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Summary: Seemed like a formula book...
Review: I never felt the draw/chemistry between the two main characters. They were the weak part of the book for me. I liked the past/present/future divisions in the book. The minor characters were more interesting than the main characters.
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Summary: Nora Roberts did not write this
Review: This was the most awful Nora Robert's book ever! Very boring. The characters unlikeable. I didn't even finish it.
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Summary: Annoying characters, doomed relationships, watered down plot
Review: This is the first Nora Roberts book I've read and it will be the last. I found 'The Reef' to be a frustrating exercise in fiction.Though the setting is wonderful, the plot is meagre featuring a cookie-cutter villain, and a predictable ending. The characters themselves have such low self-esteem, that it takes the whole book for them to start to be truthful to each other and themselves about their feelings. It seems the heroine, Tate Beaumont, spend more time thinking what Matthew will think of what she is about to say next than anything else. I started to think they deserved each other, and I suppose that this is what drives Romance novels forward. But do the characters have to be so pathetically annoying while struggling toward the inevitable conclusion (with a few steamy sex pitstops on the way)? The author changes the point of view like she was flicking the channels on a TV remote, sometimes going from one character, to another, then to a third for as little as a few paragraphs. It's amateurish and lazy. Where are the good editors out there? Finally, I think Ms. Roberts didn't research diving very well or, if she did dip a toe in the water, didn't visualize well enough after the fact. The book is peppered with laughable phrases like "Tate found herself facemask to facemask with a recklessly grinning face...". She mentions something about swimming through the bubbles that fish leave behind. Huh??? And hearts do all kinds of gymnastics in this tome, including skidding. Be still my skidding heart! How about this one in a sex scene: "When her sea began to toss..." It's writing like that that made *me* want to toss the book aside.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I buy all of Nora Roberts books since I first read, "Honest Illusions", which I loved. I thought, "The Reef", was so bad I gave up after about 60 pages. The book was boring.
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Summary: A great read.
Review: This was my first Nora Roberts book. I picked it up in the airport on vacation, hoping for complete escapism, and The Reef delivers. The plot is well paced, there is a great twist at the end, and the diving events are nicely depicted. But above all, the exchanges between lead characters Tate and Matthew are what keep you from putting the book down. Roberts shamelessly keeps the reader completely wrapped around the evolution of their relationship. I'm thinking Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey if they ever make it into a movie! The Buck & Marla characters do wreak some havoc with your suspension of disbelief, but overall compliment the story. Can't wait to pick up another Roberts book.
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Summary: Terribly disappointed
Review: I'm a Nora Roberts fan and have been waiting eagerly for The Reef to be published. I read and re-read her books all the time. However, I must say that I was terribly disappointed with this piece of work. I could barely get through the 2nd chapter. What I love about Nora Roberts's books is the witty conversations between the characters as well as the in-depth build-up of the characters which makes you identify with them. All these were lacking in The Reef. The Templeton series was, in my view, her best. The Macgregor series was pretty good too. I really hope that the next book would be a good read.
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Summary: a love story with adventure and thrills
Review: starts slowly, then moves forward at a rapid pace
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Summary: A Definite Page Turner
Review: This is another of her fabulous suspense novels. No, you aren't kept guessing, but interesting things that you don't necessarily suspect are going to happen do keep happening. The characters were very real and very likable. You find yourself rooting for each of them - except the bad guy. Does have a small surprise at the end.
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Summary: Pretty Good- Vivid Imagery and Meticulous Detail
Review: As an anthropologist, I can say that I felt that the detail with regard to the evcavations in this book is detailed enough to be interesting, but not tedious. It has a good story and well developed characters. It was my fist Nora Roberts book, I am hooked! All in all, a good read!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: What can I say about this book! Once I started it I couldn't put it down! The characters were so real to me! I read the book over Labor Day, and I didn't do much else becasue I couldn't put it down! It is one of my favorite Nora Roberts's books to date! I think any woman would love this book just becasue of the fact that the hero "Matt" was written so well! He's perfect, aren't we all looking for perfect! Anyway, I loved this book, and I'd recomend it to all my friends!
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