Carnal Innocence

Author:

Nora Roberts

Published:

Bantam Books, January 1992; 499 pages

Subgenre:

Contemporary romance

Setting:

United States -- Innocence MS, 1990s

Main characters:

Tucker Longstreet and Caroline Waverly

Sexual explicitness:

Fairly explicit

Keywords:

Intrigue, humor ; concert violinsists, family responsibility, illegitimate children, serial murders, small towns

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Reader comments:

I love all of Nora Roberts books. I have my dad and all of his poker buddies reading her. This book was great I did not figure out who the killer was until the page before you told. It was great. (C.H., 3-11-98) The book was well written, just as I've come to expect from Nora Roberts, however the main characters are not particularly appealing people, nor does the story go out of its way to present them in an interesting manner. The secondary characters were much richer and more interesting. If the book was sold as straight fiction I would probably rate it higher, but I wanted romance, a singularly lacking concept in this story. (C.H., 3-2-98) This book kept me reading, and I found the hero particularly attractive. The cast of supporting characters included some rather colorful small-town denizens, and the setting itself struck me as effectively (if not always accurately) drawn. Having now read quite a bit of Roberts's backlist, I must say that while Roberts seems to excel in romantic suspense, I don't understand her penchant for perverted serial killers of (mostly) women, a subject that seems the very antithesis of romance. At least in this book I had to face only one overly graphic description of a murder; unlike her latest novel, SANCTUARY, which IMO went way, way overboard in terms of explicit violence. (E.P., 4-14-97)

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