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nichole2000 's review for:
Northern Lights
by Nora Roberts
This was an okay book; a classic whodunnit set in a small town in Alaska. It was pretty basic, nothing spectacular about it, but entertaining enough.
The problem was that I completely misunderstood the book. About 1/4 of the way through, I thought it told the reader who the killer was. I was under the impression the whole time that I already knew who it was (not because I had figured it out, but because it had been explicitly written) and that we were just waiting for the main character to figure it out. Then I got to the end and it wasn't that person, and I was so confused and I flipped back to the scene in the book where I thought it had told us who the killer was, and realized that it hadn't and I had somehow inferred it. So I read the whole book not trying to figure out who the killer was because I thought I already knew, which I think probably made the end less satisfying. My mistake.
The problem was that I completely misunderstood the book. About 1/4 of the way through, I thought it told the reader who the killer was. I was under the impression the whole time that I already knew who it was (not because I had figured it out, but because it had been explicitly written) and that we were just waiting for the main character to figure it out. Then I got to the end and it wasn't that person, and I was so confused and I flipped back to the scene in the book where I thought it had told us who the killer was, and realized that it hadn't and I had somehow inferred it. So I read the whole book not trying to figure out who the killer was because I thought I already knew, which I think probably made the end less satisfying. My mistake.