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