Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
The Reef
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Nora Roberts
Class/Genre: Mystery Romantic Suspense
Putnam, Oct 1998, $23.95, 448 pp.
Near Australia, James Lassiter and Silas VanDyke are salvaging the remains of the Sea Star, a ship that sunk off of the Great barrier Reef two hundred years ago. Though not part of this job, the men dispute who can claim Angelique's Curse, a legendary jeweled amulet that James plans to locate on his next salvage job in the West Indies. Instead, while his teenage son Matthew waits on the ship, Silas kills James beneath the ocean.
Eight years later, Tate Beaumont, a marine biology student, meets Matthew. Both share a love of the ocean and have ambitions to find Angelique's Curse. Reluctantly, they agree to team up and locate the missing gem. While diving beneath the ocean, the pair falls in love with one another. However, neither one realizes the truth behind his father's death and the danger that still lurks from Silas who still believes the amulet belongs to him.
In one word, this novel can be summed up best: Nora. Though other writers might want to be like Nora, her newest novel, THE REEF, takes readers to depths rarely seen in a contemporary romantic suspense. Fans of the great author will find this novel to be her usual 62-home run affair and again prove that the Babe Ruth of romance deserved being the first writer elected to the Romance Writers of America's Hall of Fame.
Harriet Klausner
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