High Noon
by Nora Roberts
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Author: Nora RobertsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN: 0515144681
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Jove
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Book Review: 'High Noon' took up too much time!
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm relatively unfamiliar with Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb's work, having only read one Eve Dallas short story, and nothing written under the author's real name, prior to this book.
I thought the premise and backstory of the characters were both good, but after a while, the pacing was a bit of a problem. The 'police procedural' aspects were fine, but the romantic subplot just didn't deliver as much as it promised. I thought the action really dragged from around chapter 15 until close to the end of the story, and many of the scenes involving Phoebe and Duncan seemed repetitive. Even the conclusion lacked a satisfying resolution for some of the plot threads. Duncan's personality quirks grated on me after a while, and his rather convoluted family background added little, if anything to the story, and could have been largely, if not entirely, left out.
Roberts just seemed to pull the story's 'real' villain out of a hat in the latter chapters, after forcing us to read through a rather pointless section in which she reviews a few of her older cases(all red herrings) before finally 'discovering' who's behind it all. I prefer the villains in mystery/crime stories to have been introduced earlier, rather than have a 'surprise' character thrown in like this. Even the tie-in with the film 'High Noon' was rather forced, particularly Phoebe's attempt to equate each character in the movie with the protagonists in the story.
With all of the 'twists and turns', much of the character-driven storylines weren't wrapped up properly. It seemed like the only thing that really made Phoebe realize that Duncan was 'the one' for her, was the fact that the author was running out of pages.
It's disappointing when a book that runs for nearly 500 pages still feels 'rushed' and not completely finished.
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The New York Times BestsellerThe phenomenal number-one New York Times bestselling author is back with a spine-tingling novel about a woman who walks fearlessly into danger-but must draw on her courage to let love into her life.
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