Wanted a lot more from this one than what was delivered! The plot was quite boring and unlikeable - dragging on quite a lot without much anything actually happening. There is a LOT of detail, but the detail focuses on the mundane - pointless things about her workout videos or comic strip designs rather than the things that actually could have helped to move the storyline along. Throughout - there was a need for more drama and intensity, but it just fell really flat. The narrator (January LaVoy) was fine - but there wasn't enough emotion or surprise in her voice which at points made the story presented a little bit too robotic-like. From the description, I expected a hard-hitting thriller - but instead, was delivered a bit of a weird, dull, detailed romance story.

Legacy By: Nora Roberts Narrated by: January LaVoy was a lovely book. Nora has a way of writing book that just brings you into her story she has written and especially with wonderful characters. I loved this book from the beginning till the end, like all of her books I have read by Nora. She is the Queen of family saga's.

Big Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

Legacy Nora Roberts
This book isn't grabbing my attention at the moment, tried audio and ebook so putting it aside for now. May try it again later.

I really love this authors writing style, she is quite new to me after discovering her a couple of years ago, so I'm trying to read as much of her as I can.

This one didn't disappoint.

A great family saga, with all of the drama that you need!

I don't think this one is for me...thanks so much for the chance to listen though!

I felt it was way longer than it probably needed to be. I was expecting the thriller aspect of it to be more prominent but, instead, there was A LOT of background/everyday story and a lot of it was just too boring and a bit too perfect (apart from the murders, of course, especially the awfully detailed school shooting! That hit hard!). It's nice to have some back story, learn about the characters, their personalities, etc but there was just too much of it when you read a blurb that's selling a book about a stalker.

A romance suspense story that tells the tale of Adrian Rizzo and how she grows up from being a child and being part of a traumatic event featuring her father.
Adrian grows up and establishes herself as a successful business woman; however her life is haunted by threatening poems she keeps receiving.
This book has a steady pace and well developed characters.
It was very well narrated,
Recommended to fans of this genre.
Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley in allowing me to listen to in return for a review.

I really wanted to love this book, and was totally gripped by the opening, but by about 60% through, I just wasn't invested in the characters or the story anymore. The narrator was engaging, but the plotting itself seemed rather drawn out - I wanted to know more about the intrigue, but it took very much a back seat!

This is the first book I've read/listened to by Nora Roberts. My mum us a fan of her work so I was intrigued to give this book a go.

This story is very in depth with events from the past and present taking to the stage throughout. The main character Adrienne is likable and determined to succeed. She becomes a fitness guru like her mother and strives to educate people about the importance of fitness and flexibility. At the the fitness element on the story was a little too much for me but that's the character.

I found all the characters well fleshed out and relatable. There's so many parts to this story. The back story of Adrienne's father who attacks her and her mother.

The loving grandparents, her ever busy and distant mother, her love interest and the poet- a stalker with revenge in mind!

Definitely a fantastic book. I'll be reading more from Nora Roberts. Thank you to #netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this book.

Adrian Rizzo's father was in a fit of rage and he nearly killed her. Only seven at the time, she was so excited to meet him. Well, she did meet him, but it nearly cost her life. Fortunately, her mother stepped in. Adrian then spent that summer in Maryland with her grandparents, and she had a wonderful time. Her mother Lina traveled all over the world, growing her fitness brand.

The apple did not fall far from the tree, because ten years later, Adrian developed her own line of products in the world of fitness. Life has it's challenges for Adrian, however, as she is soon frightened by a series of threatening texts. Is it because she has become a celebrity in the world of fitness, or could it be something else entirely? Meanwhile, Adrian's grandmother passes away and Adrian returns to Maryaland, and she runs into Raylan, a man a few years older than her and someone she had a crush on when she visited that long-ago summer.

Does Adrian's past or her present success in her field have anything to do with the threats she is getting? Furthermore, Raylan has his own drama. They are kindred spirits and the story shifts to an engaging romantic suspense, with all the elements.

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

This was a easy listen though I did find it extremely long winded and dragged out in parts which ruined it a bit for me. I felt it could’ve been at least half the length and tended to concentrate too much on the personal lives of the characters instead of an actual storyline

The narrator was excellent and managed to keep the same voices for each character which a lot of narrators tend to do

Lost count of the people I had in my sights as the culprit whilst listening to this!
Flowed well, gutted that the mum (Lena)was a bit flighty, hoped she’d step up, but I guess that’s what makes Adrienne the strong woman she becomes.
A tale of family ties, betrayal and secrets! Some parts a little far fetched but it’s the type of story you can get lost in for hours .

I really enjoyed this audio book even if it wasn't the type psychological thriller I would normally read or listen to
This was an easy listening book that builds up to a thriller

The story is about the life of Adrian Rizzo as she is growing up , her relationship with her successful mother and her grandparents Dom and Sophia Rizzo who have been a mainstay in her life and who run a very successful Italian restaurant in Traveller's Creek, Maryland.

Adrian's mother is a successful fitness guru with a business . When Adrian becomes successful in her own right with her own fitness business, she receives a death threat poem in the post, she is shocked but puts it down to someone's jealousy of her success and tries to forget about it.
These poems continue to arrive yearly as Adrian's business becomes more and more successful and a word with her mum puts her at ease as its pretty common for successful people and her mum has had similar over the years from people who are just jealous of success and advises Adrian what to do
10 years down the line the poems are becoming more frequent and more threatening her mum hires a private detective to find out who is doing this to her daughter .
Once the detective gets a break in the case the plot starts to thicken and Adrian is in danger and the book ramps up into the thriller it promised to be

Thank you to Net Galley & Hatchett audio for the opportunity to listen to this book

Nora Roberts doesn’t disappoint with this book. It has a great layered storyline line with characters that I really liked so I felt engaged with them and was rooting for them.
The narrator had a lovely tone to her voice, and did a great job in altering her voice to distinguish between the different characters.
I really enjoyed this audio book and I would definitely recommend it.
My thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this book in return for an honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for the audio ARC!
I really enjoyed listening to Nora Robert’s Legacy- possibly even more so than had I read it. While it was a long story I loved how closely the characters were described and developed. True Robert’s style the book lead to a climatic finish- I do enjoy the romance/thriller mix.

With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an audio arc of this book, all opinions expressed here are my own.

Legacy by Nora Roberts is the first book I have read by this author. Why? I really don’t know! I thoroughly enjoyed my time spent with this book and the characters. I feel it is much more a family saga than a thriller though. I liken it to books I read from Lesley Pearse and Susan Lewis.

January LaVoy as always is a fabulous narrator. She can do no wrong. She brought the story to life and I definitely feel I enjoyed it more because of her narration.

Well written and engaging, a solid four star read for me. Legacy by Nora Roberts is available now.

Nora Roberts always give you a book that will keep you gripped. A well written book with great characters. Loved the narration and the story had me to the end.
Many thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the ARC and the opportunity to listen

Thank you to NetGalley, Nora Roberta and Hachette Audio for an ARC in return for an honest review.

Wow - what a book.

This is a large book - the audio version is approximately 14 hours. Although it was long, it was thoroughly enjoyable. I felt really attached to some of the characters and was completely invested in their lives.

I feel reading this book would have made it easier to follow at the beginning when you’re figuring out ‘who is who’.

I adore the main character Adrian and rooted for her throughout.

I can’t wait to read more by Nora. I felt completely and utterly gripped! This is a great psychological thriller.

EXCERPT: The first time Adrian Rizzo met her father, he tried to kill her.

ABOUT 'LEGACY': Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her—before her mother, Lina, stepped in.

Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents’ house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend—and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend’s ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand and turning it into a billion-dollar business. There was no point in dwelling on the past.

A decade later, Adrian has created her own line of yoga and workout videos, following in Lina’s footsteps but intent on maintaining creative control. And she’s just as cool-headed and ambitious as her mother. They aren’t close, but they’re cordial—as long as neither crosses the other.

But while Lina dismisses the death threats that Adrian starts getting as a routine part of her daughter’s growing celebrity, Adrian can’t help but find the vicious rhymes unsettling. Year after year, they keep arriving—the postmarks changing, but the menacing tone the same. They continue after she returns to Maryland and becomes reacquainted with Raylan, her childhood crush, all grown up and as gorgeously green-eyed as ever. Sometimes it even seems like the terrifying messages are indeed routine, like nothing will come of them. Until the murders start, and the escalation begins…

MY THOUGHTS: What an attention grabbing opening line! - right?

It certainly grabbed my attention and made me sit up and take notice. I was excited to read this. But, by a third of the way through I was wondering if Nora Roberts was ever going to get to the point. I felt like I had been reading forever, and the story was really going nowhere v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. I honestly debated abandoning this. I was bored. But at the exhortations of various other readers, I kept going. By the 50% point, I was getting into the rhythm, but still wasn't completely enamoured. By 75%, I was enjoying it, and continued to do so right to the end. But I will stick with my original comment, why did the author take so long to get to the point? Yes, I like to know the background of the characters, and I like to have some build-up to the story, but this was taking it to the extreme. This novel really is too damned long!

I have a few more minor niggles like the stereotyped characters, and the plot predictability, but there was an indefinable something in the second half of Legacy, missing from the first, that kept me reading to the end. I mostly liked the characters. I could understand why Adrian was so disciplined and liked to have control. I liked the way Raylan loosened her up. I liked her friends and family, though I reserve judgement on her mother Lina. I particularly liked her grandfather. And I loved her house. Hell, I covet her house! Relationships are the core of Legacy. It is very light on suspense and thrills.

January Lavoy, narrator, does an amazing job with the characters voices. She is very talented and a pleasure to listen to.

Overall, only a satisfactory read for me. If it'd had all the extraneous stuff cut from it to make it a tighter read, it would have rated higher.

⭐⭐⭐.4

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THE AUTHOR: Nora Roberts also writes the 'In Death' series under the name J.D. Robb.

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I have read a lot of Nora Roberts. There was a phase where I just wanted to read her books because I felt a sort of certainty that I might be spending my time well. This is the only thing that has probably influenced this review of an ARC I received thanks to NetGalley and the publishers.
It has been a while since I have been in that frame of mind where I picked up an 'easy read', this was available on audio, and now with the improved weather, I have been going out more and consequently listening to audiobooks again. This got bumped up my listening list, and I enjoyed the breezy narration. I freely admit that I would not have rated it four stars this easily if I had read this book(Only because I have read many of the author's other works). The narrator brought the author's words to life and let me live the life of the protagonist, Adrian Rizzo, from when she was but a child all the way through to her happily-ever-after (that is not a spoiler, as I have often said with this genre).
We have a lovable found family(including dogs), a slightly complicated actual family with shades of colours within them and all of this with a personal fitness background. This time around, the saga follows the characters live and therefore teach a healthy way of life. It had interesting segues because of this, but overall the entire narrative felt compelling.
The next book by the author I am picking up (already queued) is completely different, so my fingers are crossed for equally good results with that one as well.

My thanks to Netgalley for my audio version of Legacy. This is quite a long book and I appreciated the audio version as I could listen as I took my daily walk. The narrator did a really good job, giving recognisable voices to all the characters, the only one that jarred a little was the young girl, Mo's. Of course this is an American book so I did find myself automatically correcting words (sometimes out loud!) that have been cannibalised by them :-) I mean, ' 'erbs' for goodness sake, but other than that small annoyance it was all good.

Legacy was, to me, two stories for the price of one; one being a beautiful community/family drama, and the other, which sometimes got in the way, a less wholesome story of death threats and malevolence. I think the first could have stood up alone without the latter. Nora Roberts furnishes so much intimate detail with her characters that they can they seem to become friends you know and love. Embarrassingly this did sometimes cause me to shed more than a few tears in public when characters died, or they were surprisingly kind!

The less palateable story had an obvious conclusion but as it grew it was really interesting to see the meat put on the bone so to speak in a more than satisfactory manner.

I loved the book and feel sad now that I have finished, I would like to know more about these families and the directions their lives take.