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"Why High Noon?", High Noon by Nora Roberts It is a mystery, action and a love story and it is also a bestseller. The main Character is Phoebe McNamara. It tells about Phoebe's childhood and the life she and her brother had with their mother when they were young, it also tell about her life and her romances. Phoebe was an FBI agent, and later became a lieutenant and a negotiator in a local precinct in her home town. Phoebe found her calling at an early age, when her mother's boyfriend trapped and terrorized them for hours. She was only seven when this happen, she tried talking to her mother's boyfriend and negotiates with him, so he can let them go. She enjoys her job as a negotiator. It's satisfying work for Phoebe and sometimes those skills come in handy at home when she deals with her agoraphobic mother. She met the handsome millionaire Duncan Swift while talking one of his employees off a roof ledge. I think that it was love at first sight when Phoebe walked into the room. Duncan could not take his eyes away from her. Phoebe had twenty five cops in a training session. There was one cop who could not stand Phoebe being in charge because she was a woman. The officer name was Arnold Meeks. Officer Meeks disrespected Phoebe. After this incident it was clear that someone was stoking Phoebe, so her intension was to find out who was stoking her. This novel is easy to follow because there is something interesting going on every page. Duncan Swift seems like such a romantic person. I loved the way he would talk to her, so soft and gentle. I enjoyed reading Nora Roberts's books because there are always romances and a gripping thriller that will have you guessing from start to finish. It is so true about Nora Roberts; she always has a mesmerizing and intriguing tale to write.

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"'High Noon' took up too much time!", I'm relatively unfamiliar with Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb's work, having only read one Eve Dallas short story, and nothing written under the author's real name, prior to this book.
I thought the premise and backstory of the characters were both good, but after a while, the pacing was a bit of a problem. The 'police procedural' aspects were fine, but the romantic subplot just didn't deliver as much as it promised. I thought the action really dragged from around chapter 15 until close to the end of the story, and many of the scenes involving Phoebe and Duncan seemed repetitive. Even the conclusion lacked a satisfying resolution for some of the plot threads. Duncan's personality quirks grated on me after a while, and his rather convoluted family background added little, if anything to the story, and could have been largely, if not entirely, left out.
Roberts just seemed to pull the story's 'real' villain out of a hat in the latter chapters, after forcing us to read through a rather pointless section in which she reviews a few of her older cases(all red herrings) before finally 'discovering' who's behind it all. I prefer the villains in mystery/crime stories to have been introduced earlier, rather than have a 'surprise' character thrown in like this. Even the tie-in with the film 'High Noon' was rather forced, particularly Phoebe's attempt to equate each character in the movie with the protagonists in the story.
With all of the 'twists and turns', much of the character-driven storylines weren't wrapped up properly. It seemed like the only thing that really made Phoebe realize that Duncan was 'the one' for her, was the fact that the author was running out of pages.
It's disappointing when a book that runs for nearly 500 pages still feels 'rushed' and not completely finished.

"Okay thriller that falls flat", I read Roberts' Circle Trilogy and thought I'd give this one a try. The premise of each of her books, I have discovered, is pretty much the same: strong female type falls in love under strange circumstances and everything is happy-go-lucky in the end. "High Noon" was, nonetheless, cheesy and predictable. It was a really easy read because there was little to no detail in the scenery or anything else, for that matter. The focus was more on the dialogue and emotions between Phoebe and her new beau, Duncan - completely unrealistic dialogue and emotions, at that. I was thinking the whole time: "who says this stuff?"
But what really got me was the last 3 pages. Up until then I thought this was a cool little romance novel - not too deep... then I realized there were only 3 pages left. The situation in the final scene ends so abruptly and nothing is explained - absolutely nothing. It left me not even wanting to finish. But I did - I'd gotten that far. The last three pages? Happy-go-lucky cheese. How does everything go back completely normal minutes after what happens? It left me unsatisfied. Thanks Nora. I won't be reading any more of your books because they're all the same.

"Too Many Threads", I've read many Nora Roberts books and "High Noon" was another book with the Nora Roberts "hook"...hooks that grab your attention in the first paragraph and usually hold your attention captive. This book seemed to have a lot of characters but without depth or much background. I started wondering if one of the "good" guys was really the criminal in question. It just didn't make sense to me that Walken would be introduced somewhere waaaay down the line with little background. Added to that, one thing I really dislike about most of these books are the abrupt endings. Once the catastrophe is averted, the story usually winds up without any follow-up as to the main characters. My favorites would have to be the Chesapeake Bay series and the Irish Trilogies becasue they did continue on with more storyline and actually left me very sad to end the saga. Please, more books that continue.....

"High Noon", I enjoyed this book very much. Nora Roberts has a way of putting me into the story from the start and I can't stop. I have enjoyed all of Roberts books including the J.D. Robb series.

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"Not her best work", I have read all of Roberts' books, including her Robb books. I think this is the only one I didn't like. It just didn't click for me. The plot was okay, but something just wasn't right. I'm not sure if it was the characters or the way the story developed, but this was one Roberts book could have lived without.

"A lost opportunity to do it differently", I have read many Nora Roberts novels in the past, some of which have kept me up long past a reasonable bedtime anticipating that thrilling ending I'd come to love. I wouldn't say that she tops my favorites list but I have come to expect that her "hardcover" novels will be written to a certain standard. This one failed to meet the mark somehow. I just wish I could figure out why.

The store line was fine; it was what we have come to expect from her novels. The characters, if not completely engaging, were at least likable. The setting was Savannah, one of my favorite cities in the US. And maybe that was the problem. You hear Savannah, you read that characters are born and bred in that briarpatch, and you expect them to act in certain ways that would be consistent with that part of the country. That element was totally missing from this novel. Savannah isnt' "like" any place else, with the possible exception of Charleston, and the people who are from Savannah have a different edge to them. These characters and their story were based in Savannah but the action could have taken place in any generic US town with water access. I never got a "place" feel from the book and if you're going to go to the effort to base a book in Savannah you need to add that element. Just one little ghost would have made it so much more interesting. And we know how Roberts loves to add those spooky little elements to her books.

Here's what I think...there is a definite formula for her hardcover releases that the publisher believes is her winning formula; her paperback releases have become her more creative efforts. I couldn't help but feel that I'd read this story too many times in the past - set in Idaho, or Washington, or California, well you get my point. It was tweaked a bit from other novels but the story was essentially the same. And there was no Savannah to be found. What a waste. Her setting offered the perfect opportunity to deviate from the formula enough to make the book interesting and fresh for her readers. I wouldn't expect "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" but I would have loved to have had just a little touch of "place" feel from her.

In the end, this isn't a bad book, but it is a disappointment. I think I'll stick to her paperback-only releases from now on. I prefer not to reread the same story yet again.

"Glad to get a hold of this one!", I have to say, I am a looooong time reader of Nora Roberts' work. For the last couple of years, her books have kind of taken a detour. Lots of those three in one books and some written in genres that I don't really care for. Not bad at all, just not my personal taste.

That said, I was sooo glad to get a hold of this newer book, High Noon. Nora really does an outstanding job mapping out her characters, making them vivid and helping the reader really get acquainted with them and the settings of her stories. Lieutennant Phoebe MacNamara and her family and friends as well as the villains of this story are shining examples of Nora's talent in this area. The plot was gripping, the mystery was riveting, and the romance provided just the right balance for such a colorful story. High Noon is my favorite class of Nora's writing although she's done amazing, amazing work from all kinds of genres, plots, story lines throughout the year. I would highly recommend it to anyone, her fans or people that may not be familiar with her work. Well done!

Nora, thank you, since I have had my daughter back in 06, this is the first book I have been able to "eat" like I used to. Loved it, couldn't put it down, and I can't wait to see your next one! You are the reason I keep my eyes on the book aisle at the store, thanks for sharing your talents.

"Enjoyable, but she's written better", As always Nora Roberts writes an enjoyable novel with a strong, suspenseful plotline, good pacing, and a well developed cast of secondary characters. The main characters were likable and believable, with great chemistry. I do think it wasn't her best effort, though, for two reasons:

1) The hero was perfect - but almost too perfect. He's handsome, intelligent, generous, considerate and rich. In other words, he's EVERYONE'S Mr. Right, not one tailored to the heroine. I think that's usually one of Nora Roberts' strengths - her couples often less then perfect, but they're well suited to each other, whereas Duncan was more of a generic knight in shining armor type. Part of the problem, I think, was that relatively little of the story was written from his perspective, and most of the scenes that were, weren't particularly important to the plot, so I didn't ever feel like I got a good sense of him.

2) It ended much too abruptly, leaving open a handful of things that were never really well explained and developed, that I kept waiting to hear more about.

That said, Nora Roberts at her worst (which this wasn't) is still better than a lot of authors at their best, so I'd still highly recommend it.


"Not her best", First I should say I've read this at least four times, and I still don't feel like I fully get it. Duncan seems like a nice guy, but his backstory came so late in the book that I almost missed it the first time. And as for the conflict Phoebe feels about the house and her mother, I feel like that could've and should've been drawn out so much more. There's a sense of being rushed through the whole story, and it's partly because some of the lines are phrases and not whole sentences. It doesn't help that I read this for the first time right before I read "The Hollow," and this book fares worse in comparison.