Just incase anyone rushes out to buy a copy of this, you should be aware that despite a spiffy new cover Divine Evil is an older Nora Roberts title. Looking on Divine Evil in the grand context of Nora Robert's stand alone titles it falls neatly into place as one of her earlier romantic suspenses with some paranormal twists.
Clare Kimball is a leading sculptress who witnessed a terrible event as a child, that haunts her memories and ultimately forces her to leave her New York apartment and return to her sleepy home town. Divine Evil contained stronger themes than normal in a Roberts title: there's rape, murder, sacrifices and satanic worship but there is also a generous dollop of romance for her romantic fanbase.
Divine Evil is similar to other Roberts titles that involve an artistic heroine who is as emotionally fragile as she is gifted and tough, off the top of my head I can think of two literary siblings to both Divine Evil and Clare: Carnal Innocence,and Carolina Moon. The trouble with Divine Evil is that although it has obviously been well-researched in terms of satanism and the rituals it feels oddly unfinished.
Claire upon moving to Emmitsboro begins to relive a nightmare from when she was five years old of sneaking into the back of her father's truck and following him to the woods where she sees strange men dressed in animal masks rape a woman and perform a satanic ritual. However, until nearly midway through the novel, we are never exactly clear if Clare realises that this was more than a dream, and despite a rash of similar satanic themed killings she fails to put together clues that even Scooby Doo wouldn't miss!
For all of that though, the characters of Clare and Cameron (the local bad boy reformed to become sheriff) make a decent couple but again there are elements that feel unfinished in that there aren't any major obstacles for them to overcome for the path of true love to run smoothly. This is a good and suspenseful novel but it does read as rather a let down when you sample the other books of this type that Nora excelled with. The town of Emmitsboro lacks the sleepy, small town camraderie that Nora excels at (Carnal Innocence in particular felt like a real place). It is all too easy to figure out who the major players in the Satanic circle are due to the small number of characters in play, but what could have been gripping and creepy becomes stilted and a little hollow as we are never told or fully explained why so many normal people would become involved with the dark arts
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