Nora Roberts: From the MacGregors To The O'Dwyers And Everything In Between

[DearEvette]

We do get hero POV in this one.  In fact one of the better parts of the later bit of the book is the 'black moment' that we get from the hero's POV.  But the majority is from hers. Remember we don't even meet him til about halfway through.  But when he comes on we do get his.

One thing I wish she would back away from is the villain's POV.  They all sound alike in her books, unfortunately.  I absolutely hated the villain's POV in Shelter in Place. Sometimes I wish they were true mysteries and we don't know until the villain is caught why they did it or who they are.  I think it would add an additional moment of revelation in the end.

[GHScorpiosRule]

5 minutes ago, DearEvette said:

One thing I wish she would back away from is the villain's POV.

Agree. I don't need to be in the villain's POV; I don't CARE. Sandra Brown went waaay beyond with the Villain's POV in The Crush. 

I like the sparsing of it, like we got in The Witness. 

But I don't want the whiffing at the end like we got in Nightwork.

I know, I know. I'm so demanding!

[GHScorpiosRule]

I just started my umpteenth re-read of Divine Evil, and each time, it scares the bejesus outta me!

While Jane Rafferty Stokey isn't the worst mother (like Maeve, Gloria or that BITCH Grandma Byden), I don't like her very much and don't have much sympathy for her because she rejected Cameron to "stand by" her second abusing, philandering, raping husband. Yeah, yeah, she lived during a time when wives put up with that shit. I don't care. It wasn't until she found Biff's Satanic materials that her eyes were opened.

But I really, really, really love Cameron Rafferty. And I really love the relationship between him and Clare. 

[GHScorpiosRule]

So another thing about Divine Evil.

As much as I love Clare, I didn't agree that she had a right to know what was going on with Lisa (woman who escaped the raping satanists and who Clare thought she'd run over) or that Cam HAD to tell her or let her see Lisa.