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cyanide_latte 's review for:
Dark Witch
by Nora Roberts
Eh, you're not going to get anything super intelligent right now. I feel like this book sapped my desire to really get critical.
I enjoyed it, and I can probably say I think I enjoyed this one novel more than I did Roberts's entire "Key" trilogy combined. It's not a bad read for what it is, and I absolutely enjoyed the characters and their large web of relationships. The romantic couples are fairly easy to predict this early on, the way they were in the "Key" trilogy, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does feel like there's a certain lack of true excitement or anything to entice the reader to really believe in the couples. The Insta-Love and Insta-Lust is heavy here; standard for Roberts, to my understanding, but it still makes it just a tad hard to believe. Gotta stretch that Suspension Of Disbelief a bit.
Additionally, I can easily say I don't like Roberts's use of the term g*psy in this novel. I get why she used it, I do, but considering when she published this, I would hope she'd have figured out by now that that's a slur. But what do I know. Another thing I'm rather fed up with is the fact every female character I think I've ever read in her books always seems to end up obsessed with wanting to get married, get pregnant, and have lots of babies and be a content little housewife. I'm not here to slam on that; that's a very real dream for a lot of women out there, and I hope that they can have that become real if that's what will make them happen. But good lord, Nora Roberts, would it kill you to write a little more variety into your female leads other than physical appearance and levels of outgoing personalities and sass? Because I'm starting to think it would.
I enjoyed it, and I can probably say I think I enjoyed this one novel more than I did Roberts's entire "Key" trilogy combined. It's not a bad read for what it is, and I absolutely enjoyed the characters and their large web of relationships. The romantic couples are fairly easy to predict this early on, the way they were in the "Key" trilogy, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does feel like there's a certain lack of true excitement or anything to entice the reader to really believe in the couples. The Insta-Love and Insta-Lust is heavy here; standard for Roberts, to my understanding, but it still makes it just a tad hard to believe. Gotta stretch that Suspension Of Disbelief a bit.
Additionally, I can easily say I don't like Roberts's use of the term g*psy in this novel. I get why she used it, I do, but considering when she published this, I would hope she'd have figured out by now that that's a slur. But what do I know. Another thing I'm rather fed up with is the fact every female character I think I've ever read in her books always seems to end up obsessed with wanting to get married, get pregnant, and have lots of babies and be a content little housewife. I'm not here to slam on that; that's a very real dream for a lot of women out there, and I hope that they can have that become real if that's what will make them happen. But good lord, Nora Roberts, would it kill you to write a little more variety into your female leads other than physical appearance and levels of outgoing personalities and sass? Because I'm starting to think it would.