I’ve recently started keeping track of the books I read using Goodreads.com. I was thinking that it’s a shame I’ve never catalogued any of the books I’ve read, I’m sure it must amount to hundreds over the years. So, I decided to track them on Goodreads. Of course, I can always put up reviews on my blog, but I also wanted a proper reading catalog. This will probably enable me to put up reviews a lot more often, otherwise the books look so sad on my virtual bookshelves, without any reviews attached to them. I’ve got about 5 in queue, so here’s the first one.

Nora Roberts has always been one of my favorite authors, from her romance novels to her murder series, written by her pseudonym, JD Robb. So, whenever a new book is published, I pick it up, no matter what it’s about!

Twelve year old Cooper Sullivan was sent to the Black Hills to stay with his grandparents for the summer. He hated it initially because he was away from his friends and was of the opinion that he was stuck out in the country, but after awhile, he came to like it. He met Lil, a ten year old girl, and they became friends, brought together by their mutual love of baseball.

After that summer, he came back once in awhile to visit his grandparents in Lil, but nothing happened until he was in college. They became lovers, but due to certain circumstances, they eventually drifted apart.

Now, years later, Lil runs a successful wildlife center which takes in animals that can no longer survive in the wild. Coop has returned from his previous job (private investigator in NY) to help out his grandparents with their farm and business.

A serial killer is introduced into the story, and he’s set his sights on Lil. Coop starts to get involved again, after all, they’ve always been in love…

There’s another sub-romance in the book between Lil’s colleague, Tansy, and Lil’s “kind-of-brother”, Farley. Tansy was reluctant to get involved with Farley, because she was older (only by four years!), and because she was black and he was white. This little romance was really sweet, and had me rooting for Farley all the way!

All in all, it wasn’t Nora Roberts best work, but definitely a book that kept me entertained most of the way.

Book: Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Read in: September 2009
Rating: 7/10

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