Another lunchtime read: Nora Roberts’ Birthright. I’d basically stopped reading Roberts’ mainstream hardcovers, as she’s best at people forming relationships and living their lives, and I found the ObVillains distractions from that. (Her mainstream paperbacks have lately tended towards dopey New Age plots, alas, so I haven’t read the latest sets of those either.) Somewhere I saw a favorable review of Birthright, however, and when it turned up in the paperback exchange, I decided to give it a try.
It started out fairly well: there were only two couples instead of the three Roberts tends toward, which kept the focus tighter; and the fallout from one character’s secret adoption is nicely nuanced, even to my hyper-sensitive reading. But the villain is really just tedious. Can’t I please get some rational bad guys for a change?