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> Genre: Fiction > “Heroism’s just doing more than you want to do or think you can.” (CBR11 Bingo)

“Heroism’s just doing more than you want to do or think you can.” (CBR11 Bingo)

Northern Lights by Nora Roberts

August 13, 2019 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I’m glad this Bingo Square is Summer Read, not Beach Read because I have a very peculiar definition of what I read at the beach and it is not vacation “light reading”! Northern Lights might not count for some (there are a few murders and a male protagonist fighting through depression) but a Nora Roberts romance will always be a Summer Read for me.

I’ve read Northern Lights before, but its been a long time. In Northern Lights we follow Nate Burke as he moves from Baltimore Maryland to Lunacy Alaska to take the newly founded job as the Chief of Police. Nate is also running from the death of his partner less than a year ago. As you would expect in a town called Lunacy, it is teeming with an cast of characters rightfully called Lunatics. Amongst the Lunatics are Burke’s officers, townspeople convinced that someone from Outside should not have been brought in as the Chief, and those who doubt the need for a Police force at all.

An unexpected meet cute with the always dressed in red Meg Galloway leads to what you would expect in a romance novel, but what I love about Meg is that she is entirely self-sufficient in the world which is saying quite a lot for a character who lives in remote Alaska. She is the kind of character I’ve come to expect in 2019, but Roberts had her on the page 15 years ago. It can be easy to take hits at Roberts, her books are often formulaic, and I probably don’t need to revisit many of her trilogies. Nevertheless her standalones, and particularly those focused around some sort of mystery, are reliably good reads.

This is one of those reliable reads, in Lunacy things heat up as a former resident is discovered to have been murdered 16 years earlier. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder is still in town and his investigation unearths some of the secrets that lurk beneath the frozen surface of the town, further complicating his burgeoning relationships in his new hometown, including Meg. I remembered *most* of the plot but had thankfully forgotten the identity of the killer and enjoyed this book as much on reread as I had remembered doing when I decided to request it from the library. Afterall, Roberts is the queen of romance for a reason.

Bingo Square: Summer Read

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: a little romance, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Nora Roberts, Northern Lights, not a series, summer read

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: a little romance, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Nora Roberts, Northern Lights, not a series, summer read ·
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  1. emmalita says

    August 15, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    I read Roberts for years. Northern Lights is one of my favorites of hers, if not my most favorite. Meg is awesome.

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    • faintingviolet says

      August 16, 2019 at 8:56 am

      Meg is one of the strongest, most self aware protagonists I’ve ever read and it was my fond memories of her character and interactions with Burke that got this one back on my to read list, and thankfully Bingo gave me an excuse for it to pass up other things already on my hold list. 🙂

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