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Title: Birthright by Nora Roberts ISBN: 0-515-13711-1 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.01 (77 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Total Pageturner
Comment: Nora Roberts at her best: Birthright had all the usual ingredients of a great read with strong women, handsome men who just don't get it the first time, a mystery to solve and then a marvelous ending.
Callie Dunbrook, aka, Jessica Cullen, as the story unfolds is a successful archelogist on her way to a dig in Woodsboro, Md. At the first media presentation a woman in the area sees Callie on TV and recognizes physical characteristics that lead her to believe that Callie is her daughter Jessica.
Jessica was kidnapped when she was three years old as her brother Douglas waited to see Santa. The tragedy tore apart Suzanne Cullen's life, her family and her relationship with her son Doug who had been 3 years old at the time of the kidnapping.
Solving the mystery of who Callie/Jessica's parents really are, and how it all came to be makes for a story with escalating suspense. Nora Roberts has so many successful stories under belt that it's hard to say which one is best; Birthright is probably very near the top of the list.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not up to her usual standard.
Comment: I must admit to having being spoilt by Ms.Roberts excellent recent books - Three Fates and Chesapeake Blue to name two. Here I feel that the standard has dropped somewhat - that's not to say it was'nt readable - it just was'nt great and that is what I've come to expect from this consistently talented author.
The book had too many plotlines going on all at once for me - there was Callie the archeologist on an exciting dig, meeting up with ex-hubby Jake on the site, finding out she was adopted, dealing with her adoptive parents who had never told her this news, meeting her birth mother and her brother, brothers susequent relationship with the lawyer Callie hires to find out her past - she was stolen and sold as a black market baby - and then the murders start.......... I'm exhausted just trying to remember it all.
As a result of all this, the characters personalities were under-developed and it was harder to get "into" the storyline, the supporting players who normally provide good back-drop and suspects for all the murder and mayhem barely left an impression and so when the "final curtain" came it was all a bit anti-climatic....
Having said all that, it did hold the interest to the end and if it were a first novel by anyone else it would be a 4 star..... it's just not vintage Nora.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thanks Nora!
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I felt the story line was very believeable. I have many friends that are adopted and often wonder "what if" this kind of story were to "happen" to them as they get older. We live in a very, very large world but sometimes the world is indeed very small. Nora Roberts obviously researched adoption on the black market very carefully. Only if you understand how a couple of any social standing could want a baby so bad to go to any length to get one, can you sympathize with the main characters' parents. I really enjoyed Callie and Jacob's characters. The way Jacob felt about his wife was very touching. It was like two separate souls looking for each other but somehow missing the point. I would love to read about their future together. Jacob's background would be a great book to explore also. As always, when Nora Roberts really researches a subject and brings her wonderful insights into the story, you can't help but enjoy every page of her books.
Also recommended: BARK OF THE DOGWOOD and RAFE AND JARED
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Title: Key of Valor (Roberts, Nora. Key Trilogy, 3.) by Nora Roberts ISBN: 0515136530 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts ISBN: 0515136263 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Key of Knowledge by Nora Roberts ISBN: 0515136379 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Key of Light by Nora Roberts ISBN: 051513628X Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Remember When (ROBERTS, NORA) by Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb ISBN: 0399151060 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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