Sunday, August 30, 2009

Vision in White


by Nora Roberts
Rating: 3.5
Series: The Bride Quartet
Format: romantic fiction
Reason for Reading: i love nora roberts

i admit it. i love nora roberts. it's my mom's fault. i don't know why this makes me feel embarrassed, but it does. maybe it's because i don't read romance novels. but i do read nora roberts. her books are like really good romantic comedies but in book form.

sure her format is the same: strong, female protagonist meets man, falls in love with man, is reluctant to admit it, eventually they wind up engaged. but there is so much more to it than that. her characters are so well-developed. they have layers, quirks. they are three-dimensional. they are dynamic.

there are several ways to spin a story within this format and i, personally, don't get tired of it. when i finish a tale by nora roberts, i am thoroughly satisfied after i turn the last page. i always know it is going to be a several hour affair because i can not put her books down. i either read all day or stay up all night. her stories are that engaging.

in her newest trilogy, scratch that, this one's a quartet, mackensie is a successful wedding photographer. she and her three best friends since childhood have created a thriving, successful wedding planning business.

mac is smart and good at what she does. however, she is extremely emotionally guarded, having grown up with an absentee father and an emotionally manipulative, neglectful and self-destructive mom.

mac's world turns upside down when she meets carter maguire.

and so the delicious reading adventure begins. . .

1 comments:

bran_muffin said...

I'm like you when it comes to romance novels; I didn't think I could ever waste my time with them but that was before I read Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series. This series is by far the best series I have ever read. It begins with Dark Fever followed by Blood Fever, Fae Fever, Dream Fever and yet to be released, Shadow Fever. She writes paranormal romances based in Scotland and Ireland and makes you feel like you aren't reading but that you are experiencing every emotion, tragedy and moment in each of her characters lives. I give this series a 5.0!