Summer Pleasures [2-in-1]: Second Nature • One Summer (2002)

Not Nora's best....: This was a two-tales-in-one book by the wonderful author Nora Roberts. For some reason this book just didn't do it for me at all. The first story "Second Nature" is about magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe and recluse horror author Hunter Brown. I thought the chemistry betwwen these two characters was force fed to the reader by a bulldozer. Hunter was too perfect, he never made mistakes and he was incredibly arrogant announcing how Lee had to do this and that without ever giving up anything himself. Definitly not Nora's normal style.
The second story was "One Summer" about two photojournalists Bryan Mitchell and Shade Colby. I liked this book alot better. The couple was likable and the romance seemed real. Then I don't know what happened. Nora Roberts deadline approached and she just sort of ended the story. It was really weird. Good romance, ubrupt ending.
I wouldn't run right out and but this book , but if your a fan......

SECOND NATURE. This is rather a rambling tale of a magazine journalist trying to get into the mind of a mysterious best selling novelist while on a camping trek. Slow, ponderous, but nonetheless it kept my attention.
ONE SUMMER. If this hadn't been written as a romance, this would have been an enjoyable light travelogue throughout parts of the U.S. capturing events and human nature with a camera. Well written, though the two main characters were not defined enough for me. ( )

February 2006 ( )