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Summary: Sophomoric flapdoodle!
Review: That this idiocy masquerading as a novel could be published is beyond me. This review won't earn me many positive ratings, but in the hopes of saving just one person from suffering through this tripe I'm going to give it to you straight. Can you handle the truth?I was at the airport and had forgotten to bring a book and was forced to purchase something to read. I must have done something terribly wrong to annoy someone in a previous life for me to have chosen this insipid hokum and I must have been terribly bored to finish this garbage, but finish it I did. My time would have been spent far more productively cleaning out the johns on the airplane. Ms Roberts characters are ridiculously contrived and shallow. They appear to have been cooked up in the fetid imagination of a high-school sophomore cheerleader who didn't bother to take any English or literature courses. Ms Roberts has NO insight into the human condition. Her characters are all androgynous hermaphrodites. Her men are simply oozing with sensitivity lurking just beneath the surface. And her female characters are constantly getting into bar fights when they aren't insisting on having sex with the hapless sensitive men in the book. I guess her total lack of insight into human nature could be forgiven if she'd managed to craft a good tale, but Nooo-o-o-o-o. I wasn't so lucky. This storyline was so silly and inane that I am still kicking myself for bothering to read it. Do youself a favor. Pass on this travesty and find something (ANYTHING) else to read.
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Summary: Boring, repetitive, tedious
Review: This is the first book I've read by Nora Roberts and probably the last. I picked up the book because the topics of archeology, Maryland and Robert's popularity were intriguing. After 50 pages, I just speed-read the book to get the plot (mostly about an adoption/kidnapping, which was not what I expected). I found I could skip page upon page and still get the story (which maybe could be witten in 10 or 15 pages). I know Roberts is popular, but this book was like a worn-out, unnecessary, mediocre, lukewarm "romance" with potenitally semi-serious plot (archeology, land disputes, legal-medical issues around adoption) which drown amidst the "need" for romance. Also Roberts tries to sound too "hip" citing rock groups, etc. I felt like this book was really pandering to the readers. So, guess what, I don't recommend it!
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Summary: Fantastic Story*
Review: The things I learned from reading this book is unbelievable. Archeology is so facinating and the underlying love story kept me turning the pages. For a bit I began to lose interest, but it picked back up when dead bodies began turning up. Great read!
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Summary: Not bad, but not realistic.
Review: I won't bore readers with my own synopsis of the book; others have already done much better than I could. However, a best selling author should have her facts checked carefully. I'm sure she can afford good researchers. No aboriginal peoples could have chiseled a cow for archaeologists to find (as they did in this book). They had never seen one. No cows in North America before 1611. Secondly, no university would permit a dig to continue with people dying all over the site. Liability! If you don't mind suspending reality, you may enjoy Birthright. In my humble opinion, Nora Robert's Birthright doesn't hold a candle to any of Beverly Connor's archaeological mystery novels.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I'm not generally a fan of Nora Roberts... but this was A++ hands down! This story made me laugh right out loud.. made me feel emotions from anger to sadness to laughter all within a page or two. Fast paced! I could barely put this book down, right when i thought it was hitting a lull something extraordinary would happen and grab my attention all over again. A perfect combination of suspense and romance. Definitely a 5 star read i would recommend any day of the week.
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Summary: Another great read by Nora Roberts
Review: Birthright begins with the Antietan Creek Project coming to a sudden halt as a backhoe uncovers a skull. Callie Dunbrook was supposed to be taking a sabbatical when the call came in requesting consultation. Not being to thrilled at having her rest interrupted she still makes the appointment. After finding out what has happened she is ready to go.
She soon discovers that this is a true archaeology find, and calls to have a team started on digging carefully through the dirt. The only drawback to having her superiors choose a team is the fact that they send her worst enemy, her Ex-husband Jacob Graystone. Now the dirt will fly, for although she still loves him she cannot trust him because of what she thinks he did.
Graystone, is more than happy to be working with his ex wife. He never wanted to separate to begin with. He just needs time to get Callie to trust him, and working on this dig may just give them time to do that.
Soon it becomes known that not all is as it should be. Between the truth of Callie's childhood and things that are happening at the dig, danger is everywhere and we are wondering while we read if everything is all tied in together.
As I guessed before I started reading, this was another great read by Nora Roberts. She is one of those Authors that you can always depend on to write a spellbinding novel for her fans. This reviewer would recommend BIRTHRIGHT to anyone searching for that perfect book to sit read and enjoy.
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Summary: An ok read
Review: Archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is called to a construction site outside a small town when human bones are excavated. Her ex husband Jake is also contracted to work at the dig where they are certain that the ruins of the site of a pre-historic village will be uncovered.A local builder and several of his employees are disgruntled at the prospect of the dig becoming of historical importance, therebye causing the cessation of a plan to build an estate of affordable housing for the locals.Several murders occurr on the site, threatening to close it down and, as well, Callie is confronted with secrets from her childhood involving a baby kidnapping ring. It's an ok story but I must confess to finding the heroine irritating to say the least and after she'd kicked her ex husband in the ankles repeatedly, thought that she deserved a good slap around the legs herself !
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Summary: What happened to the end
Review: This book was great until it came to the end. After being so suspenseful, the end just disappoints. It is so blah, was Nora Roberts rushed or something? I think the character was very well-developed except the parents.
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Summary: Irritating main character
Review: I found it difficult to like and stay interested in a main character who was rude, immature, self centered, frequently lost her temper like a child and who used foul language indiscriminately. I was also dumbfounded that a person intelligent enough to obtain her doctorate would be stupid enough to go to an isolated constuction site alone and confront a bunch of construction workers, yell at them using foul language and actually physically push one of them. And that was not the only time Callie put herself in mortal danger with very illogical behavior. I was sorry I wasted my time on this one.
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Summary: Ms. Roberts, you have a new fan!
Review: I have seen Nora Roberts's name around the bookstores for years but never picked up one of her novels to read until last week. Well, much better late than never! "Birthright" is such a good story! Romantic suspense at its very best! The novel revolves around a young woman named Callie Dunbrook who was abducted at the age of three weeks from her stroller at the mall. While working as an archaeologist on a dig in a small southern town Callie is recognized by her birth mother while doing an interview on the local TV news. Her mother recognizes her because the resemblance to herself is so very strong. From that point Ms. Roberts weaves a wonderful and completely engrossing tale of a young woman coming to grips with the fact that her life will again never be the same. The interactions between her real family and her adoptive family are especially moving. There is a nice mixture of romance and suspense as Callie , with the help of her ex-husband and co-worker, tries to uncover the facts surrounding her abduction. Just an all-around great read!!
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