Which Liz knows, because she’s researched the place. Julie picks her up with a cab, and they are on their way to a happening club owned by Russian mobsters. Julie helps Liz buy clothes and makeup and Liz will make them the fake IDs. They get to talking about going to clubs, but Liz doesn’t have ID. They went to school together, and wouldn’t it be Liz’s luck Julie just broke up with her boyfriend. She meets up with Julie Masters by chance at the mall. She wants all the things her mother won’t allow her to have, a normal childhood. She wants to watch the other girls interact with each other, talk about boys. Elizabeth hops in her mother’s car and heads to the mall to actually find herself. Her mom walks out (her usual silent treatment) and goes on her merry way. Elizabeth doesn’t want to go, she was promised time off and her mother wants to hear none of it. They have a fight, her mother is off to a convention and she expects Elizabeth to take pre-med classes with her mother’s colleague. To her mom, Liz is a science project, someone she can mold and control. Her mother has been dictating her life up until this point – where she goes to school, what she wears, who she sees outside of school, what she eats. That’s where the lines blur, yet their inner core of strength shines through, which puts them both in my top spot for female characters. IQ off the charts, and even though Lisbeth has to deal with her hardships, Elizabeth has her crosses to bear as well. “ The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.”įor me, Elizabeth Fitch is along the lines of Lisbeth Salander ( TGWTDT). She still lingers in the back of my mind and she will always hold a special place in my reader heart. Characterization was off the charts and I fell in love with Elizabeth. Then the floodgates open and I have a million texts, “What should I read next?” And a romance reader is born. I mean, the die-hard no way I am not reading “that kind of book” person. The Witness is the book with which I woo non-romance readers.

To be completely honest, I have never been disappointed with any book I have read by her. She had me with Carnal Innocenceback in 2009. Romantic Suspense published by Berkley 17 Apr 12 Sammy’s review of The Witness by Nora Roberts

The witness book by nora roberts