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emlickliter's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
5.0
The Last Honest Woman by Nora Roberts – Dylan is a journalist who wants the scoop on Abby’s late husband. Abby wants to spin her painful story her way to protect her sons. Such a sweet second chance at love story! Happy Reading!
adriem's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
3.5
lizabethstucker's review against another edition
4.0
Abigail O'Hurley Rockwell, widow of race care driver Chuck Rockwell, has finally agreed to allow Dylan Crosby to write a biography of her late husband. But there are some secrets she is determined to never reveal.
Abby is very different from the rest of her crazy, loving family. She wants roots, to make a place for herself and her two boys. She is a strong woman, but the guilt and undeserved shame she carries could sabotage future happiness. Dylan's own issues are equally problematic for future happiness. And yet they manage through honest conversations, even if reluctantly entered into. 4 out of 5.
Abby is very different from the rest of her crazy, loving family. She wants roots, to make a place for herself and her two boys. She is a strong woman, but the guilt and undeserved shame she carries could sabotage future happiness. Dylan's own issues are equally problematic for future happiness. And yet they manage through honest conversations, even if reluctantly entered into. 4 out of 5.
esquiredtoread's review against another edition
3.0
This was just okay for me but Nora’s writing style always always pulls me in.
thereadingbel's review against another edition
4.0
Abigail is living on a farm raising her two sons the best way she can and holds on to her pride. She needs the money so she signs a contract with a writer and journalist Dylan to write the story of her ex-husband who is a famous race car driver who is deceased. The writer thinks she is this rich woman and cannot image why she is living on this farm doing manual labor and cleaning houses on the side and mucking stalls.
Dylan Crosby started out as a journalist, but now writes biographies. When he decides to write the biography of the late Chuck Rockwell, race car driver, he has ideas about Chuck's widow and the life she's been leading since his death. Dylan couldn't be more wrong about Abby O'Hurley. Living on a farm, raising horses and her two sons, Abby has been on her own for a long time. When she agrees to consult with Dylan about the book, she knows that she's going to have to unveil some nightmares from her past, but she thinks she can control what Dylan gets out of her.
From the beginning Dylan is drawn to Abby, but can't quite reconcile the reality with the image he was expecting. Falling in love with her kids is easy, falling in love with Abby, even though he knows she's lying about her past, makes Dylan reconsider everything he thought he knew.
Dylan Crosby started out as a journalist, but now writes biographies. When he decides to write the biography of the late Chuck Rockwell, race car driver, he has ideas about Chuck's widow and the life she's been leading since his death. Dylan couldn't be more wrong about Abby O'Hurley. Living on a farm, raising horses and her two sons, Abby has been on her own for a long time. When she agrees to consult with Dylan about the book, she knows that she's going to have to unveil some nightmares from her past, but she thinks she can control what Dylan gets out of her.
From the beginning Dylan is drawn to Abby, but can't quite reconcile the reality with the image he was expecting. Falling in love with her kids is easy, falling in love with Abby, even though he knows she's lying about her past, makes Dylan reconsider everything he thought he knew.
shariq312's review against another edition
3.25
Tonight, you will no longer serve me. That is intimidation and a result of what Roberts persevered inside this book.
I enjoyed reading it but also expected more out of it. The story is about a room of captives, explaining the character that is no longer alive.
And writing is such an admirable job and to carve out facts is where a writer blows his head and questions his patience and vulnerability. As a daily experience, I stand by it.
Dylan would feel above cautious statement while manoeuvring the efforts to dig out Abby’s life that no longer serves her, but is a part of her tantalizing marriage.
When something is shapeless, we try to hide its imperfection from others with the fear of shame and insecurity. Abby would process the same fear while facing Dylan’s question about her husband chuck. This fear is associated with her two children. No mother would want her child to know the venom of their father. That is all she wanted.
Love for Abby was a meaning of sex and forced one. While she begins to feel the warmth in the presence of Dylan. However, Dylan's motive to write a belligerent biography of Chuck would lose its meaning somewhere.
I could not continue the story because it was finished before but also it did not give much meaning to comprehension. Yes, the ending was lost in an abyss.
While finishing a story is not always hitting the last page but also finishing it in the middle of somewhere. It happened in this story.
That could also mean the end, but unsatisfactory.
QOTD: Have you ever finished a book to the last page, but mentally finished the story in the middle?
I enjoyed reading it but also expected more out of it. The story is about a room of captives, explaining the character that is no longer alive.
And writing is such an admirable job and to carve out facts is where a writer blows his head and questions his patience and vulnerability. As a daily experience, I stand by it.
Dylan would feel above cautious statement while manoeuvring the efforts to dig out Abby’s life that no longer serves her, but is a part of her tantalizing marriage.
When something is shapeless, we try to hide its imperfection from others with the fear of shame and insecurity. Abby would process the same fear while facing Dylan’s question about her husband chuck. This fear is associated with her two children. No mother would want her child to know the venom of their father. That is all she wanted.
Love for Abby was a meaning of sex and forced one. While she begins to feel the warmth in the presence of Dylan. However, Dylan's motive to write a belligerent biography of Chuck would lose its meaning somewhere.
I could not continue the story because it was finished before but also it did not give much meaning to comprehension. Yes, the ending was lost in an abyss.
While finishing a story is not always hitting the last page but also finishing it in the middle of somewhere. It happened in this story.
That could also mean the end, but unsatisfactory.
QOTD: Have you ever finished a book to the last page, but mentally finished the story in the middle?
marjolaine_lafreniere's review against another edition
DNF. I disliked the male lead far too much.
mhague's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
4.0
ssejig's review against another edition
3.0
Dylan Crosby is writing a book on Abby O'Hurley's late husband and he knows she's keeping secrets. He's bound and determined to ferret out every last one. Including why the widow of a man who was fabulously wealthy is out mucking stalls and cleaning houses.
Married young, Abby's marriage wasn't perfect but Abby consents to talk to Dylan because she needs money. Her boys are growing up fast and her farm needs work. But she has some secrets she doesn't ever want to see the light of day.
Of course, this is a romance so they'll fall in love but the development of the characters and the story-line are pretty good, especially considering this series started as a 90s Harlequin romance series.
Married young, Abby's marriage wasn't perfect but Abby consents to talk to Dylan because she needs money. Her boys are growing up fast and her farm needs work. But she has some secrets she doesn't ever want to see the light of day.
Of course, this is a romance so they'll fall in love but the development of the characters and the story-line are pretty good, especially considering this series started as a 90s Harlequin romance series.
thenia's review against another edition
4.0
The first book in the series, introducing the O'Hurley family, starting with Abby, the middle of triplets and widow of a famous racer, and Dylan Crosby, a journalist hired to write her late husband's biography.
Abby is doing her best to raise her two sons alone, while trying to make her horse breeding farm stable. She's far from what Dylan expected and he insists on viewing her with his expectations in mind for a long time, led by the cynicism of past experiences.
He does not think very highly of her and can tell that she's lying, while she is determined to keep her secrets her own, but the sparks between them fly from the beginning.
An engaging story with its ups and downs, and a few entertaining glimpses into the original O'Hurley family. Maddy, the youngest triplet's story comes next in [b:Dance to the Piper|783502|Dance to the Piper (O'Hurleys #2)|Nora Roberts|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388243195s/783502.jpg|40846852].
Abby is doing her best to raise her two sons alone, while trying to make her horse breeding farm stable. She's far from what Dylan expected and he insists on viewing her with his expectations in mind for a long time, led by the cynicism of past experiences.
He does not think very highly of her and can tell that she's lying, while she is determined to keep her secrets her own, but the sparks between them fly from the beginning.
An engaging story with its ups and downs, and a few entertaining glimpses into the original O'Hurley family. Maddy, the youngest triplet's story comes next in [b:Dance to the Piper|783502|Dance to the Piper (O'Hurleys #2)|Nora Roberts|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388243195s/783502.jpg|40846852].