A review by anbananova
Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts

dark sad

2.0

I think I liked this book the first time I read it, but that was a translation into another language—maybe some of the harsher details were softened. Reading it now, I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much. The only real highlight was the MMC. I adored him. Everyone else? Not so much.

The first flashback chapter was disgusting. I just “love” reading a vivid description of a brutal rape. Then, to make it worse, the attacker’s mother helped him cover it up and created a justifiable story for him. Honestly, I don’t know who was worse—the rapist or his mother. After that, I skipped all the flashbacks and wished I’d skipped the first one too.

Declan was great—a standup guy who did my favorite thing: he fell in love first and made his intentions for the FMC very clear. But I didn’t like her. She didn’t appreciate him enough, and the more I read, the more she frustrated me. At some point, I just wanted him to do what she kept telling him to—ditch her and move on.
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