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| Tribute | 
enlarge | Author: Nora Roberts Publisher: Putnam Adult Category: Book
List Price: $26.95 Buy New: $5.35 You Save: $21.60 (80%)
New (73) Used (75) Collectible (5) from $4.75
Avg. Customer Rating: 82 reviews Sales Rank: 1543
Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 464 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0399154914 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780399154911 ASIN: 0399154914
Publication Date: July 8, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! NEW Book! May have remainder mark. Most orders ship within 1 BUSINESS DAY with ORDER CONFIRMATION.
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Nora's worst ever July 12, 2008 10 out of 27 found this review helpful
I have read every Nora Roberts ever written and I think she really was asleep writing this one. She had more info on the details of rehabbing a home rather than dealing with the main relationships. And it was so Agatha Christie in that you would never think of the people responsible for the awful deeds based on the development of the characters. It was also too much of her past books but not as good as the ones before.
Boring, boring, boring.... July 28, 2008 8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Endless pages about picking paint colors, faucets and tile. Way, way too many pages about rehabbing the house.
Cilla is indecisive and self-centered. She wants to put her Hollywood past behind her, but spends page after page overthinking it and talks endlessly (and I do mean endlessly) about her past, mother and grandmother. Nearly every conversation quickly turns to talking about her own situation. No wonder she never had any friends.
Ford and Spock are the only saving grace in this book; unfortunately not enough to raise it above one star.
Delightful! July 11, 2008 7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Delightful is the only way I know to describe this book, and the delight is in the two main characters. In a role reversal, the hero is the laid-back, more passive character and the heroine is the driving force. This is not to imply that he's a wimp and she's a harridan but more that he's not the typical over-protective "I can do anything" man and she's not the "oh, please, save me" woman. The plot is not particularly original, but the male/female relationship saves the day. I loved it!
Love Roberts, Liked the Book July 11, 2008 7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love Nora Roberts and have been reading her books for probably a dozen years. Although she didn't cover any new ground in this book, that's fine with me because I enjoyed the characters of Cilla and Ford. I always love the focus on family relationships in Roberts' books, and she definitely created a character with Spock!
My only dislike of the story was how hurried it was in the end - the sweet relationship between Cilla and Ford came to a screeching halt and all of a sudden there was a twist and an unexpected bad guy...and this didn't ring true to me or to the story line.
However (and this could just be me), I enjoyed the book overall - it was just the last 30 or so pages that disappointed me.
She's lost it... July 31, 2008 7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've always been first in line to buy whatever Nora writes. But I've stopped buying the JD Robb books because they are all the same and there is absolutely no character development. I'll definitely never waste the money for a Hardcover now.
Tribute is beyond boring. Is it even ethical to write a review of a book that I just absolutely could not finish? Although I guess that says it all. These were the most uninteresting characters. After 199 pages (yep, I got that far, but it took 2 weeks) I just seriously did not care a whit what happpened to any of them. In addition to boring characters, this book had a weak storyline; and let's face it-easily discernible. It read so much like just about everything else she's ever written, complete with talking to the ghost of a dead relative. Keep your money, people.
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