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Summary: The same author, two different styles
Review: For the longest time, many readers including myself did not know that Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb were the same the same person. This new book "Remember When" combines these two talents together. The book opens up the stealing of diamonds in 2004 and the love between a P.I. and the suspect daughter's The second takes us to the future where once again the diamonds are up for graps and Roarke and Eve Dallas are on the case.
I have to admitt that I enjoyed the second part of the book with Dallas and Roarke than the first half. The action in the first seem to drag and I couldn't wait to get the second half. This is a great book, but the first section did seem a bit slow.
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Summary: Pleasing
Review: I find it amazing that so many people don't like the second part of the book. Please don't judge the second part as "boring". If you were a J.D. Robb Fan, you would understand the characters better. Eve and Roarke have been around for about 17 books so this book just continues their story. Please don't judge the characters until you get to know them in other stories.
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Summary: Pleasing
Review: I find it amazing that so many people don't like the second part of the book. Please don't judge the second part as "boring". If you were a J.D. Robb Fan, you would understand the characters better. Eve and Roarke have been around for about 17 books so this book just continues their story. Please don't judge the characters until you get to know them in other stories.
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Summary: My last Robb/Roberts read . . .
Review: I give the first part of the story a 4 and a zero to the second - in fact, I didn't even finish the book - I simply didn't care what happened to them or the treasure. I enjoyed the first two characters -- Eve and Roarke bore me to tears - or at least, Eve does. I don't like female characters who flaunt the fact that they have bigger (you know whats) than the men in her world -- she's turning Roarke into a whimp! I've read 75% of Robert's books, but I think I'm through with Roberts/Robb - she's done her story formula to death.
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Summary: Remember When
Review: I just finished Remember When, I have never read a Nora Roberts book before but I sure am glad I have now. I was camping and I always bring books to pass the time. I was so intrigued that I had to read the last few chapters of the book by propane lamp and moths swirling around my head not that I am complaining I just couldn't wait to finish the book waiting until morning was out of the question. I can hardly wait to read many many more Nora Roberts/ J. D. Robb books. I just wish I had discovered Nora Roberts before now, but better late than never.
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Summary: Longest prologue for an Eve Dallas mystery but...
Review: I think that this book was great for introducing Nora Roberts' fans to J.D. Robb. I only recently started reading Roberts but I've read all of her newer romance/mistery books and really liked them. I was a little wary of trying Robb and "Remember When" was a great crash course into the series. The problem with introducing non-Robb fans to the series this way is that they loose so much of the history of the characters and are a little lost at first with the unfamiliar slang for things that we don't have yet. The second half was so good though, and so different from the normal Roberts stuff that it made me want to read the series, which I immediately did. I definately thought that the Robb part was better than the Roberts part. That is probably because I'd burned myself out on Roberts and the plot was a little simple, but I think that was because both stories were shorter than her normal lengths and there wasn't enough area to develop the best plots. I really love Roberts, but I love Robb more and if you have read this book and didn't like Eve or didn't like the characters it is probably because you haven't read more of the series and haven't had time to fall in love with her enough. Eve is a great character, but if you come into the middle of the series, you loose how much heart she has (and she has a lot of heart).
Read Robb's other books before you give up on it all together.
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Summary: Very good romance/mystery
Review: I've been reading Nora Roberts for nearly as long as she's been writing, and have enjoyed seeing her talent grow as a writer. Here, she combines both her personas/aliases into one book. Part one is more standard romantic suspense; Part Two is the futuristic detective mystery featuring Eve Dallas. The entire story centers around a diamond heist, and the stones that were stolen. I found myself reading more for the mystery element and found the occasional bits of steamy hot sex to be mildly distracting. If you're familiar with Ms. Roberts work under either her own name or her pseudonym of J.D. Robb, you'll probably be satisfied with this book. If you've never read her before, this isn't one I'd necessarily recommend as a "starter" - Part Two relies heavily, I think, on prior knowledge of Eve Dallas and her world, and so some characters aren't as fully fleshed out in Part Two as they are in Part One.While the mystery/suspense portions are fairly simple (I figured out who was the Big Bad fairly early in the book), the writing remains Ms. Roberts's typical style - that is, her characters act and talk like real people; she's not afraid to use pop culture to flesh out her world; the sex isn't written in such purple prose that you laugh out loud at the descriptions, nor is it so descriptively pornographic that you're offended [though this is definitely a PG-15 book with the descriptions of blood, violence, and sex]; and overall, it's a fairly enjoyable reading. What I didn't like, and what keeps this from being a 5 star review, is the sheer length of the story. Some of the scenes dragged on too long, some of the descriptions for the characters were unnecessary (Peabody seemed to take more center stage than she should have, which I would find distracting if I didn't understand there's a story arc with her through the other Eve Dallas stories), and the Bad Guys were cardboard villians. Additionally, the ending felt flat, too Hollywood, and I didn't feel like anyone tried too hard to get anything. Nora Roberts did a much better job with thieves, IMO, in one of her older books, and writing as J.D. Robb, I think she did Eve Dallas better when Eve Dallas was newer.
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Summary: Not Worth Buying
Review: Loved the first half; good characters, people you got interested in ana cared about....but TOO MUCH SEX!! Second half...well, mostly boring; just kept reading to see how it would turn out. znone of the characters were especially well developed or appealing. And, had to skip over the sex parts. I like Nora Roberts; this the first I have read by her alter ego and doubt if I will read any more.
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Summary: This was Like 2 Books in One, Not One Book
Review: The book is divided into two distinct parts - the first is the Nora Robert romance part and the second part is the J.D. Robb portion . My expectation was completely different from what the book actually offered. I `thought' that the book would seamlessly blend the Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb elements within the same story and not separate them so distinctly. Basically, this is like 2 books bound together as one - they are really individual of one another and connect with a very thin string. It would have been much more interesting, and more complicated (obviously something Roberts is not capable of) to actually write a story that blended instead of keeping each part so distinct. The second part was boring and unnecessary - the first part was a nice romance, even though the characters did rush it quite a bit!
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Summary: excellent story - mystery & love
Review: This book consists of two novels - the first one is the story of Laine Tavish and Max Gannon on the trail of stolen diamonds. This was excellent - the Nora Roberts we've all come to expect - mystery, romance, and a good, well written, well plotted story. I truly enjoyed this portion of the audio book. It is followed up by the second novel which features Eve Dallas working to solve a mystery case, involving the same diamonds and the grandchild of Laine & Max 56 years in the future. It's completely different in style - written as J.D. Robb it follows her formula in her "In Death" mystery series. This was a highly enjoyable set of stories (especially the 1st of the two stories) and I highly recommend them to any Nora Roberts fan - you won't be disappointed.
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