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Summary: A great story of Love Lost & Love Found ...
Review: I am constantly amazed and overwhelmed by the talent of Nora Roberts/JD Robb. I cannot imagine how she continues to create such great stories over and over...while keeping them imaginative, expressive, and captivating. She's done it again with Midnight Bayou -- Truly I believe this is one of her best stories. The romance revolves around two couples -- Declan and Lena, in year 2000 while a dark foreboding love story revolves around Lucian Manet and Abigail Rouse, from 1899. Declan leaves Boston after calling off a wedding in Boston (his) and moves to New Orleans to claim an old bayou mansion from ruin. Declan leaves his legal practice, sells most of his personal belongings and leaves his family behind in search of something that will make him whole. Declan had been to New Orleans years ago with his college buddy Remy Payne. Declan found the old Manet Hall; a house that he fixated on, for 12 years. Declan was "compelled" to move to the bayou in search of his dreams. He meets Lena in the bayou, while she's walking her grandma's dog... and their fickle romance begins. While Declan is in the midst of his home restoration project, he encounters ghosts, cold spots, visions, voices, etc... The ghosts are the Manet family members from 1899. Because of their own torment and unhappy lives, the ghosts now keep everyone away from Manet Hall. With his determination to solve the mystery, make things right with the past and present, Declan stays with the house and its ghosts, to unravel the mystery. This story reminds me so much of Nora's Silhouette series of the MacKade brothers in Antietam Maryland, their farm and the civil war ghosts that still haunted the premises. It's a wonderful story; very humorous (especially Dec and Remy's bachelor party escapades). I laughed out loud several times while reading this book. Its not often that I find a book well written and expressive enough to make me giggle & laugh out loud. The visual images I had of Remy and Declan are great!! This is a KEEPER --- thanks Ms. Roberts. Please keep writing great stories like this!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Midnight Bayou
Review: This is the greats book.It grabs it at front and just hold you all the way though.
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Summary: three of my favorite things
Review: Books that feature ghosts, the Old South, and old houses as a character are three of my favorite things topics. Roberts put all three in this new novel. Good point: Interesting twists on the ghosts....I kept saying no, no...but it was true. Bad point: Not enough about the ghosts and their lives in the early 1900s. Still, a quick and fun read; you won't need to keep the lights on for this one.
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Summary: Hauntingly romantic tale
Review: Nora Roberts never fails to deliver a great book! Midnight Bayou is as haunting as it is romantic. Set in the mysterious beauty of the Lousiana bayou, lives are inter-woven by love, heart break, time and the ghosts of Manet hall. A wonderful, page turning delight!
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Summary: Good, but not outstanding
Review: I've been reading Nora for years now, and I always like her books, this one is no exception. I liked it a lot and I would recommend it, it just wasn't great. However, it just seemed like she wasn't fully engaged while she was writing this one. I could fully connect with Declan, but I had a hard time feeling like I really knew Lena. I found myslef drawn more to Remy and his fiance than to Lena. Also, the thing with Lena's key was just lame. Overall, a good read, fast paced and interesting.
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Summary: Better than her last book
Review: Midnight Bayou is a better book than The Villa. The characters are more believable and easier to empathize with. Even the minor characters are great -- I'd like to see a story about Remy and Effie. But as Nora Roberts did in The Villa, she cheats at the ending. Throughout the book, she has indicated the presence of malevolent ghosts, even to the point of having a minor character assume the features of the evil mother-in-law ghost. But the mother-in-law ghost and the murderer are never resolved -- the resolution of the two main characters' ghosts had to suffice.
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Summary: Great for Halloween!
Review: I picked this up because it was based in New Orleans, had a old mansion, Cajun atmosphere. It was different. I hope future Nora books do not delve again and again into the paranormal. Solution was vague. The two stories were ok and it was a good enough book to read at Halloween time. Finished it while waiting for the trick or treaters to end their prowls.
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Summary: Great Read!!!
Review: This book kept me up turning pages all night! I hated to see it end!!! Set in New Orleans with all the spectacular sights of the French Quarter, to spicey characters, real and otherwise!!! A truly fast paced read with a good plot!!!
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Summary: Two's company, three's a crowd!
Review: Here's another Robert's wonder...couldn't put it down. Declan is a Boston lawyer who falls in love with a run down New Orleans Mansion, buys it and vows to return it to it's original beauty. He has great building talent and goes right to work, His Law School buddy, Remy, lives in New Orleans and introduces Dec to Lena, a gorgeous cajun who runs a trendy Bar and puts out untouchable vibes. Declan vows he can handle her, but, when trouble starts on the third floor at his new house and clocks chime and doors slam and he finds himself in a 100 year old mystery he wonders if he will live to love her. The story builds and builds to a marvelous climax with typical Nora Robert's ingenuity. Read it, you'll love it!
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Summary: What's happened to my favorite author?
Review: For years now, long before she was famous, Nora Roberts has been my favorite author. I read all her books and never has a reprint been a new story for me. I also read J.D. Robb and enjoy that series. I am very unhappy and disappointed with the direction she is now taking. In a very recent book, she wrote of magic, and as a Christian, I found it offensive. In Midnight Bayou, she has turned to reincarnation and the occult, which for those who study the Bible is offensive again. What's with this? I have always purchased Nora Roberts' books, sight unseen as soon as they are released. I won't be doing that anymore. It appears that I must check her books out now before purchasing them to determine content. I fear this has happened because she has made it big and is just spitting them out as fast as possible. Come on Nora, be true to yourself, and your loyal fans. This rating of 1 is a gift; I would have given it a zero.
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