Legacy: A Novel

Great page turner. Great characters. A love story, mystery, thriller all in one book. Adrian may have been too good to be true but still likable and you just wanted the best for her!

I have read books by Nora Roberts for over a decade and she never disappoints me. You don't get much work done or any sleep because you want to read continuously, but that is a definite sign of a great by

FINAL DECISION: The mystery wasn't that strong for me, but I loved the relationship between these characters and the glimpse of these lives that we learn about. Adrian is a great heroine, and Raylan is just adorable. Very enjoyable read even if not perfect.THE STORY: Adrian Rizzo met her father on the day he tried to kill her and her mother.In the aftermath, her mother Lina brought her to her grandparents who live in a small town in Maryland. Adrian enjoyed that summer and met her best friend -- and her older brother, Raylan. Decades later, Adrian and Raylan are living in the same town and things seem to bring them together. At the same time, Adrian is dealing with a stalker who has sent her threatening poems for years. Her stalker is escalating, however, and is taken with murdering women as he zeros in on Adrian.OPINION: This was quite an enjoyable journey with these characters. I really loved Adrian and Raylan, who are both such caring people. Their story was very compelling, and their life as they grow together was engaging to me. I liked that the two of them had complete lives apart, but then their lives begin to overlap.Roberts does such a great job of building these towns with characters who are interesting in their own right and yet don't overwhelm the story. What she also does so well is create stories where the romance is essential to the story, and yet this is the story of a woman who has managed to build her own life with friends and family. The man adds to her existence, but she has a pretty good life even without him.I've been reading a lot of women's fiction these days, and this book demonstrates what I find missing from those stories. This book has complex characters and never seems to scream -- I'm a powerful woman. Instead, the characters are so good, and I am interested in their lives. Even without the drama of the mystery in the story, I would have been satisfied reading how these characters manage to find one another and create the possibility of sharing a life together. I supposed I should go back and read more of Robert's standalone romances.WORTH MENTIONING: This book has significant violence, including abuse, murders, and a school shooting. Most, but not all, of the violence occurs off-screen.CONNECTED BOOKS: LEGACY is a standalone book.STAR RATING: I give this book 4.5 stars.NOTE: I received an eARC of this book via Netgalley. I was not required to write a review or to write a positive review. All opinions contained herein are my own.

This is the best book listened to it for hours on our trip across country.

Beautifully sweet story with a mystery and murder twist. This one ranks in the top 5 of Nora Roberts that I have read!

Another story that I couldn't put down and hated to finish. Roberts' novels are a staple of my teacher summers.

We first meet Adrian Rizzo when she is seven. Her biological father has shown up at her mother’s Georgetown townhouse to confront the woman who bore his child. He is, after all, a revered professor (who loves messing around with the female co-eds) and his reputation might be tarnished when knowledge of his love child gets around. He is a volatile and cruel man and takes his rage out on young Adrian. But her mother, Lina, steps in to protect her daughter and in the ensuing scuffle he falls from the second floor and dies.Years later, Adrian is in high school and after living in the shadow of her mother’s career is ready to step out on her own. Lina Rizzo is what’s known as a fitness guru with her own brand on her exercise DVDs, clothing line, and so much more. This is how she provides for herself and Adrian but the relationship between mother and daughter is almost nil – Lina puts her work and her travel schedule before her daughter. Adrian learns to be self-sufficient at an early age. She quietly recruits a tight group of nerdy fellow-students to help her and she produces her own fitness DVDs.Throughout her growing years, Adrian has formed a close relationship with her grandparents (Lina’s parents) who live in Traveler’s Creek, a small, country town in Virginia. Adrian feels loved and makes lifelong friends who seem to ground her while supporting her growing fitness line. But soon after Adrian becomes a public figure she begins to receive poems – not of the flattering kind. It soon becomes apparent that she has a stalker. But with the poems coming once a year on Valentine’s Day can this truly be something to worry about? Lina worries for her daughter but advises turning things over to the police, which Adrian does.When Adrian’s grandmother dies, she moves in with her aging grandfather. She’s always loved their house and sets about creating an exercise studio in the basement. For companionship and protection she gets herself a large dog named Sadie who falls in love with Jasper, a dog belonging to one of Adrian’s friends. When the stalker/serial killer makes the final move on Adrian, things come to an exciting close.There is so much going on in this book that sometimes it was a bit difficult to follow. We have the mystery of the serial killer/stalker; there’s the ever-changing relationship between Adrian and her mother; the growing success of Adrian’s fitness business; and the slow burn romance between Adrian and one of her life-long friends who is healing from the loss of his wife. Any one of these topics would be sufficient for a stand-alone book yet they are thrown together to form a tapestry of words.Ms. Roberts is a solid storyteller. No doubt about that as is evidenced by her prolific writing. But for me this novel was a bit slow. The action is concentrated at the beginning and the final twenty pages; the remainder is backstory. In her signature style, Ms. Roberts does a good job of getting inside her characters’ minds and letting the reader feel one with them. And while the suspense grows throughout the story, I think it could have been a little more intense.Overall, another winner for Nora Roberts.

As always a great book from Nora Roberts. Wonderful characters, good plot line, an easy feel good story for her fans.

Legacy começa com um texto que me levou à primeiras obras da Nora Roberts, bem mais simples. Surgiu a dúvida se o texto era simples por situar as frases numa criança/adolescente. Parece-me que isso foi confirmado pelo texto da parte adulta da personagem principal, escrito no padrão atual da autora. Muito bom, levando ao envolvimento emocional usual presente nos livros dela.Legacy begins with a text that took me to the first works of Nora Roberts, much simpler. The question arose whether the text was simple because it placed the sentences in a child/adolescent. It seems to me that this has been confirmed by the text of the adult part of the main character, written in the author's current pattern. Very good, leading to the usual emotional involvement present in her books.

I have loved Norah Roberts as an author for many years. Legacy is one of the best I have read. The storyline kept me reading into the early morning and it was hard to wait till the next day to finish. A great completion to the twist and turns. I give it 5 stars.

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Acompanhamos a personagem principal da adolescência a fase adulta. Um romance com a solução de um mistério.

Loved everyone of her books