"Legacy - What we are made of."
Legacy
By: Nora Roberts
Genres: Romance Suspense | Thriller | Women's Fiction Psychological
Posted: June 21, 2021
LEGACY is the story of Adriana Rizzo and her family's legacy. A legacy made up of equally good as well as bad parts of her whole family. Adriana Rizzo is a wellness, fitness video content creator in the story, following in the footsteps of her mother. While her mother left her small hometown back and moved to bigger, busier cities Adrian always yearned for her grandparents' small hometown. It is where she moves to for a summer following the terrible and gruesome first and last meeting with her father.
Once she is of age, independent, successful, and after her grandmother's passing, Adrian moves to her beloved hometown for good. She may have moved home however what follows her there is what the gruesome meeting with her father started more than a decade back.
She is successful professionally, has a great support system for friends and family. However, there is an unseen threat hanging over her head for a long time which comes to head once she is alone in her now-deceased grandparents' house. Will she let her legacy of bad blood destroy her or let the good win and give her power and a threat-free future?
I've read very few books by Nora Roberts and since I saw this I was curious to see how her standalones fare. LEGACY is a story that very much reminded me of the strong, women-centric, empowering stories I read by some other popular bestselling authors. That said what I like about LEGACY, is the fresh plot, the story line, the backdrop of the characters especially their profession, and how it plays a role in their personal lives. I would say the story line of LEGACY sure gave me a sense of how the central characters' life was entwined with their legacy in an intimate and unavoidable way.
I would read again and recommend LEGACY, especially if you like the old-school style of stories where the focus is on the characters. The characters pull your attention and there is no distraction or interference of what's happening in today's world.
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
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook