Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Amy - Sep 27, 2006 9:35:37 am PDT #1263 of 28135
Because books.

Oh, I loved the flower series! Loved the ghost bride, and I *did* love the second book best -- the heroine was so strong, and so sure of herself, and yet wanted love so much.

I haven't picked up Morrigan's Cross yet, but I just finished the Born In series, which I adored, and had saved for a rainy day.


Kathy A - Sep 27, 2006 9:42:28 am PDT #1264 of 28135
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The Born In series and the Chesapeake series (leaving that last followup book out of it) are my two favorite of her trilogies. For her magical themed books, I liked the trilogy set on the Maine island with the three witches. My favorite of her Silhouette books (outside of the Macgregor books, which are on a different level IMO) is the McKade series, with the four brothers living in the little town near the Antietam battleground with the really well-written ghost story NR created for the books.


Amy - Sep 27, 2006 9:46:28 am PDT #1265 of 28135
Because books.

I loved the Chesapeake series, too, and did not read the final one. It was Seth all grown up, right?

Loved the Three Sisters Island trilogy, too. She did the whole witchcraft thing really well. I didn't love the Keys series -- I didn't make it through the second book, and I never got the third. I don't think I've ever read her Silhouette stuff, and I've only read a handful of her single titles. For whatever reason, her trilogies are usually it for me.


Aims - Sep 27, 2006 9:47:38 am PDT #1266 of 28135
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I love all of her trilogies. It's hard for me to rate them, I love them all so much.

My favoritest book of her is "Public Secrets".


Connie Neil - Sep 27, 2006 9:51:17 am PDT #1267 of 28135
brillig

Would I find Nora Roberts in the general section of the library or the romance section? Or both?


Atropa - Sep 27, 2006 9:52:24 am PDT #1268 of 28135
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

but I get kind of skeptical when it comes to vampire romance.

Considering my past bad experiences with vampire romance novels, plus the fact that I've never read any Nora Roberts, should I even bother finding Morrigan's Cross?


Aims - Sep 27, 2006 9:58:19 am PDT #1269 of 28135
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Jilli, it depends on how you like your vampire romance.


Amy - Sep 27, 2006 9:58:33 am PDT #1270 of 28135
Because books.

Nora is shelved in romance in most bookstores, Connie.

My favoritest book of her is "Public Secrets".

Haven't read that one yet.

I hesitated to pick up Morrigan's Cross because ... well, because I have so many books I haven't read yet, for one, but also because I wasn't sure how I was going to like the "group" dynamic of the book (gleaned from skimming, could be wrong) and the fact that a lot of it seems to be set in the past. But I will pick it up eventually.

I love the way they schedule the trilogy releases so close together. No waiting for the impatient!


Kathy A - Sep 27, 2006 10:00:24 am PDT #1271 of 28135
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Definitely romance.

I also love Public Secrets--starting it in the midst of the British music scene of the 1960s was a great idea on her part. The other standalones that I love are Montana Sky (which is being filmed for Lifetime--I hope it's better than the egregiously bad adaptation Hallmark did of Julie Garwood's For the Roses), Three Fates (the sinking of the Lusitania in the prologue was very well written indeed), and the one set in the TV daytime talk show world whose title I can't recall offhand (and trying to navigate NR's Amazon bibliography will take days, if not years, to get the right title).


Aims - Sep 27, 2006 10:03:28 am PDT #1272 of 28135
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I need Three Fates.

And isn't there a new "In Death" installment?