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while I do love a good Nora Roberts book, I have read so many that I can't remember the titles any more. Hence, when I want to purchase one (or anyone else's books for that matter) for my kindle I check the publication date to help determine whether I might have read it before. I was reading Unfinished Business and it kept seeming to be so familiar, but I checked and rechecked the pub date which said it was new. Only after checking further into Nora's website did I figure out that was the KINDLE pub date and that it was a reissue of an older novel - which, of course, I had read. I wish the listings on Amazon would state clearly that a book is a reissue, whether from another format or whatever. It would sure make your customers happy. Thanks.


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Perfect Harmony An Anthology Nora Roberts 9780373281374 Books Reviews

This book is terrible. I can't believe it's a Nora Roberts novel. The main character has no personality or any redeeming qualities, she could be replaced by a pretty lamp. Her high school sweetheart still apparently loves her 10 years later, and is given no incentive as to WHY he should love her, other than she's thin, gorgeous, and a loaded world renowned pianist. Every other comment about her is how thin she is. And her mother is a sweetheart and it drives me crazy that Van would treat her mother like crap and act like she's 12, despite knowing how terrible and controlling her father is. SHE KNOWS THIS. and then she comes home trying to reconnect to her mother and acts like some Victorian maid over her mother moving on with her life. THIS STORY IS DUMB. If I had the physical copy and not kindle copy, i would be throwing it against the wall.
i don't even care about the money i spent on this, I want a refund of my time and investment in this dumb story.
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"Unfinished Business", by Nora Roberts, should have been titled "Repeat Business". The book was actually published in 2006. I purchased it for my kindle thinking it was a new release (new cover, as usual).

I am disappointed by the fact it was marketed as a new book. But more disappointing is the book itself. It does not have Roberts trademark witty dialogue, or gut-wrenching plots. In fact, there is little to no plot. Weak characters I want to punch in the throat. The angst of the protagonist (if you could call her that) is so contrived it is painful. I skipped pages and pages of trite dialog and forced action. Small town America... star-crossed teenage lovers meet again after a misunderstanding tore them apart years ago; she's sick and delusional, he's a bad boy turned doctor, blah blah... Oh but wait, there's more.... mother/daughter/father angst.... busy body town folk willing to pay a highly sought after concert pianist a whole $10 for piano a lesson. Really? In 2006? Piano lessons haven't been $10 even in 'small town America' for 20 years.

I love a good Nora Roberts story, and her alter ego J.D. Robb's Death series are always an entertaining read. This book however, fell astoundingly short of a good read, let alone a good Nora Roberts read.

Maybe she called it "Unfinished Business" because that is exactly what I did with it - I didn't finish it.
My advice? Wasn't worth the money or time the first time around. Paying for it twice is like adding salt to the wound.
I usually like titles by Nora Roberts. This story, however, was too improbable. The primary conflicts between the main character (Vanessa) and her mother as well as the main character and the hero (Brady) drug on for far too long. Both conflicts were solved once the characters had a frank 5-minute discussion. Vanessa's hemming and hawing about a miscommunication and then the need to "find herself" did not make for a particularly riveting story (for me). She spent too much time in the novel being delicate and indecisive. After discovering just how controlling her father was, Vanessa had to be convinced she didn't know all the particulars of her mother and father's marriage, and to lighten up on the mother who was bending over backwards to reconnect with her. It didn't take long for me to view the Vanessa character as heartless (not a good attitude to have toward the heroine of the story).

Additionally, I became annoyed with the main character in regards to her health situation. The character doubled over in pain on multiple occasions and refused to admit there was a problem. For me, this just added stupidity to Vanessa's list of foolish traits. To have her get snappy and waspish toward people who were just trying to help her when they could see she was in obvious pain just made her seem kind of diva-ish and martyr-like (again, not sympathetic traits for the supposed heroine of the story).

I don't have too many good things to say about the hero either. In my opinion, Brady was kind of bland. Practically from day one, he came on pretty strong, "We haven't seen each other in 12 years, but I still have the hots for you." He was sort of like Pepe Le Pew. Regardless of how many times Vanessa told him she wasn't interested, and despite the inner contemplation from Brady that he knew he would have to go slow to gain Vanessa's trust, he kept coming after her with all the subtlety of Godzilla stomping on Tokyo.

This is definitely not one of Roberts' better titles.
while I do love a good Nora Roberts book, I have read so many that I can't remember the titles any more. Hence, when I want to purchase one (or anyone else's books for that matter) for my kindle I check the publication date to help determine whether I might have read it before. I was reading Unfinished Business and it kept seeming to be so familiar, but I checked and rechecked the pub date which said it was new. Only after checking further into Nora's website did I figure out that was the KINDLE pub date and that it was a reissue of an older novel - which, of course, I had read. I wish the listings on would state clearly that a book is a reissue, whether from another format or whatever. It would sure make your customers happy. Thanks.