Please not that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Wow. I got nothing. This was pretty awful. I don’t even know what the point of this one was. It was so lackluster. Things happen, serial killers run about Maryland, and then more things happen. The book ends. I honestly wish that Roberts would just write a straight up thriller and ditch the romance. You can see her heart is not in it much anymore. Her latest romantic suspense novels have felt drab.
“Hidden Nature” follows Sloan Cooper. She’s a Natural Resources police officer (and no I am not looking that up) working in Maryland. Sloan and her partner pull over and then the next thing she knows, she’s shot, interrupting a store robbery. Sloan though has a near death experience, comes back to life, and has to figure out what is next for her. She becomes engrossed with a missing woman’s case and starts to work it. The romantic counterpart to Sloan is Nash Littlefield. Nash moves from New York to Maryland and decides to start a handyman business with his brother Theo. FYI, Sloan has a sister named Drea. There is a younger brother named Theo. You know where this is going right? The book follows Sloan as she works the case and deals with the non-existent sparks she has with Nash.
Honestly, this was boring. So much boring. Sloan is barely developed, Nash was not developed at all. Drea and Theo were a waste of time and plot.
The bad guy(s) in this one were just a mess and a half. The reasoning behind the kidnapping and murders made zero sense and that’s that. Also, as someone else pointed out, Roberts spent more time developing the bad guy(s) then the actual heroine and hero.
The plot was barely there. And the flow was awful. We followed the book through all four seasons I think and it felt like I experienced it. The book just drags.
I think it’s been a bit since Roberts has set a book in Maryland, but honestly everything felt very drab. I don’t know. There was no spark in this book at all.
The ending was a shrug.
The book eventually ended. I got to move onto another book.