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High Noon by Nora Roberts
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High Noon by Nora Roberts
Review: Great characterisation as one expects from Nora Roberts - and you are straight in at the deep end with both plot and characterisation - how does she do it - within 10 pages you feel as if you know them and your heart rate increases as theirs does!!
Anyway, Phoebe a police Lieutenant hostage negotiator - highly competent and tough is called to a potential suicide - there she meets Duncan (really great guy - lots of good friends in very useful places - and really rich!!); sparks fly and the romance is on from the start. It does however, a other reviewers have noted take something of a back seat for the majority of the novel. This is a high energy, fast paced book and whilst we find out about Phoebe's past life and her current problems with her mother (agoraphobic); the old savannah plantation house (lives there otherwise her mother will be on the street)and an arrogant, nasty male cop who really has a problem with females having any authority - it left a few loose ends for me.
It was a quick and easy read and that's why I only gave it 4 (3.5 really); entertaining and I can see the similarities drawn by others to her JD Robb series, though I confess I didn't whilst reading it!! For me it just had a little something missing - maybe it would've been better if Duncan hadn't been so wonderful and putting everything right - thereby kind of dismissing other characters.
That said, still enjoyed it and worth the read.
Review: Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara knows how to talk to hostage takers, she's been doing it since she was young when her mothers' boyfriend decided to hold them because her mother, Essie, decided that she had enough of the abuse. Being strong and independent is a family trait.
Phoebe has also had to be strong because her mother is agorophobic, and her husband left her, she's also a woman in a job dominated by men, some of whom are threatened by her competence.
Her St Patrick's day parade is interrupted by Joe Ryder who plans to jump off his building because he's out of a job, his wife has moved out, and soon to be out of a house. This is where she meets Duncan Swift. They're attracted to each other.
But Phoebe's life isn't all roses, someone is playing with her and she has no idea who it is. They're starting to involve the people she cares for and threatening her job.
I thought it was an interesting read, a story of a woman who wouldn't give up, who knew her job was dangerous and hard and didn't flinch from the hard stuff. It kept me wondering who was the villan until the end. It was a book I regretted interuptions for! It falls closer to her J D Robb than some of her usual fare but it's a cracking good read.
Review: I totally agree with the reviewer who says that this story is quite similar in style to JD Robb: I found Phoebe McNamara a very similar character to Eve Dallas although I didn't really find the same comparison between Rourke and Duncan.
Phoebe is a single, working mother who has a 7 year old daughter, Carly, and is a police hostage negotiator. She calms down dramatic situations at work but does not get to relax much once she gets home. She lives in a house in Savannah with her agraphobic mother, daughter and friend Ava. Duncan comes into her life as a result of him witnessing her talk down a potential suicide. He is instantly smitten with her and determined to be with her almost immediately. Phoebe, however feels that she has enough on her plate as things stand with her work and home life the way they are, but does agree to go for a drink with Duncan. The romance side of the story begins to blossom from there.
More and more dramas begin to creep into Phoebe's life beginning with a problem with a fellow police officer who has a problem with taking orders from a woman and concluding with a dramatic hostage situation where the hostage taker is set on revenge against Phoebe personally.
I felt that this story was what I have come to expect form Nora Roberts in that it was not lacking in either twists and turn in the drama or managing to tell a romance story between two of the main characters. I can't wait to see what she comes up with next.
Review: I could not wait to get "High Noon" and read it in one day - was not disappointed. Lt. Phoebe MacNamara is the entirely capable female lead in this story. I fell in love with Duncan Swift much faster than Phoebe and I love how Phoebe's daughter Carly was included in the relationship - made it more realistic. I can't think of a single thing I didn't like about High Noon and highly recommend it.
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