Public Secrets
by Nora Roberts
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Author: Nora RobertsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-03-02
ISBN: 0553285785
Number of pages: 481
Publisher: Bantam
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- Nora Roberts
- Public Secrets
- botched kidnapping attempt
- daughter of a British rock star
- Darren's murderers
Book Reviews of Public Secrets
Book Review: 5 stars!
Summary: 5 Stars
I always forget which is which between Public Secrets and Private Scandals. This is the one with the daughter of a rock star. And boy, is that first part of the book painful to read if you know what's coming.
I'm in awe of the depth of emotion in this book. Like the other single titles we've read recently, it seems to be more emotionally intense than Nora's newer single titles, though maybe that's just me.
Anyway, though Public Secrets IS a romance, it's really more of a general fiction novel, IMO. Michael shows up here & there throughout the book, but the romance isn't the main point of the book. The main point is Emma, period. We follow her life without too many interruptions from the time she's almost 3 and meets her father to the HEA ending with Michael, another thing that's unusual about this one.
Once again, Nora's genius with research shows. It's very convincing. I don't know how to explain it, but some books are obviously researched--you have laundry lists of details proving just how much research the author did, and that are a dead giveaway that the author really doesn't know the subject. Nora doesn't do that. She inserts the details in such a way that it's completely normal feeling, and you'd think that she'd either done a stint as a rock star herself or had one sitting next to her while she wrote it.
Since this was a re-read, I already knew whodunit, but it was still painful. Hard to believe they could keep quiet, keep acting as if they were friends when all along... That's just really cold.
Like I said earlier, this was Emma's story. Michael was a nice guy and all, but he was just there to be nice, to give Emma someone to fall in love with. For me, the members of Devastation were much more vivid characters than the hero in this story. Brian McAvoy and Johnno, especially.
Oh, and the tough, tough subject matter---in addition to kidnapping and murder, there's drug addiction, the perils of fame, AIDS, abusive husband, grief.
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