I thought that was gratuitous violence and loss of life that went a bit too far, in my opinion. My least favorite part were all the senseless killing by this lunatic. I definitely loved when he adopted the abused puppy and how he talked to it. How committed he is, and how he takes care of his community on the small island, with firmness and sensibility at the same time.

My favorite part of this book is without question Reed Quartermaine, especially when he becomes Chief of Police of Tranquility Island. So when Reed is starting to put the pieces together, his life is altered once again. What they hadn’t counted on, was the mass shooting did not sprout of the minds of the three teenagers who perpetrated the massacre, but was the idea of the younger sister of one of them, and she’s not done killing. We see Reed, who has great qualities like compassion and intelligence, grow into a fine detective. We follow Reed, a college graduate, who saved a young boy during the shooting, decide to become a cop, under the mentorship of police officer and first at the scene, Essie McVee.

Fortunately, with the gentle guidance of her bohemian grandmother, CiCi Lennon, who happens to be renowned artist, Simone finds her path, her equilibrium, little by little. Simone doesn’t want to fit in the mold her parents want her in. We witness, over a decade, how Simone Knox tries to cope with the death of her best friend and the shooting and recovery of her other best friend. I was genuinely engrossed in those first few chapters, when a horrifying mass shooting in a mall in Portland, Maine, takes place and changing the lives of many people in an instant, killing more than eighty, and defining the lives of the main characters, Simone Knox and Reed Quartermaine. The beginning of Shelter in Place is absolutely riveting. And as the survivors slowly heal, find shelter, and rebuild, they will discover that another conspirator is lying in wait-and this time, there might be nowhere safe to hide. Another would close herself off, trying to bury the memory of huddling in a ladies' room, hopelessly clutching her cell phone-until she finally found a way to pour her emotions into her art.īut one person wasn't satisfied with the shockingly high death toll at the DownEast Mall. In the years that followed, one would dedicate himself to a law enforcement career. But for those who lived through it, the effects would last forever. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down.

Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tending to customers. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes Shelter in Place-a powerful tale of heart, heroism.

Shelter in place by nora roberts