Episode 28 – Black Hills
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Cougartown! Kait, Renata, and their guest Kathryn read Black Hills by Nora Roberts. Nora Roberts has written over 200 books, and this one is about a murder mystery on a big cat sanctuary. It’s a sexy page-turner with something for everyone, including Duarte. We hope you have enjoyed Worst Bestsellers, because we loved this book so much that from this point forward we’re changing focus to become a Nora Roberts Fan Club.
Readers advisory: Here.
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Candy pairing: Kait says mini Reese’s peanut butter cups, Kathryn says black panther Endangered Species Chocolate, Renata says Girl Scout cookies.
Coming up next: Grey by E.L. James
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about murderous spirit animals so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.4 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.9 | And for this episode, we read Black Hills by Nora Roberts. |
| 0:22.5 | Joining us to discuss this Cougar-approved murder mystery love story is librarian, writer, and cat fancier Catherine. |
| 0:30.6 | Hi, Catherine. |
| 0:31.7 | Hi. |
| 0:32.8 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:34.1 | We're excited to have your Nora Roberts and feline expertise. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, I'll do my best. |
| 0:41.3 | Right off the bat, we should probably warn you, Renata and I really liked this book. |
| 0:48.3 | Oh my god, yeah. I want to read more. Is there a sequel? |
| 0:52.3 | I would recommend that you read this book. |
| 0:56.7 | There are many, not a sequel to this book, but there are many, many others because |
| 1:01.1 | Nora Robert has written like 150 books. |
| 1:05.1 | I know. She has like four full shelves at my library. |
| 1:08.6 | Mm-hmm. She is prolific. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, I was going into it, kind of expecting, like, oh, maybe it'll be okay, like, kind of |
| 1:17.5 | the way that I feel when we read other romance novels. |
| 1:21.2 | But this was, this book was exactly my, like, perfect storytelling ratio. It was like 60% relationships, 20% backstory and 20% |
| 1:36.2 | plot. And it was amazing. Like that is exactly what I want it. Like lots of snappy dialogue and |
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