449 reviews for:

Hidden Nature

Nora Roberts

3.89 AVERAGE

delaney_evergreen's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lacewing's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous medium-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: No

vickieb8's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bcdc75's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

suzyq98's review against another edition

3.5

slow-paced

rngrooms's review against another edition

4.5

emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

stephanie_happylibrarian's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

magiasson's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

sandyfh's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

kyanissbooked's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I wanted to love this book more than I did. I will say, right off, I've been seeing many people say this remind them of her JD Robb Pen name. As someone who has read up to book 60, including all the novella's, I respectfully disagree. The In Death series is not comparable to this one standalone. 

I struggled with this book because of the slow pacing. Most of Nora's books are intricate and really go into the nuances of the topic you are reading about. But for this one, all we did was focus on Sloan and her recovery, her new job and then eventually the crime. Just not in a way that I found as interesting as I wanted to. The actual romance in this book took forever to get started and I was wondering if there was even going to be one at a certain point. Maybe coming off my last Nora read (Come Sundown) made it hard to love this as much as I wanted to? I'm not sure.