-beach/

I enjoy Nora Roberts female characters. They know when to be tough and know when they can't do something on their own. For Whiskey Beach I liked how this was Eli's story more than Abra's. He was the main character.

What to say that hasn't been said about Nora Roberts's books? This had a little less mystery than others, the male was the main character, the setting, while important, wasn't as vast as others.....Usually you get a better sense of the town the story takes place in, but this story mainly takes place inside Bluff House. I wasn't surprised by the killer and I didn't get too much of a sense of characters other than Abra and Eli.

I was hooked and once I got started a tore through the book, but I wouldn't say this was on par with other Nora Roberts books.

You pretty much know what you are getting with a Nora Roberts single title novel but I must say this one was not my favorite. It was very slow and the heroine was way too Mary Sue perfect. The romantic relationship arc was one straight line up with little tension or spark. I'm not necessarily looking for angst a la Eve Dallas in every Nora book but a little more energy between hero and heroine would have been welcome. I quickly tired of reading about hero's perfect family and would have preferred some pages devoted to a secondary romance subplot instead.