But he doubts this man will ever tire of his pursuit, and begins to long for a more settled existence: a job as an English/drama teacher in a mid-size town would fit the bill.

Refusal is not an option: this man is used to getting his own way, and Booth can’t risk the overt threat of injury, even death to those he loves. She appeals to his sense of decency but the Misfit is concerned with a higher form of goodness than charity, and a lower form of evil than murder. An all important point before all else: I make it a point to not judge characters for things they do for love, but had I been rating this taking into account how I felt about Harry's nightwork - this would be a -5 stars, no doubt. New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in a new novel of suspense, greed, love, and survival. I particularly liked how his female voices sounded normal, not affected like some male narrators tend to go.LaPorte was easy to hate, but in later portions of the book, he was less dimensional as a character, as where his henchmen. The romance, well it was typical of the last six Nora's books, there, but barely, slightly more than cozy. Harry protects the two women important to him in his life by abandoning them and spending years on the run.

At the 57% mark it got slightly better because we stayed in one location for a longer period of time, but by that time I just wanted to finish this. He tenido algun problemilla con el libro, hay partes que se me han hecho lentas, y por otro lado, me parecía increíble que jamás hayan pillado a Booth después de más de 20 años robando. When he met Miranda for the first time, Harry’s encounter was so life changing even I could recognize that it was an important moment in his life. From mystics and soothsayers to madmen and mountebanks, prophets people many of my very favourite books and stories.

While this is categorized as romantic suspense, it reads more like contemporary fiction with romantic and suspense elements. Nightwork was a wonderful amazing uplifting story that held my attention from beginning to end; as Harry’s life totally captivated me. We and he can see what has gone wrong in the penury-stalked world of unfettered, early 20th-century capitalism. I lost my mother last year to cancer, and the pain Harry/Booth felt — and his ambition and drive to try to help her, and then honor her — reminds me so much of my mother and my love for her.

The man is a predator more frightening than the alligators that haunt the bayou--and when he strongarms Harry into robbing a Baltimore museum, Harry abandons Miranda--cruelly, with no explanation--and disappears. It was so sneaky how Harry got under my skin and had me admiring his resourcefulness, skills and personal thief code. More often than not, the way that it works is that human beings come to despise prophets, just as you might come to despise someone who has read the story of your life and keeps trying to tell you about it while you’re in the middle of trying to live it. I was a bit sad that there was somewhat less description and feel for the rest of the book's locations.An impromptu celebration on the beach at sunset with champagne becomes a weekly touchpoint to their lives as they learn more about each other and themselves.

Most of the dialogue and circumstances about him I think were supposed to read as thief with heart of gold, but I just kept rolling my eyes. Harry always followed the rules, never hurt anyone, be non- threatening, and steal from the very rich. I wasn’t expecting to like this book as much as I did — NR’s last few have been a disappointment for me, and the last stand-alone book of hers I truly enjoyed and have reread numerous times was 2012’s ‘The Witness. The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend. Knowing LaPorte will leverage any personal connection, Booth abandons Miranda for her own safety—cruelly, with no.

He spends some time furthering his education in Texas before enrolling at a college that took his eye in North Carolina, at UNC, as Booth Harrison. Harry’s mother had cancer, and together with his aunt Mags, they struggled to help his mom, and be able to pay the bills, from doctors, hospital, treatment, as well as mortgage payments. There was a whole lot of justification for his work, how his 'why' (of which there was none, in my opinion, after his mother was gone) made him a 'good' person, and how he was 'different' from the rest, how his work had 'rules' and 'principles' which somehow made him better than people who killed like brutes, but I completely fail to understand or empathize with him. The boldest parts of this bold book see Minnie wandering through time in the company of her garrulous spirit guide – Old Wife. After the grandmother’s death, he muses that “she would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.