jsmorris's Full Review: Nora Roberts - Angels Fall
I’m not sure how Nora Roberts continues to write at her current pace, but I love the fact that I never run out of new books written by her to enjoy. With that being said, I do think she needed a bit of help with the title of this one… Angels Fall? I’m not even sure what that pertains to in this book! The name of the town was Angels Fist – maybe it was a typo and not caught until the book was already in production?
Reece Gilmore is running from reality. She had everything going for her when armed men broke into the restaurant where she was a chef and killed all of her friends/coworkers. She was the only survivor and after months of recovery, she feels she needs a fresh start. She left Boston because she wants to try to start living life without constantly being afraid.
She seems to be wandering and never stays in one place for any length of time. She takes odd jobs to survive and just exists. That is until her car breaks down at the outskirts of Angel’s Fist, a small town in Wyoming with the Grand Tetons in the background. She ends up taking a job as a cook in Angel Food Café and renting a small apartment over the café.
There are wide assortments of characters in town that are all entertaining. Reece meets the sexy writer, Brody, who happens to wander into the café to eat and thus begins the romantic sparks. On her day off, she hikes up on a local trail and witnesses a murder. When she freaks out with flashbacks and hysteria, Brody happens to be on the trail and ready to render aid. They report it to the local sheriff and an investigation begins but turns up no body and no evidence. The town people begin to wonder if Reece imagined it or if it really happened.
Reece and Brody are determined to find out what really happened that day on the hiking trail but a series of events begins that make Reece appear as if she is slowly losing her grip on reality. Her close friends and Brody are the only ones who believe in her but others are wondering if she has lost her sanity and if she really saw a woman killed.
The character development is excellent as I’ve come to expect from Nora Roberts. She leaves nothing to the imagination with her characters and we learn everything about what makes them tick. She gives the same attention to detail with her main characters as she does to the support characters. The reader can feel Reece’s pain, her confusion, and her fear. You can understand Brody’s standoffishness and smile when he lets a bit of his heart shine through. Linda Gail, Reece’s coworker, made me smile each time she tried to make Lo jealous with her flirting with other guys. Even the cranky owner of the café is a favorite and I chuckled with her gruffness.
The plot was excellent and enough red herrings were thrown out to make the reader really wonder the identity of the killer. This story actually had me fooled longer than most mysteries and I love when that happens! I did figure it out before it was revealed, but the unveiling was tremendous and done in a flair of the dramatic.
To sum up this book in one word: Excellent! It is a very enjoyable book that is easy to read and completely entertaining from the very first page. It is a quick read as you won’t want to put it down. It’s definitely worth the price on the dust jacket!
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