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A review by lassarina
Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts
4.0
I love Nora Roberts, and I love this book. I like the crushingly accurate picture of how depression and anxiety can seize hold of someone and make it hard for them to function. I loved watching Eli find himself and his heart and how he was going to heal in Whiskey Beach. I loved the sense of small-town closeness, which Roberts does really well. I loved Abra—her intentional optimism, which is a big thing with me, was just so spot-on. She knows there's bad shit out in the world, and she has chosen to make her corner of it better to the best of her ability, and to believe in the best in people, without being stupid about it.
I loved Eli's family, which is another thing that Nora Roberts does really well, and the sense of sheer history that winds through the book. I liked that things were messy and didn't tie up well. I adored Hester in particular; what a great grandma. This was my second read of the book, which was interesting because I knew the solution to the mystery, but I was having fun tracking the clues as I went along. Overall, another winner.
I loved Eli's family, which is another thing that Nora Roberts does really well, and the sense of sheer history that winds through the book. I liked that things were messy and didn't tie up well. I adored Hester in particular; what a great grandma. This was my second read of the book, which was interesting because I knew the solution to the mystery, but I was having fun tracking the clues as I went along. Overall, another winner.