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Good book if you like Nora Robert's as an author you will love this book. Short not a lot of pages but good plott and storyline. Interesting book.
The first half of the book drug along at a snail's pace but (fortunately) it picked up in the latter half and moved much more quickly.This first of three vampire books involves time travel, romance and reminds me of "Twilight" for adults. It's predictable in a fun way when not wanting to tax my brain too much and wanting to be entertained. I typically love Nora Robert's trilogies when in the mood for "comfort" reading. I am not a huge vampire book fan though have read the occasionally. I typically read a book of this size in about two days but this one took me four. The reason being - it was not particularly interesting. This had some fun/interesting moments but much of it was all about the six main characters preparing for battle with the vampires wishing to wipe out mankind. A little more action and a little less preparation (and preparation and preparation) would have caught my interest and provided a better read.I bought all three of the books already so I will go ahead and read the next two, but at this point I'm fairly lukewarm about the series and hope it perks up.
But in this case it seems that the love story between Hoyt and Glenna got in the way of the bigger battle at foot. Her work is of course of the formulaic flavor but at the same time satisfying solid. The majority of the novel details the main characters lounging around Cian's Ireland home, reading, eating soup, doing katas., and above all Glenna and Hoyt's constant love making. I've only read her more realistically modern pieces up until now.
Her forced toughness fell flat with me as it seemed all she did was write checks with her mouth that her butt couldn't cash. I felt as though this book was a fluffy version of The Stand in some ways + romance. A lot of the same themes apply: Armageddon, battle vs good and evil, god or gods appointing a rag-tag resistance to save the world. Nora Roberts stuff is usually fun, if nothing else. I did really like Hoyt's character, but that may have been solely due to the fact that I kept imagining Gerard Butler in my head when he spoke, so who knows. It seemed a bit disproportionate.
Their actual skirmishes with the enemy were brief at best and spottily narrated. I had ALOT of problems with Glenna's character.
Nonetheless, the supporting characters are wholly more intriguing than the central folks, but I suppose that they are more focused on in the sequential novels of the trilogy.I suspect that Cian and Moira will have a romantic entanglement in the sequel, that will be a lot more interesting to see played out in comparison to that of Hoyt and Glenna's. This was the first fantasy Nora Roberts book that I had come in contact with.
She constantly touts her steely reserve while the first time she encounters Lilith her response is to run naked into Hoyt's bedroom for comforting. There are scenes devoted to what the characters are fighting, how they are going to do it, etc, but in a very general way.
I would have liked more exposition on Lilith and her "army" of evil. Her romantic development with Hoyt was predictable and uninteresting.
THIS NORA ROBERTS IS ENTHRALLING.SO DIFFERENT, WITH DRAGONS, WIZARDS, AND VAMPIRES. THE READER DOES A GREAT JOB OF KEEPING THE VOICES TRUE THROUGHOUT THE 3 BOOKS.
I was so incredibly pleased with this trilogy, that I think it is by far my favorite Nora Roberts trilogy. I don't like to go into details as to what the book is about because I think that the author can do that best on the back cover (and the summary posted here), but I can only tell you that it is a very creative trilogy. And maybe because of all of the vampire hype lately (yes, there is a vampire), I think it just made the series that much more enjoyable and current (even though it was written a while ago). Books like this remind me why I enjoy Nora Roberts' books so much.
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