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Hidden Nature

Nora Roberts

3.9 AVERAGE

thebookishmarie's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

tyches_dice's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

You, random internet review reader, know and I know that I am a Nora Roberts apologist. I have read very close to all of her books and I’ve liked most of them! I’ll defend her against misogynists until I am blue in the face. So it hurts no one more than me to say that this one is a big miss for me.

Firstly, I wish she’d let go of the notion of cops as romantic leads. Regardless of your personal feelings about cops, I think we can all agree that she’s done enough! Enough cops and enough construction and a book with both is overkill. It reads like Roberts phoned it in.

Secondly, the pacing was bad! It didn’t get interesting until like… 65% of the way through the book. It was slower than my grandmother getting out of a beanbag chair.

Finally, for a couple of years there, it felt like Roberts was trying to *say* something with her novels - the one about the devastating impact of gun violence? That stuck with me (it’s called “Shelter in Place” if you are unfamiliar). I don’t know if she got backlash for that, but for the last couple of years her books have been so blandly inoffensive that it is honestly a little tedious to read.

full_kay's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

tibbarasden's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

First off, this is my favorite author, but in the last few years, I really felt like her work isn't as good as it used to be. So, I was glad when I ended up enjoying this overall. Though the editors are not doing their jobs lately either. There have been so many typos, but my husband and I get a good laugh out of some of them. I liked the romance twist of this one with Theo and Drea having the relationship first. I really liked the suspense aspect and how the events at the beginning play into that. It is still slow paced as her recent works have been, but the pov of the antagonists helped keep the story more interesting. The family relationships are on par to what you expect from this author. I was a little worried as we were reaching the last fifteen pages of the book, and the big event hadn't happened, but even though it was rushed and kind of anticlimactic I still liked how things wrapped up, and she will always be a comfort author for me.