The Witness

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Brooks was also a smart cookie, and recognized signs that made him suspect Abigail is running from something. When his charming but tenacious drive for information is combined with a meddling hippie free-loving mother, Abigail slowly begins to trust him. Loved the secondary characters in the small Southern town, especially Sunny, Brooks' hippie mother who paints fantastical murals on her house. Heartwarming scenes with Abby's protective dog, Bert -- especially when he got to finally romp around with kids and dogs, after so many years of hiding in isolation. Good police drama with idiotic young Justin Blake and his arrogant wealthy father. The Wittness was from the very first chapter nerve-tingling and breathlessly exciting. I was at once on my edge. This pretty clever storyplot —mainly about fear, revenge, cruelty... but also about to fit in, be a "normal" girl, be loved and to sincerely trust someone once again— really got me.

Liz has been on the run ever since. We move on to Brook’s part of the story which takes us to a little town in the Ozarks. Brooks is the Sheriff of the town and he is intrigued with the newcomer that stays to herself. He noses around a bit, like any good cop and forms a relationship with Liz, who is now going by the name Abigail. This is where the story goes from fantastic to blow me away. This book is all about character. The ending is absolutely fantastic. I thought it was going to go one way and she blew me away with the outcome. I’ve read a lot of Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb books over the years, but this book, is by far one of her best books period. Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. In her stunning 200th novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts proves why no one is better “when it comes to flawlessly fusing high-stakes suspense with red-hot romance” ( Booklist, starred review). The first few chapters are very well written (about the heroine in her teens) but the hero does not appear until much later and then their relationship develops quite fast. I actually dozed off in the middle of their first bedroom scene!!What didn't work quite as well as the diversion that the storyline takes with the Blake family and their out-of-control son. While this was more germane to Brooks Gleason's (Abigail's love interest) narrative, I don't think it really tied very well into the main plot of Abigail, what and who she was running from, and I'm not sure it was that important to Brooks' characterization. Even at the end, I wasn't convinced that it was necessary to the story. More than anything, it was just added local color. The heroine Elizabeth Fitch/Abigail Lowery is such an unusual heroine type. A genius daughter of a neurosurgeon, her entire life was mapped out for her. In a fit of rebellion at age 16, she becomes a witness to a gruesome murder by a Russian mofia organization in Chicago. Believing she can trust the system to protect her, she nearly loses everything. Typical Nora. Heroine is bestest/smartest ever, with an understated beauty and the ability to handle firearms/hand-to-hand combat like a Navy Seal, with a tragic secret/life predicament that only the hero, with his charm, good looks and supportive family, can save her from, with her own help, that is. Nora doesn’t do weak women. See there, we just keep finding common ground. If this keeps up, we’ll be best friends inside a week.”

In her stunning 200th novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts proves why no one is better “when it comes to flawlessly fusing high-stakes suspense with red-hot romance" ( Booklist, starred review). When I tell people that I read romance, they often ask, "Like Nora Roberts?" I'll confess, I used to scoff at those people. I viewed myself as way hipper or cooler than Nora Roberts... but now that I've actually TRIED her stuff, I'll admit that I was dead wrong. Heat level: Mild. They have some mild tension, chemistry, and scenes -- but not so much it takes away from the story. I will definately listen to The Witness again, if not possible 3 or 4 times due to the fact that it is written and preformed at such a level that it's a pure joy to listen to.

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Fast forward twelve years. Elizabeth has become Abigail Lowery. She is living in a small town in the Ozarks. She has found a place she loves. A place she would like to call home. But she knows she can’t stay. Still, though, she has put down roots here. She has planted a butterfly garden and vegetable garden. She keeps to herself. She’s known as a loner. But there is one person that would like to break through that protective shell and see who is underneath. I like suspense stories with a lot of romance feeling there... and some steamy hot moments. ~ I actually got it all here. (Some small dance moves..) She was happy, she realized, as she marked off her plot with string and stakes. Really happy. With spring, with work, with her home. With Brooks. Had she been really happy before? Surely there had been moments...’ To be honest, I'm a bit mean giving this two stars, but on a comparative level to the books I would give three stars, it falls a little bit flat. And yet I still loved every illogical, far fetched bit of it. And look forward to reading it again in a year or so when I have forgotten every bit of it.

The impetus for writing came during a heavy snowstorm in the year 1979. Snowed in, she began to put ideas to paper, and these notes soon became a manuscript for what would become a later novel. She soon had six completed manuscripts that she submitted, without success to, Harlequin Publishing, being rejected multiple times. She found success with the newly formed Silhouette Publishing with her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, being published in 1981.

h (heroine) rating: 4 stars. Elizabeth/Abigail. I liked her. She reminded me of my aspie with her literal ways. She was smart, sweet, and strong. I really wanted Elizabeth's horrible mother (Dr. Susan "F") to be publicly shamed, maybe in court or in the press. Elizabeth Fitch has an eidetic memory, is a genius, is only 16, is unloved by her mother, and is ready to break out of the prison that is her life. And, break-out she does. Unfortunately, it ended up being the worst thing she could have ever done, and things will only get worse, so badly in fact, that she has to hide and assume a new identity. Personally, I dislike religious swearing. Wish this author would stop. F-bombs are fine with me, in moderation.

In her stunning 200th novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts proves why no one is better when it comes to flawlessly fusing high-stakes suspense with red-hot romance" ( Booklist , starred review). In the next scene, we get the clichéd Other Woman. The other woman is usually a beautiful blonde, and she is either a bitchy ex-wife, or a clinging ex-girlfriend who won't let go. In this case it's the clinging ex-girlfriend. I hate the beautiful blonde cliché. Being blond and beautiful does not make a woman evil.

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Brooks me ha gustado mucho, un señor, un hombre tan tan tan paciente que es justo lo que Abigail necesita.