"The world of social media is center stage in this new novel by Nora Roberts"
Legacy
By: Nora Roberts
Genres: Romance Suspense | Thriller | Women's Fiction Psychological
Posted: May 25, 2021
Bit of a literary irony in LEGACY by Nora Roberts. We are drawn into, what appears to be on the surface, a lovely family drama of sorts. Kind of parent-child competition. Adrian’s childhood had been an unscripted array of events evolving around her very successful mother Lina. Adrian had all the requisite creature comforts minus a nurturing mother. That role was taken on by nanny Mimi and at times Lina’s parents, the Rizzos.
Nora Robert completely envelopes the story in a somewhat cozy cloak of family and friends and when you least expect it drama. You might want to call that the legacy of Nora Roberts – no pun intended – and so the title of her latest hit novel being LEGACY is ironic. Fans of this amazingly prolific author will grin at the unexpected turn the story takes. Ah, Nora Roberts at her creative literary best. In short, expect the unexpected, after all this is LEGACY by the one and only Nora Roberts.
Dilemma. Just what should a reviewer include in a review? My practice is less is more so I will not give away very much of the plotline. The characters in LEGACY take on a life of their own. Adrian is smart, creative and somewhat as driven as her mother Lina. The irony is that Lina’s drive had very much to do with their ultimate lifestyle and although there were definite moments when you could feel the pain of being second place it appears as if Adrian has taken a page right out of her mothers’ playbook.
Adrian is extraordinarily intelligent and lovely. Her friendship with the three nerds, their own descriptions of themselves, has developed into something quite amazing. They pool their intellectual and creative talents and create a product that propels them all into a new world. Success follows but then public scrutiny intrudes. Not all fans are good people. The world is full of dangerous souls that feed on the success and notoriety of those in the public eye.
LEGACY is about becoming the subject of a crazed fan so to speak. And that is when this lovely story takes an abrupt lane change thanks to the genius of Nora Roberts.
Book Summary
The #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a new novel of a mother and a daughter, of ambition and romance, and of a traumatic past reawakened by a terrifying threat…
Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her--before her mother, Lina, stepped in.
Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents’ house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend--and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend’s ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand and turning it into a billion-dollar business. There was no point in dwelling on the past.
A decade later, Adrian has created her own line of yoga and workout videos, following in Lina’s footsteps but intent on maintaining creative control. And she’s just as cool-headed and ambitious as her mother. They aren’t close, but they’re cordial--as long as neither crosses the other.
But while Lina dismisses the death threats that Adrian starts getting as a routine part of her daughter’s growing celebrity, Adrian can’t help but find the vicious rhymes unsettling. Year after year, they keep arriving--the postmarks changing, but the menacing tone the same. They continue after she returns to Maryland and becomes reacquainted with Raylan, her childhood crush, all grown up and as gorgeously green-eyed as ever. Sometimes it even seems like the terrifying messages are indeed routine, like nothing will come of them. Until the murders start, and the escalation begins…
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by: Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press
June 1, 2021
On Sale: May 25, 2021
Featuring: Raylan; Adrian Rizzo
400 pages
ISBN: 1250272939
EAN: 9781250272935
Kindle: B08FGVFNP7
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