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Summary: Excellent suspense
Review: Nora Roberts' Brazen Virtue features Carolyn McCormick's extensive theater background which adds high drama and mystery to this story of Grace, who finds her sister living in a grungy neighborhood. When she discovers her sister is supplementing her teacher's income by acting as an at-home sex operator, she is worried - when her sister dies, she is frantic. Excellent suspense.
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Summary: Entertaining enough, but...
Review: This book is entertaining, with likable characters, but I thought Nora could have worked a lot more suspense in it, like she did wonderfully in many other novels.
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Summary: Entertaining enough, but...
Review: This is a follow up to Sacred Sins but it stands alone! A very entertaining and suspenseful read.Here you meet Grace, a murder suspense fiction writer who after a long and tiring book tour comes to DC to spend some down time with her sister Kathleen. Her and her sister have never really gotten along and Grace hopes that her straight-edge sister and her can find a common ground. Kathleen has just divorce and lost custody of her son and is trying to make enough money to hire a lawyer to get him back. So full-time teacher, she starts working evenings as a phone sex operator. Grace is more than a bit concern but Kathleen promises that it is completely safe! Ed Jackson just bought the house and lives next door....He is fixing the place inside and out to make it truly a home. He is also a detective. Grace and Ed hit it off but one night after coming back from a date, Grace finds Kathleen in her office murdered. Grace is determined to avenge her sister's death. She believes that the key to the puzzle after a few more women are attacked, is the phone sex business and signs herself up as bait. She know that with her voice being very close to Kathleens, that she can help bring the murderer to justise! Together, they will unlock the secrets and find a home within each other. A fun, thrilling, quick read. I highly recommend this one!
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: This is a follow up to Sacred Sins but it stands alone! A very entertaining and suspenseful read. Here you meet Grace, a murder suspense fiction writer who after a long and tiring book tour comes to DC to spend some down time with her sister Kathleen. Her and her sister have never really gotten along and Grace hopes that her straight-edge sister and her can find a common ground. Kathleen has just divorce and lost custody of her son and is trying to make enough money to hire a lawyer to get him back. So full-time teacher, she starts working evenings as a phone sex operator. Grace is more than a bit concern but Kathleen promises that it is completely safe! Ed Jackson just bought the house and lives next door....He is fixing the place inside and out to make it truly a home. He is also a detective. Grace and Ed hit it off but one night after coming back from a date, Grace finds Kathleen in her office murdered. Grace is determined to avenge her sister's death. She believes that the key to the puzzle after a few more women are attacked, is the phone sex business and signs herself up as bait. She know that with her voice being very close to Kathleens, that she can help bring the murderer to justise! Together, they will unlock the secrets and find a home within each other. A fun, thrilling, quick read. I highly recommend this one!
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Summary: Very Neato!
Review: This is the first Nora Roberts book I have ever read. I first picked this one out because I thought it was very interesting looking. I believe that it is. The story just tells itself in a way it is just a really good read. In this book you really feel for all the characters and she writes it so real. When you got a peek at the killer it was very scary and she just gives the reader alot of perspectives with I think is cool. So I really this you should go and read this book.:)
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Summary: Great companion to Sacred Sins
Review: What a great little novel. Somewhat shorter than some of her other works, but just as good! One MUST read Sacred Sins before reading Brazen Virtue. I love the characters Ed and Grace, Ben and Tess. They are believable and are leaving me wanting more. Nora, PLEASE give Ben and Ed some new cases to work on!!!!
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Summary: MY FAVORITE AUTHOR
Review: WHEN I FIRST PICKED UP THIS BOOK, I FELT THE CHARACTERS OF ED & BEN WERE FAMILIAR. IT TOOK ME A MOMENT TO REALIZE THAT THIS BOOK IS A "PARTNER" TO SACRED SINS. (BEN & TESS' STORY) IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT, YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF WONDERING WHY YOU FEEL A LITTLE LOST. READ SACRED SINS, IT'S GREAT. AS FOR THIS BOOK, I REALLY ENJOYED ED. HE CRACKED ME UP WITH HIS EATING HABITS & HIS LITTLE QUIPS THAT NEEDLE BEN.THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 2 COPS IS A GREAT BALANCE. I DID FIND IT HARD TO FEEL PITY FOR KATHLEEN, THE VICTIM & GRACE'S SISTER. I FOUND MYSELF FEELING MORE SORRY FOR GRACE.(SHE'S THE HAPPY GO LUCKY TYPE) THE PLOT WAS GOOD, AND THE "BAD GUY" WAS A BIT OF A SUPRISE. (HIS AGE)THE ATTRACTION BETWEEN GRACE & ED IS IMMEDIATE, PLUS THEY HAVE A LOT IN COMMON.I DID GET A KICK OUT OF THE WAY GRACIE WENT ABOUT TRAPPING THE KILLER. IT DROVE ED NUTS, + IT MADE ED JEALOUS THAT SHE WAS DOING PHONE SEX. ALSO,THE WAY THE KILLER WAS ABLE TO USE A COMPUTER WAS VERY INGENIOUS. READ IT-AS USUAL NORA PENS A GREAT BOOK. I READ IT COVER TO COVER AS I ALWAYS DO HER BOOKS IN A COUPLE OF HOURS. IT'S AN ENJOYABLE READ.
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Summary: This virtue truly is brazen!
Review: When it comes to Nora Roberts', I've most enjoyed the stories in which she has included a lot in the way of scenic description. Unlike her Irish stories, or the Three Sisters Island trilogy, this particular story is quite straightforward and lacking in descriptive narrative. However, the suspense is nicely built, and the ending avoids the trappings of those nice and neat, everything figured out in a nutshell, kind of things. It is quite obvious that the story takes place in the 80's (she dates the clothing and music in an extremely overt fashion), and her storytelling ability was not as tight and as interesting as in some of her newer novels. Readers who aren't familiar with Roberts may want to begin with one of the newer books, such as "The Three Fates" (a more intelligent read).
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Summary: Entertaining Romantic Mystery
Review: When it comes to Nora Roberts', I've most enjoyed the stories in which she has included a lot in the way of scenic description. Unlike her Irish stories, or the Three Sisters Island trilogy, this particular story is quite straightforward and lacking in descriptive narrative. However, the suspense is nicely built, and the ending avoids the trappings of those nice and neat, everything figured out in a nutshell, kind of things. It is quite obvious that the story takes place in the 80's (she dates the clothing and music in an extremely overt fashion), and her storytelling ability was not as tight and as interesting as in some of her newer novels. Readers who aren't familiar with Roberts may want to begin with one of the newer books, such as "The Three Fates" (a more intelligent read).
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Summary: a good one to fill an otherwise dull day
Review: while getting into the story, the plot, the characters, i couldnt help but feel as though nora roberts rushed thru this one. while i love a short book, and this one is a good one at that, i felt the delevopment of the people themselves couldve been elaborated on...a little more into the marriage of kath and her husband...where was the reaction of her son? ben feared tess working on this type of case because of something that had happened to her a few months back, but it never really went into that....these are things i wouldve enjoyed knowing, but nevertheless, this was a good read ::smile
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