People get worked up over the Iditarod, and they've got their favorites." "I got into it some with Skinny Jim over the Iditarod. "How about the two of you? Have you had a problem with anyone lately? An argument?" He settled down, after he got out of the puppy stage, he settled down." But that was years ago, and Tim got kind of a kick out of it because the damn boots were almost bigger than Yukon. He used to bark if a leaf stirred.Īnd he got out once and chewed up Tim Tripp's boots from off his back stoop. "Well, maybe a few times when he was a puppy. I liked reading about the Northern Lights and how much the town changes when it becomes summer and the sun doesn't quite set for months on end."No." Joe sighed. Roberts must have done some research into things such as how cars/engines are kept heated. The setting of Lunacy, Alaska fascinated me. I was slightly bored towards the end until things picked up and the murderer was revealed. The flow wasn't consistent throughout and I can't lie and say that every part of the book sang to me. It's over 600 pages so it took me a bit more than a day to finish. The writing was good, though be warned this book is very long. Just reading about the hi-jinks in Lunacy was enough for me. I honestly even questioned whether a murder needed to happen in this one. Roberts really did take her time making everyone come alive in this one. We have the mayor (Hop), the journalists, Meg's mother, the professor, the cook at the lodge, the brothers who keep getting into trouble, Nate's deputies, etc. The secondary characters in this one are great too. I do think that Nate and Meg have great romantic chemistry though. I am glad though that Roberts doesn't have Meg changing herself to suit Nate. Meg shows Nate repeatedly she can take care of herself, but he ignores it. Nate started to bug me since Roberts had him doing the alpha male thing (romance novel trope) where he is the big bad man who will protect his woman. And I liked that she was upfront about wanting sex with Nate and nothing else. Probably because she's honest to a fault. Past and present come together though when a dead body is discovered in a cave that leaves Nate to figure out who in Lunacy is a murderer. She has a somewhat disastrous relationship with her mother Charlene, but has a great stand in father who has been there for her since her real father left her and her mother when was she was a teen. She finds herself intrigued by the chief of police since she sees something sad in his eyes that she wants to see disappear. Meg Galloway is a bush pilot who loves her life in Lunacy. Nate slowly starts coming back to life while in Lunacy. Nate is trying to get past watching his former partner die and agrees to become chief of police in Lunacy. "Northern Lights" follows former Baltimore police officer Nate Burke to Lunacy, Alaska. Nate wasn't the most interesting character to me, Meg was, I wish that we had spent more time in her head than Nate's honestly. Also it took a while for things to get going. The only reason why I gave it 4 stars is that the flow of the book was up and down in a few places. Roberts adds in tons of details about Alaska and the population of Lunacy, Alaska that makes this book really come alive. It's a slow burn romance novel taking place in Alaska. I am happy to say I didn't remember who was the bad guy in this one so I went in legitimately surprised. I haven't read this one in forever, but was glad to see it when I was at Powell's book store. This is an oldie but goodie if you are a Nora Robert's old school fan.
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