The MacGregor series by Nora Roberts are made up of 11 books and are each unique yet tangled to each other in different ways and family being the ultimate tie.
Playing the Odds
Tempting Fate
All the possibilities
One Man's Art
For now, forever
Rebellion
In from the cold
The MacGregor brides
Winning hand
The MacGregor grooms
Perfect neighbour
Now I have to admit that when I first read the synopsis for these books i was a little confused and to be honest not really wanting to read them. I danced around choosing the series despite loving all of her other ones.
Due to my need to read as any Nora books as i can i decided i had to read them and i happy to announce i was totally wrong and i absolutely love the books.
So far i have read the first three and am blogging about them first as i am not sure i can read all 11 and then blog. I wanted to remember everything and write about them when i have them fresh and real in my mind.
The books are about a fabulous family that you dont quite meet and understand until a little ways through the first book. The loveable Daniel MacGregor is a wonderful character and central to all of the books and he is a pleasure to read.
Playing the Odds
Serena MacGregor is the first member of the family who gets the intense and wonderfully interferring personality of Daniel MacGregor.
Serena is a very clever and beautiful woman, she has a wonderful family who she loves and a job working as a black jack dealer on a cruise liner. She is good at her job and the customers love her.
She is a beautiful woman and i really enjoyed getting to know her and form a picyure of her in my mind. Blonde and petite with violet eyes, she meets her match in the gorgeous and handsome gambler Justin.
He is everything she isnt looking for and yet she uncontrolably attracted. The sparring between the two is brilliant to read and very enjoyable. The immdiate passion and wanting in the two is lovely and as you get their stories you fall in love with them individually and asa couple.
Daniel is her father and a meddling one at that, he believes he knows whats best for them and takes every opportunity in becoming involved!
He sets up Justin to take the cruise and knowing his daughter and justins personalities he knew they would meet, hoped they would be more than just friends.
Even after Serena and Justin found out that he had set the whole thing up they still couldnt saty mad at him. It was so funny and i just fell in love with Daniel, he is a fiery scotsman who i can totally relate to being half scottish! He is a powerful and exciting character to read. Serena has his fiery scottish temperment and every time she blows Justin falls a little bit more!
After finally coming to Justin in Atlantic city to run a casino hotel with him she eventually gives in and admits she loves him and him her. But there is no happy ending just yet. As you feel the whole thing is coming to an end Nora adds in the little twist of Serena being Kidnapped by someone from Justins past and you finally see the real and emotional love that is oozing from Justin. My heart was aching for him and i found myself totally in depth with the family like i was one of them!
Meeting the brothers Caine and Alan and their mother Anna in this first book and seeing a family with a lot of love and passion its easy to want to read the rest of the books.
Totally and utterly in love with the series so far but that could change as the stories unfold!
Tempting Fate
Caine MacGregor is a highly sucessful lawyer and one that every person knows of and in the court room is afraid of and every woman knows of in the bedroom.
He has a reputation for being smooth with the women and never has had any trouble getting one or dealing with them.
In walks Diana the beautiful and mysterious younger sister of Justin, she comes to visit her brother and meets Caine and immediately there is a spark and powerful and lusty spark. Caine is a little un-nerved by it and Diana is a little cofused and totally attracted.
Finding out most of her life is a lie and not really having a true family that loved her she decides to start all over again.
There is a great deal of respect for this character and i believe that she has grown up to believe that she is something she really isnt. Caine touches on her passion and her ability to love which is so lovely to read. The eternal ladies man falls in love and helps her build herself back up.
I like to think his family and the love he has for them makes his connection to Diana and wanting to help and protect her that much more powerful.
Of course there is resistance from her and arguments and passionate kisses ensue but it all comes good in the end! Daniels meddling in his children's life is amusing and he doesnt disappoint in this book either, he brings Diana's feelings for Caine to the surface and deal with it. The emotional outbursts i think are wonderful and you feel really angry or upset right along with them.
When they are scared you feel it and when they are passionate you also feel it. I couldnt put these books down and read them in 2 days flat! My husband wasnt very happy with being neglected!
I went straight onto the third installment and the final of the three siblings eager to get the last siblings story.
All the possibilities
Alan MacGregor is a politician, senator to be precise and a damn good one at that. Well liked and known and a shoe in for the presdental election in a decade.
His life of society parties and living amongst other politicians can be a little tiring however its the life he chose.
Shelby Campbell is a beautiful half Scottish potter who is living her life exactly how she chooses to and not afraid to do it. She is accustomed to the society life as her father was a senator who was assasinated on the run up to presidental elections when she was 6 years old.
Her mother still runs in those circles and she still has friends in high places.
Alan and Shelby are completely different in so many ways and that is what makes this my favourite book out of these three. I was initially not very feeling about Alan, in the other books i didnt really get a fell for him and found i didnt really mind. However needing to finish the series i went on to read it and enjoyed it very much.
Alan's character is tidy and logical and sensible but love never is so you get to see a rougher side to him. The more sensual and passionate side that sweeps Shelby off her feet. She doesnt want a man like Alan and haas vowed never to fall in love with someone in his job.
Shelby's character is quirky and fun and very aware of herself, she is a joy to read and i thought she would be the more dominant in the relationship but Alan just swoops in and gives her everything she wanted. The amazingly passionate sex and kisses that left her weak in the knees and he just got her without really getting to know her.
The relationship is reallt powerful and i think its the most passionate out of the three, the urgency and need for each other is really well dialogued in this book and i felt i was in that relationship. Being a Campbell her clan and the MacGregors are enemies throughout history and so when Daniel wants to meet her she is eager to match him insult for insult.
She really stands up for herself and she stands her ground with him to which he adores and she seems to slot into the family very easily.
Reading all of the family together, Daniel and Anna so clearly perfect and in love, Serena heavily pregnant and Justin, Caine and Diana, Alan and Shelby. At last Daniel see his children happy and in love, grand children being born and his heritage becoming a reality.
I felt like a member of the family and was connected to them beyond belief, it was truely a lovely read and i am eager to continue into the next books.
One Mans Art
This book is a spin off to the first three books. Although its a spin off it still has that strong connection to the MacGregors.
This book focuses on Grant Campbell who we met briefly in Shelbys and Alan's story, he is her brother and a social recluse and utterly gorgeous.
Genvieve Grandeau is a beautiful artist looking to enjoy a month painting the beautiful town and she has her sights set on Grants lighthouse to paint.
Grant is still living with his fathers assassination when he was a teenager and Gennie is dealing with her sisters death. This book is a lovely story about battling demons and dealing with the things that hurt you the most. Gennie is a strong woman and possibly the only one who has ever got to Grant.
Grant felt it the moment he saw her and she did too. Their firey relationship is a wonderful read and although the story was a spin off it was linked very well.
Grant knows the MacGregors through his sister and being at their wedding. Gennie is related to Justin and Diana from their french side of the family. Amazingly there is the link and once again Daniel is able to have a little fun helping a romantic out!
All together they are at the MacGregors home and becoming a family, Diana now pregnant and Alan and Shelby home from their honeymoon and Rena giving birth to the first of the grandchildren,
Its a good story and a lovely way to keep the interest in the MacGregors.
For Now, Forever
This book is a favourite of mine. It gives you the back story of Daniel and Anna. Its a wonderfully written book and its done from the point of view of Daniel dreaming. It starts with Daniel being hurt really badly in a car accident and the whole family waiting at the hospital. While waiting for him to come around Anna sits with him and he dreams about how he and Anna first met and fell in love.
Its a beautiful story and one i have not too much to say about.
Anna is a headstrong and independent and falls wildly in love with Daniel and his arogant and totally sexy manish attitude. He knows what he wants and that is Anna.
It was really lovely reading the way he and Anna met and why he is the way he is. The end of the book is seeing him wake to all his family around him, Serena and Justin and their baby and pregnant, Alan and Shelby and new baby boy Daniel, Caine and Diana and their daughter, Grant and Gennie heavily pregnant. He has everything he ever wanted around him and so much love.
Its lovely to see his and Anna's love and friendship and how that came about, totally brilliant book.
Rebellion
This book i found a little hard to get into, i found the jump to 1735/45 really difficult and found it really hard to imagine myself there. Dont get me wwrong it was very well written and like all of her novels the story was of romance and pain and survival but with the series starting with the children then going back in time to thier parents then jumoing all the way back again to eventually going forward and leaping way ahead to Daniel and Anna's granschildren.
Once i got into the story it was really good and i understood the rebellion at the time and the hatred for the English and certain clans of Scotland. The fire and passion of the Scottish and their need ot fight for what they believe in is evident and you can feel what they are feeling.
I did enjoy the story and once i was used to the tie difference it was a nice story to read. Seeing where the MacGregor passion and stubborness comes from and the brilliant red hair too. Serena MacGregor is a very fiery character and with lots of paaion and needs. Falling in love with an Englishman is not what she wanted or expected but never the less it was meant to be.
Brigham was a lord and very wealthy and fell in love with Serena and her fiery ways. He believed in what the Scottish did and being of the same heritage they were. He would fight along side the Scottish and almost died for them.
Coming back for Serena and taking her to America giving her the life he wanted for her along with some of her family.
In from the Cold
This story is all about Ian MacGregor who was born to Serena's brother in the end of Rebellion. He is now a grown man and still fighting the war. He gets injured and collapses in a barn. Alanna a beautiful widow comes upon him and her family nurse him back to health.
They are too firery with each other and soon love comes over them, she is anxious because war took her brother away, she lost her mother to grief adn her husband soon after. She never wanted that life for herself adn had no intention of falling in love with a man who embodied all she didnt want.
After a lot of heart ache and sufferring and a heartfelt intervention for Serena the couple go on to marry and have a baby the night the MacGregor name is cleared.
I did enjoy these stories but it was hard to put myself there like i do with all books i read. It wasnt the best of the books and i found i really didnt feel the need or want to know the history to be honest. I was quite happy reading the books in chronological order.
The MacGreggor Brides
This book is made up of three stories. It focuses on 3 of Daniel's grand daughters. Laura, Julia and Gwendolyn.
It starts with Laura MacGreggor the daughter of Caine and Diana. She is a tough new lawyer and works with her parents. She lives with her two cousins and has done for years.
She is strong and confident and of course as all the women in these books, she is stunning. She has no trouble with men but then Royce Cameron wasn't standing infront of her. He is an ex cop who has his own security business and hired by Daniel MacGreggor to check his grand daughters security at their home. He purposely puts Royce infront of her.
They start and have a wonderfully passionate love affair leading to what neither if them expected. He had been married before and wasn't sure he wanted it again but he didn't expect to love Laura.
A lovely short story with the infamous Daniel MacGreggor getting his way!!
Next up for his meddling ways was Gwendolyn, a beautiful doctor and daughter of Serena and Justin. She has no time for a man. In walks Branson Maguire a novelist and very successful. He is researching a book with a doctor as the main character. Daniel asks her to help him out so she obliges as she loves her grandfather.
What she didn't expect was to fall in love and risk everything.
Feeling the love and romance between them and her innocence is so beautifully written.
Nora is able to make you feel those feelings and bring it to the surface. I live reading her and cannot put the book down.
Gwen and Brandon so perfect and Daniel MacGreggor once again pulls it out the bag!
My favourite part in this story is the 12 days of Christmas he gives her and how the emotion is clear as he does. I just loved it!
Last but by no means least is Julia and my favourite out of the three. She is the daughter of Alan and Shelby and a super super business woman. Buying houses and doing them up she is the best at what she does. Her regular builder is unable to work the new house she has so hi son who she hates is doing it.
Funny though because Daniel and the father of cullum plotted it together, naughty naughty! I love the conspiracy and naughtyness of it all!
She is a feisty woman and knows what she wants and that is not cullum but he keeps popping up! They fight and argue so much and it's so fun to read. And you can feel the passion oozing and building up and as your reading you are waiting for that moment when the passion explodes and they don't let you down. It's heat and fire and without realising it falling in love.
The whole Cilla Black of Daniel MacGreggor and his mischievous ways just makes me smile. Thoroughly enjoyed these three little stories and am looking forward to reading the next installment of the great MacGreggor and his clan!
The Winning Hand
I absolutely love love love this book! Darcey is a very pretty innocent young woman who ran away from her terrible life and a man who frightened her.
She ran all the way to Vegas and was dazzled by the bright lights. She strolls into The Commanche and right up to the slots and putting her last 10 dollars in the machine she hit big! A little under 2 million dollars.
She looks like a homeless person with only a bag to her name but when she wins and a crowd builds she faints and wakes up with a gorgeous man watching her. Daniel 'Mac' MacGreggor the eldest of the grandchildren and son to Serena and Justin. He runs the Vegas casino and proceeds to help Darcey and her winnings.
Eventually they become entagled and love becomes an issue. He falls hard and she is smitten. Daniel plays his part in this novel, although he doesnt set up the meeting he however does fly to vegas and meddle a little. As does Serena becoming a little like her meddling father!
I really enjoyed the book and found myself feeling excited by the buzz of vegas just as i had with Serena and Justin and their casino story.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book and am finding it very hard to think the series is nearly finished!
on to the next i believe!!
The MacGreggor Grooms
OMG i am totally falling in love with these books. The MacGreggors have become a part of my life for the past month and i have been living in their world. I have thought about them constantly and needing to read the next is always on my mind. The phrase "i just couldnt put it down" is so true in every sense of the word. I really have not been able to put them down!
These next stories in one book are about three of Daniel MacGreggors grandsons, DC MacGreggor, Duncan Blade and Ian MacGreggor. And i have to say i am totally in love with all of the men as well!!
DC MacGreggor is the son of Alan and Shelby and a very good artist. He is a little bit of a recluse like his uncle and just as brilliant. He loves his family with passion and after living in the white house for 8 years likes his peace and quiet.
Layna is a beautiful young woman who is the god daughter of Myra (Anna's best friend in Daniel and Anna's story). DC is also Myra's god child and she sees fit to help Daniel in his meddling ways!
Layna has taken over her fathers department store and has recently moved to the area. Daniel get DC to help her and from then on a love blossoms. She is not his type (or so Daniel tells him) therefore DC finds it amusing to start a romance with her and it ending with them both head over heels (just as Daniel and Myra planned!).
I loved this story and laughed at some of the lines, Nora does put comedy into her books but only enough to make you smile or have a little laugh and then the romance and pure passion ooze out of the books.
Duncan Blade is the son of Serena and Justin and runs the riverboat casino and is a known playboy nad all around lady's man. And why not he is gorgeous and young.
Cat Farrell is a beautiful singer on the rise and is hired for the entertainment on the boat, By recommendation of his brother Mac who advised of her via Daniel of course!!
Cat is a rising star with the voice to match and she is aware that nothing can stand in her way so when Duncan decides he wants her she tries so hard to not be interested but how long can she stay away from him when she is slowly falling in love with him.
She tries hard not to care and even after e helps her career by contacting a record label she cant hel but fall head over heels.
I loved Cat's character and she is a very sexy and exciting woman, you can see what Duncan sees in her. The love and passionate scenes in the books are as always amazing and you feel the tingles and makes you wish you were the woman on the recieving end of it!!!
Ian MacGreggor is a lawyer and the son of Caine and Diana. He works at the family lae firm with his parents and sister Laura. He loves his job and he is heading for politics as his father did and possibly presidency as his uncle did but for that to happen he needs to settle down and he is ready.
Ian is a little bit of a scamp with the women and can easily get one but he meets Naomi and everything shifts.
She is a quiet woman with a very differnet life to Ian, she used to be fat and not that attractive. She shied away from people and lived a very sad and quiet life. When her father passed the bookstore to her she grabbed hold and decided to change her life.
She got a makeover and lost weight and now a successful business woman she runs the store. Ian is tasked to deal with the deal of partnership between her and her father, organising the contracts and then for reasons unknown to him he falls in love with her.
She is innocent and had never even been kissed by a man. She was having all her firsts with Ian and he was totally unaware of that. When she told him he was shocked but loved her more.
After some heart ache (of course) and some emotional realisations for both they come back together.
A great story and i really enjoyed each of the stories but after each one finished i wanted more!
onto the last one now.....:0(
The Perfect Neighbour
I loved this story. That is it really.
This story is about an artist Cybil the daughter of Genvieve and Grant Campbell. They are honorary family to the MacGreggors and that doesnt deter the lovely Daniel from meddling in her love life!
Preston is a play write and a very good one at that, a little solitary like her father and when her sunny and happy nature infect him he has no hope!!
She becomes part of his life and despite not wanting it he finds himself needing her and he becomes totally infatuated with her.
he has a past that is affecting his present and she realises that it may not work out as she wants it to.
After again much heart ache and emotional arguments they finally get together and admit how they feel. Daniel is not innocent in the match as well because he owns the building that Cybil lives in and offers the apartment to Preston while his house is being rennovated. Placing him directly in her path and hoping the rest will just develop. He had never got it wrong up to now and even in his 90's he still has it!
This is the last book in the MacGreggor series and a good one at that! Meeting Gennie and Grant again and their relationship that has impacted on Cybil.
Preston had no chance!!!
When i finished the book i was left feeling a little sad and deflated that it was all over, the MacGreggors have been a part of my life for over a month now and i am upset that it has ended however am pleased i can go on and read more of Nora's brilliant stories.
The MacGreggor's will always have a solid place in my heart and i will be happy to go back and read them in the future reminding myself of the wonderful family.
Daniel and Anna's love and commitment carries through all of the books and in the lives of all of the children and grand children, influencing them and making them feel and want the love they still have even after 60 years.
A huge well done to Nora for this collection, it must have been a joy to write them and develop them over the years she wrote.
A very well deserved 10/10 for me!!!
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
Irish Hearts by Nora Roberts
Irish Hearts set is made up three books
Irish Thoroughbred
Irish Rose
Irish Rebel
Irish Throroughbred
The Irish Thoroughbred is Nora's first published Novel and i have to say it doesnt disappoint! I love the characters and the romance and the pull of the wonderful scene she sets in this book and I cannot wait to start reading Irish Rose.
Adelia is a beautiful Irish lass with a strong and powerful personality, she is small and looks very pixie like but she has got a wickedly sharp tongue on her.
I loved the background story of Adelia almost as much as i loved her, she had a tough life and up to now never really lived. Her parent died and her aunt who sounds horrible raised her along with the farm. Adelia is very grateful person but you can tell that she had led a somewhat niave life up to her moving to America.
Adelia's uncle Paddy is a fantastic character and the love they have for each other in totally unconditional, he brings her to America to live after the aunt dies and Adelia is treated very well.
She cannot believe her luck at the life she has landed into and soon becomes a member of the family on the stables that Travis Grant owns.
She loves the horses and is a bot of a horse whisperer, which i think adds to the mystical Irish personality she undoubtably has.
Travis is obviously taken with her and they start a little love affair, he only kisses herwhich drives not only her but the reader insane!! I wanted him to throw her down in the hay and have his way with her, something i feel Nora would may have written if the book was to be written now?
I was sad and shocked that Paddy might die and leave her alone and was a little confused by the whole ordeal. It went from a passionate love happening to a man almost dying and a marriage to please him? I wasnt really sure what direction i was going to take and was a bit disappointed by the change in direction.
I felt sorry for Adelia and wanted her so much to have a happy ending, as the book fast approached the end and Travis was different and cold and i actually was really starting to not like him, things changed.
A fight and subsequent heart felt outrage that came from both Adelia and Travis shined a light on how each were feeling and that neither one knew it. The ending was happy i fnot a little abrupt however it is not the usual length of Nora's books so the story was only 10 chapters.
I would have very much like to read a littel more about the character and am sure i will be meeting them again in the next book.
overall a good book and i give it a 5/10.
Irish Rose
Irish Rose is a strange book for me, i dont really know why but it didnt flow as well as i hoped and was a little confused at times.
There was no denying the strength of the character and the supporting ones, giving you a lovely taste of Adelia and her youth and then the racing circle and how that all works BUT i wasnt as connected to the story this time and i really wanted to be.
Erin is a fantastic woman and a great read, as is Burke but they didn tmesh as well as i hoped and although the steamy kisses left nothing to the imagination i was left feeling a lilttle confused. Burke was hot and cold and i understand his characters past played in that and Erin was totally smack bang in love with him but he couldnt see it. I suppose the word i am looking for was frustrating!! Even after Erin had been kidnapped and nearly killed Burke was oblivious to how Erin felt about him and i wanted to smack him around the chops!
Nora has written another great book but it really got me going this one and I wasnt as happy with it. It was set about 7 years after Adelia and Travis. They have three kids and twins in the way, so much has moved on and reading straight off from that book into this i hadnt left a big enough gap between and had to adjust to the time.
This i fear will be the same case in the last book as it is focused around a young man and his relationship with Adelia's daughter who in this book is about 5 years old. It was adjusting like i had for the Chesapeake Bay saga and the last book, being written 10 years later and all of the loved characters were older and everything had changed.
Again there is a strong supporting cast and at times it is funny and heartwarming. Burke and Erin are very firery and it is lovely to read. The kidnapping was really well written and it was darka nd scary and you were worried for Erin but the rescue and the days after were a disappointment and i was left feeling a little sad for Erin and how she felt.
I ached for her when she said he didnt love her and was ok with that, i felt for her when she overheard people slagging off her relationship and the reasons that she married him. She realised he thought that as well and no matter what she did he didnt believe her.
He infuriates me so much and i was happy when the book ended. I always love love love the male characters in the book and Nora writes them so wonderfully male and strong and sexy and the person reading the book falls in love with them right along with the women. However Burke didnt do it for me and i didnt really find him alluring. He was arrogant and sexist and just a little bit sleezy in my eyes so i could nt fall for him like have all the others.
I enjoyed the story but by far my worst one to date. My score is 4/10.
Irish Rebel
mmmm what can i say about this book? I actually really loved it.
Keely Grant being the eldest daughter of Adelia and Travis from the first book was obviously beautiful and now in her mid 20's has a life and career of her own.
She is a fabulously confident and firery character to read and feel, she is a lot like her mother in the first book but with a little more confidence.
Brian is a new horse trainer hired after Paddy leaves to go home to Ireland, he is a tough hard man but a soft gooey centre!
He is very rugged and handsome and is full of pride, so full of pride that he rubs Keely up the wrong way. Its funny and emotional reading the blossoming romance and the turmoil that goes along with it.
Keely knows what she wants and she goes for it, and that being Brian. He is totally helpless and cannot help but fall hard.
The book is short as are all of Nora's first books and i am finding the books are 2 in 1. I do have a Kindle but the earlier books are not available on it so i am reading them in paperback. Holding a book and turning the pages again is nice.
Overall a good book and Nora is very good at articulating the innocence and vulnerability of love and sex. Keely being so inexperienced and Brian the polar opposite yet they have so muchh the same inside them.
I like how the one thing he wants to do is run and keep running but she is rooted and needs family, she changes him emotionally and he changes her physically. I enjoyed this book and was touched by the romantic story and it was really lovely to read about Adelia and travis and their lives and alos touching briefly on Burke and Erin's life.
maybe a fourth book linked to them and their children may have been a nice follow on but the trilogy has finished and i am left feeling a little, lost not having more to read. I take that as a good thing and it has kept me gripped! I will now move on to another set of books......
overall a 6/10 i think!
Irish Thoroughbred
Irish Rose
Irish Rebel
Irish Throroughbred
The Irish Thoroughbred is Nora's first published Novel and i have to say it doesnt disappoint! I love the characters and the romance and the pull of the wonderful scene she sets in this book and I cannot wait to start reading Irish Rose.
Adelia is a beautiful Irish lass with a strong and powerful personality, she is small and looks very pixie like but she has got a wickedly sharp tongue on her.
I loved the background story of Adelia almost as much as i loved her, she had a tough life and up to now never really lived. Her parent died and her aunt who sounds horrible raised her along with the farm. Adelia is very grateful person but you can tell that she had led a somewhat niave life up to her moving to America.
Adelia's uncle Paddy is a fantastic character and the love they have for each other in totally unconditional, he brings her to America to live after the aunt dies and Adelia is treated very well.
She cannot believe her luck at the life she has landed into and soon becomes a member of the family on the stables that Travis Grant owns.
She loves the horses and is a bot of a horse whisperer, which i think adds to the mystical Irish personality she undoubtably has.
Travis is obviously taken with her and they start a little love affair, he only kisses herwhich drives not only her but the reader insane!! I wanted him to throw her down in the hay and have his way with her, something i feel Nora would may have written if the book was to be written now?
I was sad and shocked that Paddy might die and leave her alone and was a little confused by the whole ordeal. It went from a passionate love happening to a man almost dying and a marriage to please him? I wasnt really sure what direction i was going to take and was a bit disappointed by the change in direction.
I felt sorry for Adelia and wanted her so much to have a happy ending, as the book fast approached the end and Travis was different and cold and i actually was really starting to not like him, things changed.
A fight and subsequent heart felt outrage that came from both Adelia and Travis shined a light on how each were feeling and that neither one knew it. The ending was happy i fnot a little abrupt however it is not the usual length of Nora's books so the story was only 10 chapters.
I would have very much like to read a littel more about the character and am sure i will be meeting them again in the next book.
overall a good book and i give it a 5/10.
Irish Rose
Irish Rose is a strange book for me, i dont really know why but it didnt flow as well as i hoped and was a little confused at times.
There was no denying the strength of the character and the supporting ones, giving you a lovely taste of Adelia and her youth and then the racing circle and how that all works BUT i wasnt as connected to the story this time and i really wanted to be.
Erin is a fantastic woman and a great read, as is Burke but they didn tmesh as well as i hoped and although the steamy kisses left nothing to the imagination i was left feeling a lilttle confused. Burke was hot and cold and i understand his characters past played in that and Erin was totally smack bang in love with him but he couldnt see it. I suppose the word i am looking for was frustrating!! Even after Erin had been kidnapped and nearly killed Burke was oblivious to how Erin felt about him and i wanted to smack him around the chops!
Nora has written another great book but it really got me going this one and I wasnt as happy with it. It was set about 7 years after Adelia and Travis. They have three kids and twins in the way, so much has moved on and reading straight off from that book into this i hadnt left a big enough gap between and had to adjust to the time.
This i fear will be the same case in the last book as it is focused around a young man and his relationship with Adelia's daughter who in this book is about 5 years old. It was adjusting like i had for the Chesapeake Bay saga and the last book, being written 10 years later and all of the loved characters were older and everything had changed.
Again there is a strong supporting cast and at times it is funny and heartwarming. Burke and Erin are very firery and it is lovely to read. The kidnapping was really well written and it was darka nd scary and you were worried for Erin but the rescue and the days after were a disappointment and i was left feeling a little sad for Erin and how she felt.
I ached for her when she said he didnt love her and was ok with that, i felt for her when she overheard people slagging off her relationship and the reasons that she married him. She realised he thought that as well and no matter what she did he didnt believe her.
He infuriates me so much and i was happy when the book ended. I always love love love the male characters in the book and Nora writes them so wonderfully male and strong and sexy and the person reading the book falls in love with them right along with the women. However Burke didnt do it for me and i didnt really find him alluring. He was arrogant and sexist and just a little bit sleezy in my eyes so i could nt fall for him like have all the others.
I enjoyed the story but by far my worst one to date. My score is 4/10.
Irish Rebel
mmmm what can i say about this book? I actually really loved it.
Keely Grant being the eldest daughter of Adelia and Travis from the first book was obviously beautiful and now in her mid 20's has a life and career of her own.
She is a fabulously confident and firery character to read and feel, she is a lot like her mother in the first book but with a little more confidence.
Brian is a new horse trainer hired after Paddy leaves to go home to Ireland, he is a tough hard man but a soft gooey centre!
He is very rugged and handsome and is full of pride, so full of pride that he rubs Keely up the wrong way. Its funny and emotional reading the blossoming romance and the turmoil that goes along with it.
Keely knows what she wants and she goes for it, and that being Brian. He is totally helpless and cannot help but fall hard.
The book is short as are all of Nora's first books and i am finding the books are 2 in 1. I do have a Kindle but the earlier books are not available on it so i am reading them in paperback. Holding a book and turning the pages again is nice.
Overall a good book and Nora is very good at articulating the innocence and vulnerability of love and sex. Keely being so inexperienced and Brian the polar opposite yet they have so muchh the same inside them.
I like how the one thing he wants to do is run and keep running but she is rooted and needs family, she changes him emotionally and he changes her physically. I enjoyed this book and was touched by the romantic story and it was really lovely to read about Adelia and travis and their lives and alos touching briefly on Burke and Erin's life.
maybe a fourth book linked to them and their children may have been a nice follow on but the trilogy has finished and i am left feeling a little, lost not having more to read. I take that as a good thing and it has kept me gripped! I will now move on to another set of books......
overall a 6/10 i think!
Now the Chalenge begins!
All of the books i have blogged about up to now i have already read before embarking on this journey. I felt it was necessary to start off with the ones i had already read to get them out of the way. However i may have to read them again as i go through the list.
It would be good to see Nora's progress as a writer to read them all in chronological order and i have a list going as we speak. I will have to add to it as the year goes on as she has a few planned releases this year, (and one in particular i am eager to read!).
This is a massive challenge for me becasue i dont have lots and lots of free time as you may be thinking, i am a mother and wife, i have a home to look after, i work full time as a health visitor and am studying a degree.
You may think i am a little crazy however i find reading relaxing and i wanted to share how i feel about these books with anyone out there who will read my blogs.
So i hearby announce this challenge fully under way and i have read Nora's first ever published book Irish Thoroghbred and i loved every bit of it!!
I hope you enjoy reading the blogs as much as i enjoy readign the books!
bye for now!
It would be good to see Nora's progress as a writer to read them all in chronological order and i have a list going as we speak. I will have to add to it as the year goes on as she has a few planned releases this year, (and one in particular i am eager to read!).
This is a massive challenge for me becasue i dont have lots and lots of free time as you may be thinking, i am a mother and wife, i have a home to look after, i work full time as a health visitor and am studying a degree.
You may think i am a little crazy however i find reading relaxing and i wanted to share how i feel about these books with anyone out there who will read my blogs.
So i hearby announce this challenge fully under way and i have read Nora's first ever published book Irish Thoroghbred and i loved every bit of it!!
I hope you enjoy reading the blogs as much as i enjoy readign the books!
bye for now!
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Chesapeake Bay Saga by Nora Roberts
The Chesapeake Bay Saga was the first books i was recommended to read but i chose to read the bride quartet instead and although i will always hold those first books close to my heart I will always regret that i didnt read these books first.
There is a reason she told me to read these and i was foolish enough not to listen to her. I am big enough to admit that i was wrong and i shoudl have read these first, not only because i would have the had the place in my heart that willl always love the first book read just like Nora feels her first book she ever wrote is special, but i would also just purely love the saga.
The Chesapeake Bay Saga is quite honestly brilliantly written. The story in each book is so individual but with a clear and distinctive emotional link to the other books. The subject of the books in respect to the four men in the lead roles and what happened to them as kids, due to my job i feel connected to the subject.
I am a paediatric nurse and i deal a lot with children who have been or are in violent or abusive families, these books touch on this subject and very well. Nora captures the emotion in the children and then the men, when they deal with what happened to them. All four stories are very touching and i cried adn laughed and felt warm and fuzzies.
The books focus around Seth, a young boy recently taken in by Ray Quinn, he does that, take in strays and now he is dead. A freak car accident and he is gone but asking his three sons to take of Seth.
The first book leads of with Cameron Quinn...
Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
Cameron Quinn is a very sucessful and famous boat racer, he travels the world and has many women and a lifestyle you can only dream of.
He goes home after his dad dies and makes a promise to him with his brothers to take care of Seth, Ray's newest stray.
Cam is a very tall strong man who i see as a taller Vin Diesel type of man, he has a mean streak in him but deep down he is warm and kind and full of emotion.
Cameron and his brothers come together to help care for Seth and a number of issues come up which they have to deal with. Cameron dealing with his own childhood of being beaten regularly by his father gives him some idea of how to help Seth come to terms with his own ordeal.
Along with all of that and a very unwilling and violent young boy to deal with a social worker becomes involved.
Anna is a beautiful wild young woman with italian roots, she is a very good social worker and took an interest in the case due to hearing so much about mr and mrs Quinn who take in these kids with so much baggage.
The realtionship between Cam and Anna is firery at first and with a lot of passion, i love the Anna character and think she is perfect for Cam. She comes into the house and bosses the men around from the beginning and becomes a mother figure for Seth. She fits right in and the way she tells them all off is hilarious and really funny to read.
But when Nora gets into the nitty gritty of the abuse and violence in childhood scenes the whole mood of the book changes and you feel what the characters feel and the seriousness of the subject.
Like is said before i do appreciate the way Nora has touched this subject and feel that she dealth with it so well. Its easy to see Cam makes an impact on Seth as does Anna and when you read the following the two books you see how the other brothers experiences in childhood effect and help deal with Seth in the present.
Nora also adds a touch of the supernatural in this book as well and i am starting to get the impression she likes the supernatural. Ray Quinn presents himself to each of the three men in the attempt to help and guide them with Seth.
Its touching and emotional and as the series goes on so does Seths story and the truth and the connection between the three men, Ray and Seth. As the men begin the journey of dealing with Seth and their own emotional state, their love life and starting a new venture of making boats, a dream they all had as kids and something Ray Quinn would be very proud of.
Rising Tides by Nora Roberts
In the second book we meet Ethan more in depth, he still lives in Chesapeake Bay and has a life on the sea and loves it. He is a seaman at heart and nothing will take it away.
He has been in love with Grace for a long time but she is younger than him and he never felt it was right, then she got married had a baby and then got divorced. He still loved her and loved her beautiful girl Aubrey.
Grace is very much part of the family and the first female that Seth ever trusted. He loves her and would protect her with his life. Something Ethan finds out.
Because Ethan is so slow and does everything at a snails pace things between him and Grace may never take off.
She has loved him forever and doesnt know if she should tell him.
A freak incident at the bar where Grace works ends in her and Ethan kissing, it passionate and sexy and leading but he stops it.
Ethan and Seth have a lot in common and his extremely violent and abusive childhood is so much like Seths and he has a connection to him. His experiences help Seth to deal with the particular aspect of his time living with his mother and Ethan feels like he makes progress.
Dealing with Seth helps him with Grace and admittting how he really feels about her and what he wants in life.
This book is a little more difficult to read due to the subject of sexual abuse and yet Nora writes it in a way where the reader can understand feel the emotion but not be freaked out or turned off by it.
Its a lovely book to read and i enjoyed it very much.
Inner Harbour by Nora Roberts
Being the third book in the saga and the last of the three men dealing ans coping with a young Seth it gives a nice ending to this initial trouble.
Cam and Ethan are married and happy and Phillip being the 'sensible' one still living between the bay and his place in the city is still single and feelign very worn out.
He is commuting and workign a full time job on top of helping in the boat yard. He hasnt got time to deal with a love life, so of course in comes the beautiful and sensible Sybill. She pops up in the bay and takes an interest in the Quinn brothers and especially their newest edition.
Is she all that she seems???
I like this book and it gives you the whole back story of Seth living with his mother and what his mother is like and where she came from and ended up the way she did. Sybill is a massive part in this story and as she falls in love with Phillip and Seth her priorities change a little.
Again Ray makes his appearance to help guide Phillip and his care of Seth.
This book gives a kind of ending to the current saga that has played out over the first three books and you believe that is the end of it and that the final book is just a nice story about Seth growing up, however there is always a twist......
Chespeake Blue by Nora Roberts
This is the final book to the saga and is a very good ending i think.
It is set some years later to the third book where Seth is now nearly 30 and living abroad creating wonderful art. he is very sucessful and has a wonderful ife.
Thanks to the Quinns.
He decides to come home and that is when the madness begins!
I did find this a little odd at first becasue for three books i have read Seth as a firery boy of 12 who is going through a horrific ordeal then to this book of a man 30 years old having sex etc. I had to make the leap.
I fall in love with the male leads as i supose most women do when they read books like this becasue they want to be taken away from thier lives however i couldnt do that with this book. i haad to look at his character a step back and not get too emotionally involved in the relationship between him and Dru.
I still had my connection to him as a boy and transformed that with the new story.
He is still dealing with his mother who is blackmailing him and he doesnt tell the brothers because he doesnt want ot upset their lives. This causes many problems and issues and eventually and big blow up in the end.
Its exciting and fun and the supporting characters are great. Gloria (seths mother) is a fabulous character we get to see a bit more of this time around and you can tell how she is dispised and hated by the Quinns and her own family.
In this book however its not Ray that comes to Seth, its Stella, Rays wife who died before Seth came to the family and one person he always wanted to meet. Its lovely to see how he just loves her no questions or pretenses and she gives hi the support and guidance any parent would give.
I loved this series so much and now i recomend this to everyone i meet, you have to read this one first!!!
I get excited when people ask about what book i am reading and i get so passionate about books, i always have but i believe i have found a writer that i can connect with and see why and how she writes what she does.
I give this saga a 9/10.
There is a reason she told me to read these and i was foolish enough not to listen to her. I am big enough to admit that i was wrong and i shoudl have read these first, not only because i would have the had the place in my heart that willl always love the first book read just like Nora feels her first book she ever wrote is special, but i would also just purely love the saga.
The Chesapeake Bay Saga is quite honestly brilliantly written. The story in each book is so individual but with a clear and distinctive emotional link to the other books. The subject of the books in respect to the four men in the lead roles and what happened to them as kids, due to my job i feel connected to the subject.
I am a paediatric nurse and i deal a lot with children who have been or are in violent or abusive families, these books touch on this subject and very well. Nora captures the emotion in the children and then the men, when they deal with what happened to them. All four stories are very touching and i cried adn laughed and felt warm and fuzzies.
The books focus around Seth, a young boy recently taken in by Ray Quinn, he does that, take in strays and now he is dead. A freak car accident and he is gone but asking his three sons to take of Seth.
The first book leads of with Cameron Quinn...
Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
Cameron Quinn is a very sucessful and famous boat racer, he travels the world and has many women and a lifestyle you can only dream of.
He goes home after his dad dies and makes a promise to him with his brothers to take care of Seth, Ray's newest stray.
Cam is a very tall strong man who i see as a taller Vin Diesel type of man, he has a mean streak in him but deep down he is warm and kind and full of emotion.
Cameron and his brothers come together to help care for Seth and a number of issues come up which they have to deal with. Cameron dealing with his own childhood of being beaten regularly by his father gives him some idea of how to help Seth come to terms with his own ordeal.
Along with all of that and a very unwilling and violent young boy to deal with a social worker becomes involved.
Anna is a beautiful wild young woman with italian roots, she is a very good social worker and took an interest in the case due to hearing so much about mr and mrs Quinn who take in these kids with so much baggage.
The realtionship between Cam and Anna is firery at first and with a lot of passion, i love the Anna character and think she is perfect for Cam. She comes into the house and bosses the men around from the beginning and becomes a mother figure for Seth. She fits right in and the way she tells them all off is hilarious and really funny to read.
But when Nora gets into the nitty gritty of the abuse and violence in childhood scenes the whole mood of the book changes and you feel what the characters feel and the seriousness of the subject.
Like is said before i do appreciate the way Nora has touched this subject and feel that she dealth with it so well. Its easy to see Cam makes an impact on Seth as does Anna and when you read the following the two books you see how the other brothers experiences in childhood effect and help deal with Seth in the present.
Nora also adds a touch of the supernatural in this book as well and i am starting to get the impression she likes the supernatural. Ray Quinn presents himself to each of the three men in the attempt to help and guide them with Seth.
Its touching and emotional and as the series goes on so does Seths story and the truth and the connection between the three men, Ray and Seth. As the men begin the journey of dealing with Seth and their own emotional state, their love life and starting a new venture of making boats, a dream they all had as kids and something Ray Quinn would be very proud of.
Rising Tides by Nora Roberts
In the second book we meet Ethan more in depth, he still lives in Chesapeake Bay and has a life on the sea and loves it. He is a seaman at heart and nothing will take it away.
He has been in love with Grace for a long time but she is younger than him and he never felt it was right, then she got married had a baby and then got divorced. He still loved her and loved her beautiful girl Aubrey.
Grace is very much part of the family and the first female that Seth ever trusted. He loves her and would protect her with his life. Something Ethan finds out.
Because Ethan is so slow and does everything at a snails pace things between him and Grace may never take off.
She has loved him forever and doesnt know if she should tell him.
A freak incident at the bar where Grace works ends in her and Ethan kissing, it passionate and sexy and leading but he stops it.
Ethan and Seth have a lot in common and his extremely violent and abusive childhood is so much like Seths and he has a connection to him. His experiences help Seth to deal with the particular aspect of his time living with his mother and Ethan feels like he makes progress.
Dealing with Seth helps him with Grace and admittting how he really feels about her and what he wants in life.
This book is a little more difficult to read due to the subject of sexual abuse and yet Nora writes it in a way where the reader can understand feel the emotion but not be freaked out or turned off by it.
Its a lovely book to read and i enjoyed it very much.
Inner Harbour by Nora Roberts
Being the third book in the saga and the last of the three men dealing ans coping with a young Seth it gives a nice ending to this initial trouble.
Cam and Ethan are married and happy and Phillip being the 'sensible' one still living between the bay and his place in the city is still single and feelign very worn out.
He is commuting and workign a full time job on top of helping in the boat yard. He hasnt got time to deal with a love life, so of course in comes the beautiful and sensible Sybill. She pops up in the bay and takes an interest in the Quinn brothers and especially their newest edition.
Is she all that she seems???
I like this book and it gives you the whole back story of Seth living with his mother and what his mother is like and where she came from and ended up the way she did. Sybill is a massive part in this story and as she falls in love with Phillip and Seth her priorities change a little.
Again Ray makes his appearance to help guide Phillip and his care of Seth.
This book gives a kind of ending to the current saga that has played out over the first three books and you believe that is the end of it and that the final book is just a nice story about Seth growing up, however there is always a twist......
Chespeake Blue by Nora Roberts
This is the final book to the saga and is a very good ending i think.
It is set some years later to the third book where Seth is now nearly 30 and living abroad creating wonderful art. he is very sucessful and has a wonderful ife.
Thanks to the Quinns.
He decides to come home and that is when the madness begins!
I did find this a little odd at first becasue for three books i have read Seth as a firery boy of 12 who is going through a horrific ordeal then to this book of a man 30 years old having sex etc. I had to make the leap.
I fall in love with the male leads as i supose most women do when they read books like this becasue they want to be taken away from thier lives however i couldnt do that with this book. i haad to look at his character a step back and not get too emotionally involved in the relationship between him and Dru.
I still had my connection to him as a boy and transformed that with the new story.
He is still dealing with his mother who is blackmailing him and he doesnt tell the brothers because he doesnt want ot upset their lives. This causes many problems and issues and eventually and big blow up in the end.
Its exciting and fun and the supporting characters are great. Gloria (seths mother) is a fabulous character we get to see a bit more of this time around and you can tell how she is dispised and hated by the Quinns and her own family.
In this book however its not Ray that comes to Seth, its Stella, Rays wife who died before Seth came to the family and one person he always wanted to meet. Its lovely to see how he just loves her no questions or pretenses and she gives hi the support and guidance any parent would give.
I loved this series so much and now i recomend this to everyone i meet, you have to read this one first!!!
I get excited when people ask about what book i am reading and i get so passionate about books, i always have but i believe i have found a writer that i can connect with and see why and how she writes what she does.
I give this saga a 9/10.
Friday, 6 January 2012
The MacKade Brother by Nora Roberts
The MacKade brothers are........well.......mmmmmmmmmmm
I think i am already in love with all of them! They are gorgeous and smart and so very sexy and know exactly how to drive a woman to their knees.
There are four books in this set and i have to say i wish there were more. The brothers are so wonderful, they are the stars of the books through and through and they do not disappoint.
Nora writes these books more in the point of view of the men this time and they are the root of the story and it is their lives individually and collectively that attracts.
They are all equally embedded in the town history fro the civil war and they each have very different experiences and encounters with scenes and ghosts.
The books as follows
The Return of Rafe MacKade
The Pride of Jared MacKade
The Heart of Devin MacKade
The Fall of Shane MacKade
All four are fantastic and i actually do not have a favourite, they are all fantastic reads and the men in the books are such a joy to picture in your head! And the best part about these wonderful men is watching the women enter and change their lives forever!
The Return of Rafe MacKade
Rafe MacKade is probably the badest of the brothers, he has a bad temper and he was always in trouble when he was younger. His brothers were always there as well but he was useually the start of the trouble. He is a dark character that exudes sex and danger and everything that Regan doesnt need.
Regan owns an antiques store in town and has lived there for a littke while, she knows the brothers but has never met Rafe.
Rafe comes back into town after being away for a long time, making something of his life. He has built a massive business and is very successful. He has come home for good this time and to buy the old Barlow place and renovate to make an inn.
Rafe is a fabulous character and an interesting one at that. He is the most dangerous and would be the most likely to solve something with his fists. The brothers were all different and ended up doing different things. Rafe had his business building, Jared was a sucessful lawyer, Devin was the town sheriff and Shane had made a living on the farm that was left to them when their mother died.
Rafe had no interest in the farm that had killed his father and was never any good at it, he helped out from time to time if he was in town but that was it.
He asks Regan to help build the interior to the inn to restore it to its former glory, a job she is excited to do. The old house holds many memories and that is where Rafe has had many of his experiences with the ghosts.
The ghosts have connected with the brothers and Rafe remembers it all too well, it has effected him and has this need to restore the house to see if it will make any difference in the experiences he has.
He and Regan start a sexual relationship and Nora again writes these scenes so well that you can almost feel him touching you. Its hard to actually describe how well written it is and i suppose for everyone there is a different experience, it depends on how well the reader can imagine the characters and how in depth you engulf yourself in it.
There are some extremely funny parts to the book, like the bet that he and Regan make which they both loose but the consequences are brilliant and the parts that are scarey is the ongoing issue that the MacKade brothers have with Joe Dolin who is married to Cassie and how he effects each and every one of their lives. He is an ongoing problem that is snuffed out later in the series.
The story doesnt solve the mystery of the ghosts and the inn is not complete by the end however there are three other book in the series so there is more room for development with the other brothers having their experiences and developing the background further.
Regan gets her own experiences and develops a relationship with the spirits. I do love these books and i have to say up until i read these ones i felt these were my favourite.
But that can change!
The Pride of Jared MacKade
Jared MacKade is a very sucessful lawyer and has made something of his life despite what people in the town said about him and his brothers when they were kids.
Although equally sexy and dangerous i see Jared has a more sensible attitude now, he sees things differently from when he was younger, he wasnt the quiet one, that was Devin but he had seen things differently.
I see a man who had got out of a bad marriage and was trying to make the most of it. He needs passion and something that gives him a little kick in the stomach.
Savannah and her son move into the cabin in the woods. She has a history and wants to keep well away from the town folk. They are happy and she wants it to stay that way.
She is a tough character in the book, she is beautiful and smart and a wonderful artist. And when i think of a woman who is with a MacKade brother i see one that is very beautiful of course.
Jared helps her and she him in return, the woods had always been a special place for him and that is where he had all of his experiences and he is always drawn to them.
Its nice to see that although the brothers have different experiences that the background story is the same.
Nora writes this eerie story well into the romance and sex of the books and i feel like i am experiencing the same as the characters. Teh supporting characters in the books are brilliant along with the main ones and they support them so well enhancing the story.
Savannah has some kind of supernatural gift and she is a little more attuned to herself and those around her. Her story is what brings her and Jared together and they help each other. So far the MacKade women are all strong and they help save their men.
Hmmmm and woman saving a man, no change there then!
The Heart of Devin MacKade
Devin is the towns sheriff and he takes his job seriously. He is a serious man and he is the shy one i think. He is tender and caring and totally smack bang in love with Cassie. Cassie the waitress at Eds and now keeper at Rafes inn. she has two children and a husband who beat her on regular occasions since they were married.
This book for me was the most emotional, dealing with very real life issues. Domestic violence is a difficult issue to write about but Nora does it so well, she introduces the subject in the first book and Rafe and Regan deal with Joe and Cassie in their own way, Regan being Cassies best friend and Rafe having a history with Joe anyway then in Jared and Savannahs life the story develops as well and slowly everyone is involved.
Devin has always wanted to take Cassie away from Joe and keep her safe. He has been in love with her since he was a kid. She married Joe and although everyone knew what he was doing until Cassie said something there was nothing they could do.
Now Cassie was away from Joe and happy. I like Devin's character because he is sweet and cute and strong but he also has a bad side to him and one that he tries to keep under control. He can be dangerous and he is sexy, so very sexy.
Cassie is the one who has the encounters with the spirits living in the Inn she sees and feels more but it is how she connects to Devin.
He helps her get over what happened with Joe but its not quite over yet and the brothers will need to protect her once last time but will it end as well this time around? You will have to read and find out!!!
The Fall of Shane MacKade
Being the baby of the family he always had to catch up with his brothers. Shane is a little rough around the edgese and says exactly what he thinks and doesnt care about the consequences.
Due to Regans interest into the civil war story and the spirits connected to it and both the Inn and the MacKade home, her friend from college comes to help.
She is interested in the parapsychology and wants to help Regan as well as get away from her parents. Rebecca shall we say is a little niave and has not had a lot of life experiences.
Shane is so rough and strong tending to his farm. He has a massive issue with his three brothers not only getting married but having babies as well. He loves kids and his family but he really believes thats not for him. He is very adamant about how he want to live his life and he gets a massive kick in the nuts when he meets Rebecca.
Rebecca moves into the house to investigate but Shane really hates all the talk of spirits and the war. He doesnt believe in it and will not tolerate it. She pushes him into dealing with the ghost stuff and eventually he admits it all.
Its nice to watch shane fall and fall hard because of the way he acts throughout all of the other books and always teasing them about falling.
I really enjoyed these books and thought theu were brilliantly written. I loved the brothers and how well they are written.
I give this series and wonderfully deserved 7/10.
I think i am already in love with all of them! They are gorgeous and smart and so very sexy and know exactly how to drive a woman to their knees.
There are four books in this set and i have to say i wish there were more. The brothers are so wonderful, they are the stars of the books through and through and they do not disappoint.
Nora writes these books more in the point of view of the men this time and they are the root of the story and it is their lives individually and collectively that attracts.
They are all equally embedded in the town history fro the civil war and they each have very different experiences and encounters with scenes and ghosts.
The books as follows
The Return of Rafe MacKade
The Pride of Jared MacKade
The Heart of Devin MacKade
The Fall of Shane MacKade
All four are fantastic and i actually do not have a favourite, they are all fantastic reads and the men in the books are such a joy to picture in your head! And the best part about these wonderful men is watching the women enter and change their lives forever!
The Return of Rafe MacKade
Rafe MacKade is probably the badest of the brothers, he has a bad temper and he was always in trouble when he was younger. His brothers were always there as well but he was useually the start of the trouble. He is a dark character that exudes sex and danger and everything that Regan doesnt need.
Regan owns an antiques store in town and has lived there for a littke while, she knows the brothers but has never met Rafe.
Rafe comes back into town after being away for a long time, making something of his life. He has built a massive business and is very successful. He has come home for good this time and to buy the old Barlow place and renovate to make an inn.
Rafe is a fabulous character and an interesting one at that. He is the most dangerous and would be the most likely to solve something with his fists. The brothers were all different and ended up doing different things. Rafe had his business building, Jared was a sucessful lawyer, Devin was the town sheriff and Shane had made a living on the farm that was left to them when their mother died.
Rafe had no interest in the farm that had killed his father and was never any good at it, he helped out from time to time if he was in town but that was it.
He asks Regan to help build the interior to the inn to restore it to its former glory, a job she is excited to do. The old house holds many memories and that is where Rafe has had many of his experiences with the ghosts.
The ghosts have connected with the brothers and Rafe remembers it all too well, it has effected him and has this need to restore the house to see if it will make any difference in the experiences he has.
He and Regan start a sexual relationship and Nora again writes these scenes so well that you can almost feel him touching you. Its hard to actually describe how well written it is and i suppose for everyone there is a different experience, it depends on how well the reader can imagine the characters and how in depth you engulf yourself in it.
There are some extremely funny parts to the book, like the bet that he and Regan make which they both loose but the consequences are brilliant and the parts that are scarey is the ongoing issue that the MacKade brothers have with Joe Dolin who is married to Cassie and how he effects each and every one of their lives. He is an ongoing problem that is snuffed out later in the series.
The story doesnt solve the mystery of the ghosts and the inn is not complete by the end however there are three other book in the series so there is more room for development with the other brothers having their experiences and developing the background further.
Regan gets her own experiences and develops a relationship with the spirits. I do love these books and i have to say up until i read these ones i felt these were my favourite.
But that can change!
The Pride of Jared MacKade
Jared MacKade is a very sucessful lawyer and has made something of his life despite what people in the town said about him and his brothers when they were kids.
Although equally sexy and dangerous i see Jared has a more sensible attitude now, he sees things differently from when he was younger, he wasnt the quiet one, that was Devin but he had seen things differently.
I see a man who had got out of a bad marriage and was trying to make the most of it. He needs passion and something that gives him a little kick in the stomach.
Savannah and her son move into the cabin in the woods. She has a history and wants to keep well away from the town folk. They are happy and she wants it to stay that way.
She is a tough character in the book, she is beautiful and smart and a wonderful artist. And when i think of a woman who is with a MacKade brother i see one that is very beautiful of course.
Jared helps her and she him in return, the woods had always been a special place for him and that is where he had all of his experiences and he is always drawn to them.
Its nice to see that although the brothers have different experiences that the background story is the same.
Nora writes this eerie story well into the romance and sex of the books and i feel like i am experiencing the same as the characters. Teh supporting characters in the books are brilliant along with the main ones and they support them so well enhancing the story.
Savannah has some kind of supernatural gift and she is a little more attuned to herself and those around her. Her story is what brings her and Jared together and they help each other. So far the MacKade women are all strong and they help save their men.
Hmmmm and woman saving a man, no change there then!
The Heart of Devin MacKade
Devin is the towns sheriff and he takes his job seriously. He is a serious man and he is the shy one i think. He is tender and caring and totally smack bang in love with Cassie. Cassie the waitress at Eds and now keeper at Rafes inn. she has two children and a husband who beat her on regular occasions since they were married.
This book for me was the most emotional, dealing with very real life issues. Domestic violence is a difficult issue to write about but Nora does it so well, she introduces the subject in the first book and Rafe and Regan deal with Joe and Cassie in their own way, Regan being Cassies best friend and Rafe having a history with Joe anyway then in Jared and Savannahs life the story develops as well and slowly everyone is involved.
Devin has always wanted to take Cassie away from Joe and keep her safe. He has been in love with her since he was a kid. She married Joe and although everyone knew what he was doing until Cassie said something there was nothing they could do.
Now Cassie was away from Joe and happy. I like Devin's character because he is sweet and cute and strong but he also has a bad side to him and one that he tries to keep under control. He can be dangerous and he is sexy, so very sexy.
Cassie is the one who has the encounters with the spirits living in the Inn she sees and feels more but it is how she connects to Devin.
He helps her get over what happened with Joe but its not quite over yet and the brothers will need to protect her once last time but will it end as well this time around? You will have to read and find out!!!
The Fall of Shane MacKade
Being the baby of the family he always had to catch up with his brothers. Shane is a little rough around the edgese and says exactly what he thinks and doesnt care about the consequences.
Due to Regans interest into the civil war story and the spirits connected to it and both the Inn and the MacKade home, her friend from college comes to help.
She is interested in the parapsychology and wants to help Regan as well as get away from her parents. Rebecca shall we say is a little niave and has not had a lot of life experiences.
Shane is so rough and strong tending to his farm. He has a massive issue with his three brothers not only getting married but having babies as well. He loves kids and his family but he really believes thats not for him. He is very adamant about how he want to live his life and he gets a massive kick in the nuts when he meets Rebecca.
Rebecca moves into the house to investigate but Shane really hates all the talk of spirits and the war. He doesnt believe in it and will not tolerate it. She pushes him into dealing with the ghost stuff and eventually he admits it all.
Its nice to watch shane fall and fall hard because of the way he acts throughout all of the other books and always teasing them about falling.
I really enjoyed these books and thought theu were brilliantly written. I loved the brothers and how well they are written.
I give this series and wonderfully deserved 7/10.
In the Garden Trilogy
The In the Garden trilogy is made up of three books called
Blue Dahlia
Black Rose
Red Lily
They follow three very different womens lives who have all come together by different circumstances and have a strong but strange connection to the resident ghost that has haunted the rooms for some many years.
I was at first a little unsure if i would like this book because the story line of having a supernatural edge to it, however i was completely turned around after reading the firat book. The story of the Ghost really enhanced the emotional state of each of the women and gave a wonderful story and lovely but dramatic edge to it.
I was thoroughly hapy with this trilogy and enjoyed each one, i would say that the Red Lily was my favourite of the three and i am still waiting to see if there are any books by Nora Roberts i dont like.
Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts
In this book you meet Stella a mother of two boys and wife to Kevin. She worked in horticulture, loving flowers and plants etc.
I actually put this book down after reading the first chapter because i really wasnt warming to it and couldnt feel the story line.
I waited a month and picked it up again and it read much better that time.
Stella's character at the beginning suffers a massive heart ache where her husband dies in a plane crash on his way home froma business trip. Its absolutely heart breaking and you can really feel her pain however Nora doesnt let ou feel to sad for her for too long.
The humour of her callous mother and the decision to move back to where she came from and where her father and step mother live, gives a little light humour to the subject.
The act of moving on is clearly put accross in this book and Nora addresses the whole aspect of children loosing their father and how the strain effects them all. Nora does address the issue but doesnt make it the priority. Just like her other book the priority is Stella and her love life and the budding romance with gardner/landscape architect Logan.
He wasnt looking but he found, she infuriated him which is funny to read. They are always arguing however the underlying passion is screaming to get out.
Stellas move to the Harper house and work for Roz, the owner of a garden centre who supplies landscaping. Together with the young and vibrant Hayley who is heavily pregnant the ghost becomes more and more prominant.
Stella lives in harper house and has seen the ghost and felt her but the encounters become more and more emotional and demanding as the story progresses and the relationship between Stella and Logan gets deeper.
The ghost is a woman and as the book unfolds so does the back story of the ghost and her connection to Harper house and to the women and children who live there. Although there is a lot going on in the book the story really keeps you hanging on and wanting more. As soon as i put this book down i picked up the next.
Black Rose by Nora Roberts
Black Rose is all about Roz and her connection to this ghost. She employs a researcher who deals with family history and the unexplainable to help Stella herself and Hayley in finding out who the ghost is and how to help her move on.
He is a little odd and totally unorganised in life but very good at his job. I didnt feel as connected to this book as i have the previous ones, i am not sure if it because the characters are older and have children my age. I couldnt really realte to the characters as much as i had previously however the story was very good and you read Roz dealing with ex husbands with a certain penache and also how she and Mitch deal with the ghost and her connection to her.
Roz has three sons and only the youngest Harper lives on the grounds but hasnt had any dealings with the ghost since he was a young boy. Roz has seen the ghost as a young girl, again when she was pregnant and then when her boys were small.
There is an apparent connection to the children and being a mother but all of the research Mitch does doesnt lead to anything.
The story does keep you hanging a little and i suspected the truth would be found out in the final book. Roz's story was very good and had many action and lovely scenes in it between herself and the ghost and also with Mitch but like i said before i didnt feel as connected to this book.
I got through it quickly so i could get straight into the final book.
Red Lily by Nora Roberts
Thsi is the final book in the trilogy and in my opinion the best one. It gives the answers to the ghost mystery but not after lots of weird and slightly dangerous things happenng to Hayley the female lead in this book.
Hayley came to the Harper house as a distant relation on Roz's husbands side of the family and she is heavily taken pregnant so Roz takes her in. Hayley is a very confident and strong character in this book and i very much enjoy reading her, she is vibrant and exciting and that is probably why Harper has fallen in love with her.
Hayley is subjected to the most horrific connections with the ghost. She is possessed by her and she has very vivid dreams and experiences of her. It obvious that the ghost connects with her the most and that she is in live with Harper and how he looks ust like his grandfather who is responsible for the ghost and why she is there.
They eventually find out the reasons that the female ghost is doing what she does and that she is connected to the family.
Its a relief to find out the mystery and you kind of click and think oh yeah i guess that makes sense and you end up feeling a little sad for the ghost.
The three women are now family and from very different walks of life, Stella and Logan are married, Roz and Mitch are married and Hayley, Harper and lily are a family with a wedding to plana and a new baby on the way. This book is by far my favourite and the ongoing hillarious comic genious from David, Roz's housekeeper/surrogate son is brilliant. He offers a little light humour when needed and is one of the main characters without having a special connection himself.
A great trilogy that i will read again and again i think and i would give this series a 6/10.
Blue Dahlia
Black Rose
Red Lily
They follow three very different womens lives who have all come together by different circumstances and have a strong but strange connection to the resident ghost that has haunted the rooms for some many years.
I was at first a little unsure if i would like this book because the story line of having a supernatural edge to it, however i was completely turned around after reading the firat book. The story of the Ghost really enhanced the emotional state of each of the women and gave a wonderful story and lovely but dramatic edge to it.
I was thoroughly hapy with this trilogy and enjoyed each one, i would say that the Red Lily was my favourite of the three and i am still waiting to see if there are any books by Nora Roberts i dont like.
Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts
In this book you meet Stella a mother of two boys and wife to Kevin. She worked in horticulture, loving flowers and plants etc.
I actually put this book down after reading the first chapter because i really wasnt warming to it and couldnt feel the story line.
I waited a month and picked it up again and it read much better that time.
Stella's character at the beginning suffers a massive heart ache where her husband dies in a plane crash on his way home froma business trip. Its absolutely heart breaking and you can really feel her pain however Nora doesnt let ou feel to sad for her for too long.
The humour of her callous mother and the decision to move back to where she came from and where her father and step mother live, gives a little light humour to the subject.
The act of moving on is clearly put accross in this book and Nora addresses the whole aspect of children loosing their father and how the strain effects them all. Nora does address the issue but doesnt make it the priority. Just like her other book the priority is Stella and her love life and the budding romance with gardner/landscape architect Logan.
He wasnt looking but he found, she infuriated him which is funny to read. They are always arguing however the underlying passion is screaming to get out.
Stellas move to the Harper house and work for Roz, the owner of a garden centre who supplies landscaping. Together with the young and vibrant Hayley who is heavily pregnant the ghost becomes more and more prominant.
Stella lives in harper house and has seen the ghost and felt her but the encounters become more and more emotional and demanding as the story progresses and the relationship between Stella and Logan gets deeper.
The ghost is a woman and as the book unfolds so does the back story of the ghost and her connection to Harper house and to the women and children who live there. Although there is a lot going on in the book the story really keeps you hanging on and wanting more. As soon as i put this book down i picked up the next.
Black Rose by Nora Roberts
Black Rose is all about Roz and her connection to this ghost. She employs a researcher who deals with family history and the unexplainable to help Stella herself and Hayley in finding out who the ghost is and how to help her move on.
He is a little odd and totally unorganised in life but very good at his job. I didnt feel as connected to this book as i have the previous ones, i am not sure if it because the characters are older and have children my age. I couldnt really realte to the characters as much as i had previously however the story was very good and you read Roz dealing with ex husbands with a certain penache and also how she and Mitch deal with the ghost and her connection to her.
Roz has three sons and only the youngest Harper lives on the grounds but hasnt had any dealings with the ghost since he was a young boy. Roz has seen the ghost as a young girl, again when she was pregnant and then when her boys were small.
There is an apparent connection to the children and being a mother but all of the research Mitch does doesnt lead to anything.
The story does keep you hanging a little and i suspected the truth would be found out in the final book. Roz's story was very good and had many action and lovely scenes in it between herself and the ghost and also with Mitch but like i said before i didnt feel as connected to this book.
I got through it quickly so i could get straight into the final book.
Red Lily by Nora Roberts
Thsi is the final book in the trilogy and in my opinion the best one. It gives the answers to the ghost mystery but not after lots of weird and slightly dangerous things happenng to Hayley the female lead in this book.
Hayley came to the Harper house as a distant relation on Roz's husbands side of the family and she is heavily taken pregnant so Roz takes her in. Hayley is a very confident and strong character in this book and i very much enjoy reading her, she is vibrant and exciting and that is probably why Harper has fallen in love with her.
Hayley is subjected to the most horrific connections with the ghost. She is possessed by her and she has very vivid dreams and experiences of her. It obvious that the ghost connects with her the most and that she is in live with Harper and how he looks ust like his grandfather who is responsible for the ghost and why she is there.
They eventually find out the reasons that the female ghost is doing what she does and that she is connected to the family.
Its a relief to find out the mystery and you kind of click and think oh yeah i guess that makes sense and you end up feeling a little sad for the ghost.
The three women are now family and from very different walks of life, Stella and Logan are married, Roz and Mitch are married and Hayley, Harper and lily are a family with a wedding to plana and a new baby on the way. This book is by far my favourite and the ongoing hillarious comic genious from David, Roz's housekeeper/surrogate son is brilliant. He offers a little light humour when needed and is one of the main characters without having a special connection himself.
A great trilogy that i will read again and again i think and i would give this series a 6/10.
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Born In Trilogy by Nora Roberts
The Born In Trilogy follows the lives of three sisters and the three men than entagle them.
Set in a beautiful village of County Clare in Ireland Nora Roberts brings the feel of the quaint Irish village to you, she sets out the scenary with such passion and you can almost smell the sea air.
The characters are equally exciting and very different dealing wth such different day to day issues but underneath it all they are family and come together.
There are beautiful love stories and passion which as mentioned before is standard with a Nora Roberts novel however the style of passion between the three women was very different.
The love two of the sisters have for their passed father and the obligation to their mother sets a very tough and difficult past to contend with in the present and when dealing with the men in their lives.
Margaret Mary Concannon, Brianna Concannon and Shannon Bodine are sisters but each with very dfferent stories to tell.
Born in Fire by Nora Roberts
Margaret Concannon is a firey character in the first installment to the trilogy, she does what she wants when she wants.
When I first started reading Margaret and her way i found the dialogue a little difficult to grasp. There were a lot of Irish words and slang which i had to get used to but once i did the book was a joy to read.
Margaret is an artist and she designs and makes glass art which up to now she never sold. The book starts with her selling her first pieces and celebrating with her father who she adores fo rhim to later that evening die.
The relationship between margaret and her father Tommy is clear from only a few short sentences and she takes his death very hard. She was with him when he died and had to deal with that on her own.
Nora really grasps the raw emotion of the situation and when Margaret is crying you are too.
Margarets sister Brianna is the polar opposite to her but they love each other fiercly. Brianna however is bound and emprisoned b thier mother who is a bit of a bitter old witch really!
Margaret doesnt live with them so has a certain amount of freedom.
You can really feel her dislike for her mother and the way she treated everyone and even though she is shouting and ranting all the time about it you can tell there is a lot of things she isnt saying.
She is clear and adamant about her art and how she sells it, this character to me is very level headed and clear however i think a little niave about life and love.
In comes the equally bull willed and pig headed man Rogan, he is wealthy dealer in art and owns galleries all over the world.
He falls in love with Maggies art and soon her. Their relationship is all about the fire and passion, he ignites something she didnt think she had and its lovely to watch her transform from this hard nosed irish lass to a hard nosed woman in love.
An enjoyable read and would read again and recommended it to anyone willing to hear me rant!!
Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
Born in Ice follows Margarets sister Brianna a beautiful and careful woman who cares too much what people think and say. She runs her own B&B and takes a massive amount of pride into the running of it.
Brianna's character is so lovely and you cannot help but fall in love with her, her innosence is very appealing in this story.
Her mother constantly puts her down and makes her feel like nothing but thanks to Margaret and her successful art their mother now has her own house.
Brianna is now free and you can see she is liberated and happy that she can be herself but carries an enormous amount of guilt.
Greyson is an American writer who comes to stay at the B&B as his book is set in the village and he wanted to be there while he wrote the book. He is mean and moody with a lot of artistic temperment he shares with Maggie.
As he researches his book more he becomes more and more involved in Brianna's life and her family. He is taken by her and falls in love but tries not to admit it.
His past plays a massive role in their little romance and she is totally taken in by him.
Brianna wants romance and love and be whisked away, Maggis and Rogan have a baby which makes her want and need a family of her own.
Her vulnerability is amazing and Nora captures it well and even in the looks that moe between herself and Greyson you can feel the need.
Nora's way of tansferring that written emotion into reality is truel a gift.
Born in Shame by Nora Roberts
At the end of the last book, some family secrets come out and the sisters find out they have another sister that they knew nothing about.
At the start of this last book in teh trilogy Maggie and Brianna are looking for this sister. she is in America caring fo rher sick other and up to now didnt know anything about her other family or the little town of County Clare.
When you first meet Shannon she seems like a nice young lady and you feel an immediate sadness for her as her other is dying. On her death bed her mother tells her about the time she went to County Clare Ireland and met the handsome farmer called Tom Concannon.
Shannon is my least favourite character in t his series, believe there is one in each series that your not as tied to or have as much feeling for. I believe for me it was this one. Brianna is cold and hard and not very nice. She is rude and ungracious and seems to think she is owed everything.
Even when the sisters contact her she is really rude about it to later turn up there to visit. I understand that she is coming to terms with finding out her father wasnt her biological father and she had a mother who lied to her all these years who had just passed away and the huge deal of having two sisters. BUT she still seems a little unlikable to me!
When she comes to the village the sisters are so nice to her and try to include her as part of the family, even Maggie is nice which is a little bit of a stretch but Shannon is still very closed and refuses to let them into her heart.
Local boy Murphy who has known the family all of his life falls in love with her and she begins to let County Clare and her family into her heart and she starts to love everything. Its nice to see the change in her and how she chnages with a good dolop of passion and romance (not to mention the very saucy outdoor sex scene).
It was a nice way to end the trilogy and Nora has once again written a wonderful story of three different women with one similar and obvious connection.
My score 6/10
Set in a beautiful village of County Clare in Ireland Nora Roberts brings the feel of the quaint Irish village to you, she sets out the scenary with such passion and you can almost smell the sea air.
The characters are equally exciting and very different dealing wth such different day to day issues but underneath it all they are family and come together.
There are beautiful love stories and passion which as mentioned before is standard with a Nora Roberts novel however the style of passion between the three women was very different.
The love two of the sisters have for their passed father and the obligation to their mother sets a very tough and difficult past to contend with in the present and when dealing with the men in their lives.
Margaret Mary Concannon, Brianna Concannon and Shannon Bodine are sisters but each with very dfferent stories to tell.
Born in Fire by Nora Roberts
Margaret Concannon is a firey character in the first installment to the trilogy, she does what she wants when she wants.
When I first started reading Margaret and her way i found the dialogue a little difficult to grasp. There were a lot of Irish words and slang which i had to get used to but once i did the book was a joy to read.
Margaret is an artist and she designs and makes glass art which up to now she never sold. The book starts with her selling her first pieces and celebrating with her father who she adores fo rhim to later that evening die.
The relationship between margaret and her father Tommy is clear from only a few short sentences and she takes his death very hard. She was with him when he died and had to deal with that on her own.
Nora really grasps the raw emotion of the situation and when Margaret is crying you are too.
Margarets sister Brianna is the polar opposite to her but they love each other fiercly. Brianna however is bound and emprisoned b thier mother who is a bit of a bitter old witch really!
Margaret doesnt live with them so has a certain amount of freedom.
You can really feel her dislike for her mother and the way she treated everyone and even though she is shouting and ranting all the time about it you can tell there is a lot of things she isnt saying.
She is clear and adamant about her art and how she sells it, this character to me is very level headed and clear however i think a little niave about life and love.
In comes the equally bull willed and pig headed man Rogan, he is wealthy dealer in art and owns galleries all over the world.
He falls in love with Maggies art and soon her. Their relationship is all about the fire and passion, he ignites something she didnt think she had and its lovely to watch her transform from this hard nosed irish lass to a hard nosed woman in love.
An enjoyable read and would read again and recommended it to anyone willing to hear me rant!!
Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
Born in Ice follows Margarets sister Brianna a beautiful and careful woman who cares too much what people think and say. She runs her own B&B and takes a massive amount of pride into the running of it.
Brianna's character is so lovely and you cannot help but fall in love with her, her innosence is very appealing in this story.
Her mother constantly puts her down and makes her feel like nothing but thanks to Margaret and her successful art their mother now has her own house.
Brianna is now free and you can see she is liberated and happy that she can be herself but carries an enormous amount of guilt.
Greyson is an American writer who comes to stay at the B&B as his book is set in the village and he wanted to be there while he wrote the book. He is mean and moody with a lot of artistic temperment he shares with Maggie.
As he researches his book more he becomes more and more involved in Brianna's life and her family. He is taken by her and falls in love but tries not to admit it.
His past plays a massive role in their little romance and she is totally taken in by him.
Brianna wants romance and love and be whisked away, Maggis and Rogan have a baby which makes her want and need a family of her own.
Her vulnerability is amazing and Nora captures it well and even in the looks that moe between herself and Greyson you can feel the need.
Nora's way of tansferring that written emotion into reality is truel a gift.
Born in Shame by Nora Roberts
At the end of the last book, some family secrets come out and the sisters find out they have another sister that they knew nothing about.
At the start of this last book in teh trilogy Maggie and Brianna are looking for this sister. she is in America caring fo rher sick other and up to now didnt know anything about her other family or the little town of County Clare.
When you first meet Shannon she seems like a nice young lady and you feel an immediate sadness for her as her other is dying. On her death bed her mother tells her about the time she went to County Clare Ireland and met the handsome farmer called Tom Concannon.
Shannon is my least favourite character in t his series, believe there is one in each series that your not as tied to or have as much feeling for. I believe for me it was this one. Brianna is cold and hard and not very nice. She is rude and ungracious and seems to think she is owed everything.
Even when the sisters contact her she is really rude about it to later turn up there to visit. I understand that she is coming to terms with finding out her father wasnt her biological father and she had a mother who lied to her all these years who had just passed away and the huge deal of having two sisters. BUT she still seems a little unlikable to me!
When she comes to the village the sisters are so nice to her and try to include her as part of the family, even Maggie is nice which is a little bit of a stretch but Shannon is still very closed and refuses to let them into her heart.
Local boy Murphy who has known the family all of his life falls in love with her and she begins to let County Clare and her family into her heart and she starts to love everything. Its nice to see the change in her and how she chnages with a good dolop of passion and romance (not to mention the very saucy outdoor sex scene).
It was a nice way to end the trilogy and Nora has once again written a wonderful story of three different women with one similar and obvious connection.
My score 6/10
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
The Dream Trilogy by Nora Roberts
The Dream Trilogy by Nora Roberts consists of three books which follows 3 women. A similar patern to the Bride Quartet in the way that each book follows a woman and they all follow on from each other nicely.
Three women Margo, Kate and Laura who each have different backgrounds and very different stories who have come together because of one family and one ghost story.
Seraphina was a tragic story, she killed herself by jumping off of the cliff near to the Templeton home. There is a love story and mystery surrounding the tale and the three girls searched high and low to find Seraphinas idden treasure.
This story will bring them back together again as adults in this trilogy and how their lives have chnaged and the despite doing what they think as of the best when they were teenagers comes up and bites them in the ass as adults!
The books are called
Daring to Dream
Holding the Dream
Finding the Dream
Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts
Margo is a very fun character in this book and you cant help but love her. She is confident and strong and always gets what she wants. She is beautiful and knows it, knows how to use it and get what she wants.
Margo flirts with all and every man even Joshua, Lauras older brother who she secretly had a little crush on.
Margo was brought to Templeton estate with her mother, her mother is from Ireland and came to America and need work. She was employed as housekeeper by the Templetons and Margo was acepted as one of their own. As close as a sister to Laura. Along with Kate, Laura's cousin they became the best of friends and were taken in by the story of Seraphina and her lost treasure.
Each finding and holding a different meaning to the story.
Margo's mother in the book is very strict and tries to tame a very passionate girl which leads to Margo fleeing the town and heading for the fame and fortune.
She finds it of course and makes lots of money and travels the world.
An unfortunate event brings her back to the town where her family still live. She has no money and nowhere to go. They take her in and help her to rebuild her life once again.
Margo deals with loss and embaressment from her failing career and decides to open a business to sell all of her wonderful belongings.
Laura and Kate invest and they become partners.
The story is sad for Margo, you really feel for her and her mother appears to have no compassion for her and what she has been through.
Josh is secretly in love with her and tries to help her and his character is very loving but brutal at the same time. He understand Margo better than anyone and they eventually take a tumble in the sheets.
Margo is confused about how she feels for Josh so goes to the cliff to ask Seraphina for her advice. She finds a coin that dates back to Seraphina and she gets her answer.
The book has a lovely theme running that the women each have their own connection to the legend however it brings them all together. This books tells you a story of no matter how tough it can get your family and frieds are always there to help you and it can always get better, you just have to believe it.
A beautiful love story with Nora's unforgettable sex scenes that she is able to write so well.
Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts
Holding the dream is the second book in the trilogy and carries on fro Margo's story. Margo and Josh are married and happy and the three women are running the shop which is proving to be very sucessful.
Kate is an accountant and very good at her job.
She is so good that her life is all about her job and he has little time or effort for anything else.
She is constantly worried and chained to her desk in the hopes of becoming a partner in her firm.
The Templetons own a hotel and after Laura divorces her husband who ran it they employ a man to come in and run it.
Byron blew into town and was gorgeous and liked the look of Kate, he wanted her and set his mind to get her.
She was adamant she didint want a man and tried hard to not fall in love. Again asking for guidance from Seraphina Kate embarks on a journey to get her answers finding another coin similar to Margos. Leaving the mystery still unsolved.
A past history from her father and her current life in the accounts firm jeopardise her career and her life. Someone had set her up and she had to fight for her innocence.
The story is one of trying to get over the past and moving on, not letting the past dictate your future. The struggle between who you should be and who you are. Finding love and letting that rule all and just leet yourself go!
Finding the Dream by Nora Roberts
This is the last in the trilogy and again Nora completes the story and the mystery surrounding Seraphina and her lost treasure.
Laura is a mother of two girls and going through a rather nasty divorce of the man she fell in love with as a teenager. They married as soon as she was old enough and had children, he ran the business and she satyed at home to care for the children.
He cheated among other things and they divorced.
Michael came to stay at the estate, renting a stable and attached home to keep his horses which were his business and life.
He was rough and dangerous, scary and totally gorgeous (of course!) He immediately had a connection to Laura and they had an amazing time getting to know each other. He fell in love with the children and eventually with Laura.
She was scared and unwillling to let another man break her heart. Michael she thought was the type to do just that.
After much crazy feelings and arguments and running around she finally goes to the cliff to ask Seraphina for her guidance and a massive earth quake causes her to fall off of the cliff.
Michael saves her but not only does she find a coin, she finds the whole treasure. The three women together open the box and find Seraphinas secrets and finally understands why she killed herself.
Laura and Michael finally admit they are perfect for each other........
These three books were a brilliant read, i read them imediately after i read the bride quartet so was still engrossed in the romance of that story but i was able to get into this story so easily.
Nora grasps the concepts of people coming together from different backgrounds and how they each help each other get through their lives and troubles.
Nora ties in the mystery of Serapina so well and makes the book have an eerie supernatural feel to it.
Another brilliant read my score 6/10
Three women Margo, Kate and Laura who each have different backgrounds and very different stories who have come together because of one family and one ghost story.
Seraphina was a tragic story, she killed herself by jumping off of the cliff near to the Templeton home. There is a love story and mystery surrounding the tale and the three girls searched high and low to find Seraphinas idden treasure.
This story will bring them back together again as adults in this trilogy and how their lives have chnaged and the despite doing what they think as of the best when they were teenagers comes up and bites them in the ass as adults!
The books are called
Daring to Dream
Holding the Dream
Finding the Dream
Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts
Margo is a very fun character in this book and you cant help but love her. She is confident and strong and always gets what she wants. She is beautiful and knows it, knows how to use it and get what she wants.
Margo flirts with all and every man even Joshua, Lauras older brother who she secretly had a little crush on.
Margo was brought to Templeton estate with her mother, her mother is from Ireland and came to America and need work. She was employed as housekeeper by the Templetons and Margo was acepted as one of their own. As close as a sister to Laura. Along with Kate, Laura's cousin they became the best of friends and were taken in by the story of Seraphina and her lost treasure.
Each finding and holding a different meaning to the story.
Margo's mother in the book is very strict and tries to tame a very passionate girl which leads to Margo fleeing the town and heading for the fame and fortune.
She finds it of course and makes lots of money and travels the world.
An unfortunate event brings her back to the town where her family still live. She has no money and nowhere to go. They take her in and help her to rebuild her life once again.
Margo deals with loss and embaressment from her failing career and decides to open a business to sell all of her wonderful belongings.
Laura and Kate invest and they become partners.
The story is sad for Margo, you really feel for her and her mother appears to have no compassion for her and what she has been through.
Josh is secretly in love with her and tries to help her and his character is very loving but brutal at the same time. He understand Margo better than anyone and they eventually take a tumble in the sheets.
Margo is confused about how she feels for Josh so goes to the cliff to ask Seraphina for her advice. She finds a coin that dates back to Seraphina and she gets her answer.
The book has a lovely theme running that the women each have their own connection to the legend however it brings them all together. This books tells you a story of no matter how tough it can get your family and frieds are always there to help you and it can always get better, you just have to believe it.
A beautiful love story with Nora's unforgettable sex scenes that she is able to write so well.
Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts
Holding the dream is the second book in the trilogy and carries on fro Margo's story. Margo and Josh are married and happy and the three women are running the shop which is proving to be very sucessful.
Kate is an accountant and very good at her job.
She is so good that her life is all about her job and he has little time or effort for anything else.
She is constantly worried and chained to her desk in the hopes of becoming a partner in her firm.
The Templetons own a hotel and after Laura divorces her husband who ran it they employ a man to come in and run it.
Byron blew into town and was gorgeous and liked the look of Kate, he wanted her and set his mind to get her.
She was adamant she didint want a man and tried hard to not fall in love. Again asking for guidance from Seraphina Kate embarks on a journey to get her answers finding another coin similar to Margos. Leaving the mystery still unsolved.
A past history from her father and her current life in the accounts firm jeopardise her career and her life. Someone had set her up and she had to fight for her innocence.
The story is one of trying to get over the past and moving on, not letting the past dictate your future. The struggle between who you should be and who you are. Finding love and letting that rule all and just leet yourself go!
Finding the Dream by Nora Roberts
This is the last in the trilogy and again Nora completes the story and the mystery surrounding Seraphina and her lost treasure.
Laura is a mother of two girls and going through a rather nasty divorce of the man she fell in love with as a teenager. They married as soon as she was old enough and had children, he ran the business and she satyed at home to care for the children.
He cheated among other things and they divorced.
Michael came to stay at the estate, renting a stable and attached home to keep his horses which were his business and life.
He was rough and dangerous, scary and totally gorgeous (of course!) He immediately had a connection to Laura and they had an amazing time getting to know each other. He fell in love with the children and eventually with Laura.
She was scared and unwillling to let another man break her heart. Michael she thought was the type to do just that.
After much crazy feelings and arguments and running around she finally goes to the cliff to ask Seraphina for her guidance and a massive earth quake causes her to fall off of the cliff.
Michael saves her but not only does she find a coin, she finds the whole treasure. The three women together open the box and find Seraphinas secrets and finally understands why she killed herself.
Laura and Michael finally admit they are perfect for each other........
These three books were a brilliant read, i read them imediately after i read the bride quartet so was still engrossed in the romance of that story but i was able to get into this story so easily.
Nora grasps the concepts of people coming together from different backgrounds and how they each help each other get through their lives and troubles.
Nora ties in the mystery of Serapina so well and makes the book have an eerie supernatural feel to it.
Another brilliant read my score 6/10
The Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts
The Bride Quartet series was the first I read by Nora. My friend told me to read the Chesapeake Bay series but I am a huge wedding fan and love everything about them and felt I was drawn to these books.
There are four in the "Quartet" and they follow four women who are business partners and friends.
I fell in love with these books and to date they are still my favourite, i dont know if its because they were the first but i still love reading them inbetween reading other books.
The four women Mackenzie, Emmaline, Laurel and Parker are best friends and have been since they were in school. Now in their twenties and running a sucessful wedding business. As children they used to play wedding day and now as adults they are still playing wedding day but getting paid to do it.
Mackenzie is the photographer, Emmaline is the florist, Lauren is the baker and Parker is the planner/manager/organiser.
The four books follows thier lives and loves introducing some interesting scenes that will make you laugh and cry.
The story is very touching and touches on personal issues such as money and social class, friendship and what that means but most importantly true and passionate love.
These four books took me into the world of these four women and when i was reading the book i was the leading female, i felt what they felt, i cried when they cried and i believe that if a book can take me away and do that then its worth reading.
Nora captures the important issues in the book and takes ou into their world right from the beginning and you become lost in the story. As the books all lead on from each other when you put one down you want to go onto the next straight away and if you are lucky like me and have a kindle or ebook reader and you can download the books straight away!
The four books are titled as
Vision in White
Bed of Roses
Savour the Moment
Happy Ever After
So i will now going on to write about the books individually. If you havnt read the books yet and do not want the story spoilt then please dont read ahead!
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
Mackensie 'Mac' Elliot is a beautiful red head who is passioante about weddings and one part in particular the photos.
She is a wedding photographer and works in a Business called Vows with her three best friends and runs her studio on the Brown estate where she remembered growing up all those years ago.
Brown Estate belongs to her best friend and her brother Parker and Delaney and they had transformed the huge estate into the venue for wedding and events and Mac lived on the estate with her studio.
She loved being there and didnt think it could get any better.
Mac had a difficult childhood and her mother Linda was not really much of a mother. She loved her father very much but after the divorce he went off and got another family. He sent presents for birthdays and christmas though.
He gave her a camera which for her age was not appropriate and it was too heavy for her to hold bit she perservered particularily after she heard her mother slagging off her fathers gift and in one defining moment that runs a theme throughout the stories she had a blue butterfly moment.
A blue butterfly landed on the boquet when they were playing wedding day and she captured it on the camera and from that moment on she knew what her calling was.
Mac has an issue with commitment and settling down but she meets her biggest challenge yet.
Carter is an English Professor who has recently moved back to the town. His sister is using Vows wedding planning services to plan her own wedding and him having to accompany her to a meeting on the estate has him bumping into Mac (and a door frame!).
He had always loved her and never had the courage to talk to her when they were in school.
The story goes on to explore Mac and Carters relationship, hitting some major obstacles (on Macs side) and some amazingly romantic and emotional scenes. The sex scenes are so well written and do not leave much to the imagination but the way Nora writes them you almost feel what they feel! Believe me its hot and steamy!!
This book started my crazyness into reading Noras books and i am now obsessed which my husband thinks is nuts but i cannot get enough!
I read each of these books one after the other and completed the series in a couple of weeks.
This book is funny and sad all at the same time and it lets ou believe happy endings are there but sometimes you need to stop looking for them.
Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
This story which i have to say is my favourite in this series is about Emmaline Grant a very beautiful woman who has every man around her falling at her feet. She has an amazing family steeped in romance and love, friends she cares so much about and a job she absolutel 100% loves.
Emma is the florist in the Vows business and she has an unbelievable talent in being able to know what the bride really needs from her flowers.
She is a stunning woman and with her wild curly black hair and her big doe eyes and full lips any man would be a fool not to fall in love with her.
Emma wants love and romance and all the gooey stuff in between and wont settle for any less!
In cames Jack, Delaney Browns best friend and has been in the 'family' for years. He went to college with Del and Carter and has know the girls forever. He thinks of them as his sister and feels obligated to look out for them.
The only thing is he cant do that with Emma because for quite some time he has had feelings for her and has never acted on it because of what the others might say and Emma may not return the feelings.
He is a sucessful architect and has his own business, he is strong and very handsome. Women fall at his feet and he is often quite happy to pick them up! He has issues with commitment like Mac but his loving parents split up when he was young it has had a huge impact on him.
Emma has been having lusty feelings for Jack for some time now but doesnt think she can tell him. Little does the other know what they really feel for each other.
A chance meeting at a party leaves both of them thinking and feeling things about the other.
One night Jack comes to an event and decides what the hell and kisses Emma and then the madness ensues!!
Lots of sexy meetings and exciting times but when it comes down to love will Jack admit his feelings for Emma??
This book is by far my favourite out of the three and i am so in love with Jack which i think is the direction Nora was going. I wanted to be Emma and feel what she felt and do the things she was doing.
Again this book draws you into the life of the main character and has you feelinga and seeing what they do.
As with the first a happy ending is what we want and get and it flows wonderfully into the third book.
Savour the Moment by Nora Roberts
Lauren is a sucessfull baker and has trained all over the world, living in Paris for a while. When the Brown's died suddenly in a plane crash leaving her best friend Parker and her brother Delany with the estate to deal with she came home to be with them.
The business started and she stayed.
She loved her work and like her friends she was excellent at it.
Lauren was a beautiful blonde woman with wonderful legs, she was also a little firery and told you exactly how it was.
She was also completely and utterly in love with Delany Brown for as long as she can remember. She couldnt and wouldnt do anthing about it because he didint feel that way about her. Sure he loved her but like a sister.
She hated that.
One night she was feeling particularly prickily after numerous issues and she bit back at Del, leading to a whopper of a kiss.
Delany Brown is a conneticuit Brown and very sucessful lawyer. He was gorgeous and loved his life and his sisters which her affectionately referred to as 'The Quartet'.
He had never expected Lauren to act the way she did, he had known her for years but when she kissed him something stirred.
Lauren and Del's romance is funny and exciting, this one being a little ore emotional than the others i think and having a major aspect of class and money involved.
lauren comes from a poorer family and had a father who was unfaithful while Del has two wonderfully loving parents and a heck of a lot of money.
They came from two very different worlds yet somehow they were all part of the same family.
The book deals with the issue of class and how it can be percieved by some and how love overcomes everything that money and class throws in the way.
Savour the moment is a lovely book and Nora writes it very well, again the romance and sex is graphic and wonderful to read. The way she articulates the scenes are done so well so thqt it is not too saucy but saucy enough to keep the paegs flipping!!
Overall it is a great third book to the series and tells the ongoing story so well.
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
Happy Ever After is the final book in the series and it brings all of the books together and gives a finality to it.
Parker Brown is a very sucessful business woman, she runs the day to day issues of Vows and deals with the Brides every question and worry. She loves her job despite the 5am wake up calls from crazy brides!!
She is a polished woman who has her life so well organised she has no time for anything else.
Malcolm is a rough around the edges mechanic who owns his own business and has bumped lips with Parker a couple of times despite her obvious annoyance. He finds her interesting and wants to ruffel those very organised and tidy feathers.
She is not so keen to be ruffeled however Mal is appealing and sexy and very very handsome. Her total opposite but maybe perfect for her.
This book is my least favourite out of the three but i still completly loved it, Nora gives a closing to the story of the four women and it ends with the wedding of Mac and Carter. Its a perfect ending and one a lot of fans would be happy to see.
The four women all paired off with their perfect men and planning their own magical wedding days.
The Bride Quartet offers many laughs and cries and i enjoyed reading them so much. I imediately went online and bought another set of books to read as i couldnt get enough!
These books offer some interesting characters that are regulars throughout all of the books, even though it focuses on one woman each time the other three are always there, the men Carter, Jack, Del and Mal are although important in each of their own books they are really about the women and their journeys and a family.
Mrs G is a great character who pulls them all together and is almost like their mother giving the advice and support. In her own way she has helped each of the women and the men.
There is a great amount of comedy and fun in the books that can have you laughing out loud, the things that the four women say to each other can only come from true friends/sisters.
They are four touching stories and will leave you wanting more......
There are four in the "Quartet" and they follow four women who are business partners and friends.
I fell in love with these books and to date they are still my favourite, i dont know if its because they were the first but i still love reading them inbetween reading other books.
The four women Mackenzie, Emmaline, Laurel and Parker are best friends and have been since they were in school. Now in their twenties and running a sucessful wedding business. As children they used to play wedding day and now as adults they are still playing wedding day but getting paid to do it.
Mackenzie is the photographer, Emmaline is the florist, Lauren is the baker and Parker is the planner/manager/organiser.
The four books follows thier lives and loves introducing some interesting scenes that will make you laugh and cry.
The story is very touching and touches on personal issues such as money and social class, friendship and what that means but most importantly true and passionate love.
These four books took me into the world of these four women and when i was reading the book i was the leading female, i felt what they felt, i cried when they cried and i believe that if a book can take me away and do that then its worth reading.
Nora captures the important issues in the book and takes ou into their world right from the beginning and you become lost in the story. As the books all lead on from each other when you put one down you want to go onto the next straight away and if you are lucky like me and have a kindle or ebook reader and you can download the books straight away!
The four books are titled as
Vision in White
Bed of Roses
Savour the Moment
Happy Ever After
So i will now going on to write about the books individually. If you havnt read the books yet and do not want the story spoilt then please dont read ahead!
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
Mackensie 'Mac' Elliot is a beautiful red head who is passioante about weddings and one part in particular the photos.
She is a wedding photographer and works in a Business called Vows with her three best friends and runs her studio on the Brown estate where she remembered growing up all those years ago.
Brown Estate belongs to her best friend and her brother Parker and Delaney and they had transformed the huge estate into the venue for wedding and events and Mac lived on the estate with her studio.
She loved being there and didnt think it could get any better.
Mac had a difficult childhood and her mother Linda was not really much of a mother. She loved her father very much but after the divorce he went off and got another family. He sent presents for birthdays and christmas though.
He gave her a camera which for her age was not appropriate and it was too heavy for her to hold bit she perservered particularily after she heard her mother slagging off her fathers gift and in one defining moment that runs a theme throughout the stories she had a blue butterfly moment.
A blue butterfly landed on the boquet when they were playing wedding day and she captured it on the camera and from that moment on she knew what her calling was.
Mac has an issue with commitment and settling down but she meets her biggest challenge yet.
Carter is an English Professor who has recently moved back to the town. His sister is using Vows wedding planning services to plan her own wedding and him having to accompany her to a meeting on the estate has him bumping into Mac (and a door frame!).
He had always loved her and never had the courage to talk to her when they were in school.
The story goes on to explore Mac and Carters relationship, hitting some major obstacles (on Macs side) and some amazingly romantic and emotional scenes. The sex scenes are so well written and do not leave much to the imagination but the way Nora writes them you almost feel what they feel! Believe me its hot and steamy!!
This book started my crazyness into reading Noras books and i am now obsessed which my husband thinks is nuts but i cannot get enough!
I read each of these books one after the other and completed the series in a couple of weeks.
This book is funny and sad all at the same time and it lets ou believe happy endings are there but sometimes you need to stop looking for them.
Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
This story which i have to say is my favourite in this series is about Emmaline Grant a very beautiful woman who has every man around her falling at her feet. She has an amazing family steeped in romance and love, friends she cares so much about and a job she absolutel 100% loves.
Emma is the florist in the Vows business and she has an unbelievable talent in being able to know what the bride really needs from her flowers.
She is a stunning woman and with her wild curly black hair and her big doe eyes and full lips any man would be a fool not to fall in love with her.
Emma wants love and romance and all the gooey stuff in between and wont settle for any less!
In cames Jack, Delaney Browns best friend and has been in the 'family' for years. He went to college with Del and Carter and has know the girls forever. He thinks of them as his sister and feels obligated to look out for them.
The only thing is he cant do that with Emma because for quite some time he has had feelings for her and has never acted on it because of what the others might say and Emma may not return the feelings.
He is a sucessful architect and has his own business, he is strong and very handsome. Women fall at his feet and he is often quite happy to pick them up! He has issues with commitment like Mac but his loving parents split up when he was young it has had a huge impact on him.
Emma has been having lusty feelings for Jack for some time now but doesnt think she can tell him. Little does the other know what they really feel for each other.
A chance meeting at a party leaves both of them thinking and feeling things about the other.
One night Jack comes to an event and decides what the hell and kisses Emma and then the madness ensues!!
Lots of sexy meetings and exciting times but when it comes down to love will Jack admit his feelings for Emma??
This book is by far my favourite out of the three and i am so in love with Jack which i think is the direction Nora was going. I wanted to be Emma and feel what she felt and do the things she was doing.
Again this book draws you into the life of the main character and has you feelinga and seeing what they do.
As with the first a happy ending is what we want and get and it flows wonderfully into the third book.
Savour the Moment by Nora Roberts
Lauren is a sucessfull baker and has trained all over the world, living in Paris for a while. When the Brown's died suddenly in a plane crash leaving her best friend Parker and her brother Delany with the estate to deal with she came home to be with them.
The business started and she stayed.
She loved her work and like her friends she was excellent at it.
Lauren was a beautiful blonde woman with wonderful legs, she was also a little firery and told you exactly how it was.
She was also completely and utterly in love with Delany Brown for as long as she can remember. She couldnt and wouldnt do anthing about it because he didint feel that way about her. Sure he loved her but like a sister.
She hated that.
One night she was feeling particularly prickily after numerous issues and she bit back at Del, leading to a whopper of a kiss.
Delany Brown is a conneticuit Brown and very sucessful lawyer. He was gorgeous and loved his life and his sisters which her affectionately referred to as 'The Quartet'.
He had never expected Lauren to act the way she did, he had known her for years but when she kissed him something stirred.
Lauren and Del's romance is funny and exciting, this one being a little ore emotional than the others i think and having a major aspect of class and money involved.
lauren comes from a poorer family and had a father who was unfaithful while Del has two wonderfully loving parents and a heck of a lot of money.
They came from two very different worlds yet somehow they were all part of the same family.
The book deals with the issue of class and how it can be percieved by some and how love overcomes everything that money and class throws in the way.
Savour the moment is a lovely book and Nora writes it very well, again the romance and sex is graphic and wonderful to read. The way she articulates the scenes are done so well so thqt it is not too saucy but saucy enough to keep the paegs flipping!!
Overall it is a great third book to the series and tells the ongoing story so well.
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
Happy Ever After is the final book in the series and it brings all of the books together and gives a finality to it.
Parker Brown is a very sucessful business woman, she runs the day to day issues of Vows and deals with the Brides every question and worry. She loves her job despite the 5am wake up calls from crazy brides!!
She is a polished woman who has her life so well organised she has no time for anything else.
Malcolm is a rough around the edges mechanic who owns his own business and has bumped lips with Parker a couple of times despite her obvious annoyance. He finds her interesting and wants to ruffel those very organised and tidy feathers.
She is not so keen to be ruffeled however Mal is appealing and sexy and very very handsome. Her total opposite but maybe perfect for her.
This book is my least favourite out of the three but i still completly loved it, Nora gives a closing to the story of the four women and it ends with the wedding of Mac and Carter. Its a perfect ending and one a lot of fans would be happy to see.
The four women all paired off with their perfect men and planning their own magical wedding days.
The Bride Quartet offers many laughs and cries and i enjoyed reading them so much. I imediately went online and bought another set of books to read as i couldnt get enough!
These books offer some interesting characters that are regulars throughout all of the books, even though it focuses on one woman each time the other three are always there, the men Carter, Jack, Del and Mal are although important in each of their own books they are really about the women and their journeys and a family.
Mrs G is a great character who pulls them all together and is almost like their mother giving the advice and support. In her own way she has helped each of the women and the men.
There is a great amount of comedy and fun in the books that can have you laughing out loud, the things that the four women say to each other can only come from true friends/sisters.
They are four touching stories and will leave you wanting more......
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Huge fan!!
I am a huge Nora Roberts fan and until recently I hadn't read any of her books. My work colleague recommended I read them so I downloaded the first one on my kindle and I havnt stopped reading them!
I am a massive book worm anyway but now I am addicted! I have read 24 of her current list so far and I am now blogging about them.
As I was organising my new year book list I decided to write all of her books out in order and then read them one by one before the end of 2012.
Easy you say? Well there are over 200 books at the moment and she is still writing more!!!
I will do another blog soon to talk about the books I have already read and then go on to blog each time I finish a book.
I enjoy her books and want you to enjoy them as well. Nora has inspired me to also write a book which is finished but not quite ready to send to an agent.
So here we go and wish me luck!!!!
I am a massive book worm anyway but now I am addicted! I have read 24 of her current list so far and I am now blogging about them.
As I was organising my new year book list I decided to write all of her books out in order and then read them one by one before the end of 2012.
Easy you say? Well there are over 200 books at the moment and she is still writing more!!!
I will do another blog soon to talk about the books I have already read and then go on to blog each time I finish a book.
I enjoy her books and want you to enjoy them as well. Nora has inspired me to also write a book which is finished but not quite ready to send to an agent.
So here we go and wish me luck!!!!
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