Black Hills |  | Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Jove
Category: eBooks
In Stock
Rating:  139 reviews
Sales Rank: 568
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1st
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B002AU7MFY
Publication Date: May 22, 2009
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Product Description
The #1 New York Times betseller
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts takes readers deep into the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, where the shadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a childhood friendship matures into an adult passion.
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 awesome book July 31, 2009
C. Nowatzki (Kingsport, TN)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had been disappointeed in the last couple of NR books i had read but this one really grabbed my attention. Not only am I a fan of NR but I'm a huge animal lover. I loved all the detail and even gained some knnowledge of the cougar. NR has redeemed herself. keep 'em coming!
A fine dish of romance mixed with mystery March 12, 2010
Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The very popular Nora Roberts wrote some four dozen romance books under her own name and some two and a half dozen murder mysteries ending with the word "death" as J. D. Robb. Many public libraries devote an entire shelf to her "recent books." This volume successfully mixes romance, mystery, murder, suspense, family, and a love of and respect for animals.
The plot is the traditional tale of preteens of opposite sexes being introduced reluctantly, infatuation, love, the girl's first sex, separation as they leave for college, tears, the male finding new interests, relations broken, misunderstandings, and meeting again with suspicions. However, Nora Roberts' version is well-crafted and filled with "schmaltz" and loving, faultless and considerate grandparents, horses and cougars. The girl is goal oriented, acquires a PhD, starts a successful business and is highly respected. The boy quits college, becomes a police officer, leaves to form his own detective agency and then abandons it. He has few friends and is unable to discover what he wants to be.
The two find a dead body when they are youngsters. Years later, they hear of other similar murders. Suspense builds as we wonder if the murders are somehow related to our heroin. Then, the couple encounters someone who murders animals and we wonder if this is also related to her. Thus, even readers who dislike romances will enjoy this tale.
super romantic suspense July 8, 2009
Harriet Klausner
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
At eleven years old Coop Sullivan was sent for the summer to his grandparents' South Dakota ranch. Although he objected as he never wanted to go, he meets Lil Chance there and he learns to love his relatives who shower him with love back. This was the most wonderful summer of his life and he repeated it for years until he and Lil fell in love. However, they went their separate ways to attend colleges many miles apart until he deserted his Lil and their love.
Now almost a decade later, Coop is at the ranch caring for his grandmother and Lil is back too. The wildlife biologist wants no part of her former lover, the ex police officer turned private investigator. However she needs him when uncontroversial proof surfaces that the man who killed some animals and a man waits for her on her animal refuge. Coop risks his life to keep his beloved Lil safe and hopes the time will give him a chance to make amends for his failure as he now knows with maturity she is the one.
BLACK HILLS is Nora Roberts at her magical best as she constructs what seems on the surface as a formulaic romantic suspense, but in her words turns into a thrilling love story. Lil is terrific as she understands her peril and turns to the only person she trusts to keep her alive when the High Noon confrontation she (and readers) anticipates occurs. Coop would be resolute anyway, but has the additional motive of regaining and retaining Lil in his life. In some ways the killing predator steals the show as he hunts two and four legged beasts. Ms. Roberts shows why she is consistently a best seller author with this super thriller.
Harriet Klausner
Well Done July 27, 2009
Mrs Patricia McLean (Melbourne, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well Done... I actually downloaded this book to my iPod then bought the hard copy to read while someone read the story to me. I just loved listening to someone read it to me. The reader, Nick Podell (hope I spelled his name correctly) did an excellent job and I had many a giggle with the way he represented each character. Black Hills is a very good book and I enjoyed the whole story of how Lil and Coop met.... their relationship through their lives and how they become lovers again all while Lil was being stalked by a psychopath. Being an Aussie, I've never been to Sth Dakota and have no idea what the scenery was like.... but listening to the book gave me a good idea. I thoroughly enjoyed the story....Keep up the good work Nora.
Finally! She's back on track. July 13, 2009
Queen G (Tennessee)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I too have read Nora Roberts for many years and I have to agree with the reviewers that state her last few books have been below par. They were better suited to checking out of the library, rather than reaching in your wallet. This one is an exception. It goes beyond the imagery of the setting, which was well written. Roberts once again manages to bring forth a wide array of joy, sorrow, suspense and drama in this one. It was a pleasure to read, and painful to put down to do my day to day tasks.
I won't rehash some of the scenes, as that can be read from other reviewers, but let me end with this one thought. As you stand in line at the bookstore, trying to decide if this Roberts hardback is worth the cost...pull out your wallet. She got it right with this one.
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