Takes several courses in her fields of interest at different universities, with no mention of how the tuition was paid.Escapes from Russian Mobsters intent on her life and gets police protection, then goes into hiding for years, with $15K to her name.On her first attempt she creates professional level fake ids ( with materials that her mother, a doctor, keeps stocked in the house ).Early admission into medical school while simultaneously teaching herself criminology with a focus on cyber crime.
But this one – well, if I was going to ever use the term ‘Mary Sue’ in relation to a Nora Roberts character this would be the one. Nora’s written geniuses before – many times. And frankly, she lost me with this character. Now, I write code, so of all the careers Nora has covered, I feel like I have some insight into what that job is like. In this book though, Liz/Abby is a programmer. The realities of any career – tedium, danger, pain, injury, hard work, repetition – are always shown. Blue Hills, Northern Lights and The Search are all favorites because of their glimpses into wildcat rescue, life in Alaska and search and rescue dogs. Off the top of my head we’ve seen the world of ballerinas ( several times ), chefs, marine archeologists, writers, cops, hostage negotiators, psychics, witches, musicians, art restorers/historians, bush pilots, firefighters, arson investigators, search and rescue dogs, wild cat rescue parks, actresses, gardeners, renovators/contractors, shopkeeper and dozens more. One of my other favorite things about Nora’s writing is the glimpses we get into different worlds and careers.
It’s a familiar routine that draws me into the book – check one item of my ‘why I read Nora’ list. The core of any Nora plot is always the romance, the building of trust and a the couple working towards a shared purpose – which is usually to save the Woman-with-a-Past from that past. It’s the same kind of suspicious initial response that she’s done in Carnal Innocence, Sanctuary and Angel’s Fall.
It’s the Charming-Man meets Woman-with-a-Past pattern that Nora does so well. The book starts out with the main character in childhood, then continues with her as an adult living in a small town. I’ve been a bit behind on buying her books in the last year, and was looking forward to the Witness. I have her entire back catalog in storage right now ( there being no room in our apartment for the 11 bookshelves we had before ).
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