Legacy
by Nora Roberts
Genre: Family Thriller
For those who follow my blog, the genre might sound strange as there is no such genre but Nora Roberts seemed to have created a new one with this book. It is basically a family saga and a thriller rolled into one.
Adrian Rizzo is 7 years old when her father tries to kill her. She is protected by her mother Lina Rizzo, a fitness celebrity who saves her only daughter and in the process Adrian's father dies. However Lina manages to take the heat of the press away from her daughter by dropping her off at her grandparent's home for the summer vacation.
When Adrian turns 17, she decides to start her own business and right then, she begins to get scary poems warning her she would be killed. Though she accepts it as being a part of celebrity life, she has other things to deal with like most people do - family, friends, school, work, love and loss. But the letters keep coming and she hires a PI. Is she dealing with just a celebrity stalker or is this something more?
The book is fantastically paced, crisp and to the point. Roberts blew my mind by changing the age of the protagonist by a decade in just a single chapter and it works so well that the reader would hardly notice it. That to me was amazing. Another thing about this book is that you would want to get out and exercise even though it is a thriller.
Legacy is a very delicious book and if you are a wanna be author, you can learn the tricks of writing a bestseller while feeling very satisfied reading a darn good story.
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