I read NORTHERN LIGHTS for the February 2015 "Nora Roberts" theme in my online book club, The Reading Cove.
It started out pretty well and I liked the Nate character, his background and the circumstances surrounding his move to Lunacy, Alaska. We get to experience the setting with him, which basically becomes a character in and of itself. Loved the description of the Northern Lights!
However, the book was overly long, the plot wore pretty thin and I lost interest after the halfway mark. The cleverness of Lunacy residents being called Lunatics, the town paper, etc. and the heroine, Meg, who really felt overdone with her one-liners and been-there-done-that attitude. It was all cute the first 200 pages, but I felt it went on too long and even the murder mystery plot line got old for me.
Overall, I give Northern Lights a C+, but I'd still recommend it for the experience of its setting.
It started out pretty well and I liked the Nate character, his background and the circumstances surrounding his move to Lunacy, Alaska. We get to experience the setting with him, which basically becomes a character in and of itself. Loved the description of the Northern Lights!
However, the book was overly long, the plot wore pretty thin and I lost interest after the halfway mark. The cleverness of Lunacy residents being called Lunatics, the town paper, etc. and the heroine, Meg, who really felt overdone with her one-liners and been-there-done-that attitude. It was all cute the first 200 pages, but I felt it went on too long and even the murder mystery plot line got old for me.
Overall, I give Northern Lights a C+, but I'd still recommend it for the experience of its setting.
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