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Title: Same old, same old
Review: How can you tell any of Nora Roberts' single title hardcovers apart? They all have the same stock characters and plots, she only changes the setting: The trampy girl with a heart of gold, the artistic heroine with a disturbing murder in her past, the quirky townsfolk, the bitter martiarch, etc. The story is predictable, as are the romances. Just once I'd like to see Roberts make the hero the killer---but then she wouldn't sell nearly as many books. Disappointing and uninvolving, it's simply a retread of any of her earlier books.
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