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I enjoyed this simply because it’s Nora Roberts and it involves a heist or two. It’s a book that doesn’t age well. The main character, Adrianne, grows up the child of a Middle-Eastern king and his American actress wife in a fictional, very religiously-strict Middle Eastern country. The attitudes put forward about Islam are very outdated and over-the-top. But Adrianne is an interesting character. She
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No matter what’s happening in our world, in Stephanie Plum’s neighborhood in Trenton, very little changes. Stephanie is still chasing bad guys for a living, helped along by Lula and getting her butt saved by Ranger when she get in a little too deep. Joe is also still in the picture, and still Stephanie’s number 1 — though she’s not sure either of them are
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I had a really hard time with this one. Basically, Zack Walker is a jerk. He’s one of those guys who doesn’t know when to stop, and his favorite thing to do is to try to teach his family a “lesson” when they are doing something he doesn’t approve of (like leaving their backpack on the stairs, or their keys in the door). And when
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This was my first experience with Goddard. The story’s premise is interesting — Stephen Swan unexpectedly finds out that the uncle he thought was dead, Eldritch, has instead been in an Irish prison for the last 40 years. Except no one, including Eldritch, will tell him why. Consumed by his curiosity and concerned for his mother’s safety, Stephen takes it upon himself to keep tabs
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