When the two can stay focused on the bad guys instead of dewey-doe-eyed lovey-dovies, it’s not a bad story. A cop killing drug dealer is the target of the DA, and for personal reasons, the target of Gage. The story line is pretty basic, but good. Might consider changing the narrator to Susan Erickson for the audiobook and ta-da … new book in the In Death series. Roberts/Robb should simply adjust character names and re-work a bit to create Night Shadow - In Death. Coffee references, Gage being filthy rich … even has a secret high-tech room in his mansion, Deborah being in law enforcement … all uncomfortably similar. For anyone familiar with the In Death series by Nora Roberts/J.D.Robb, the Deborah/Gage dynamic is just too similar to that of Eve/Roark. Nora has a wonderful way of throwing conventional writing dictums out the window :-).
Typical of Nora Roberts, 70% of the novel is sickly sentimental foo-foo, 30% mystery, and point of view is an author whim. Fast-forwarded a lot through several required, and lengthy, sex scenes to get back to the mystery. The romance aspect of Night Shadow is so mawkish your eyes will roll back to bounce on your tailbone. Deborah is written to be the strong female lead, but succumbs to the sexual innuendo of these two characters like a high-hormone-laden teenaged girl. Before the end of the first chapter you’ll have no trouble guessing Nemesis = Gage, both of them give Deborah weak knees.
Deborah = Lead female character = Assistant District Attorney (the damsel in distress), career obsessed, beautiful, swoons to the charms of both. He wears all black, including a mask (Spoooooky). Nemesis = Charming superman-vigilante, with a bizarre paranormal ability, who always seems to be in the Night Shadow ready to rescue a damsel is distress. Gage = Lead male character = Charming, tall and handsome, ridiculously rich, Type A chauvinist.
Audiobook just over seven hours long, narrated by Kate Rudd.
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