The MacGregors: Robert - Cybil - Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts in general

undisputed queen of the romance novel. She certainly seems to be the yardstick by which other writers of romantic fiction are compared. Like many writers of romantic fiction, Nora Roberts honed her writing skills in the early 1980s in the field of category romance. Category romances are those shorter novels published by the likes of Silhouette and Mills & Boon. Many readers of romance seem to be quite snobby about Silhouette and Mills & Boon so have missed out on many of Nora Roberts excellent earlier books. It was whilst writing in this sub-genre that she introduced the reading public to one of her more famous families, the MacGregors. Strangely, ...

Carnal Innocence - Nora Roberts

I enjoyed it. Nora Roberts seemed to capture the pace of the South and she wrote an incredibly charming lead in Tucker. Tucker Longstreet is one of the most charming, likeable, sympathetic heroes in the history of romance fiction. Caroline was also a pretty good character but she was less fully developed than Tucker and even a ...

Tears of the Moon - Nora Roberts

I am a big fan of Nora Roberts. Tears of the Moon is the second book in the Irish trilogy. It's funny and romantic book I couldn't put down. Brenna and Shawn were the odd couple that loved each other long before they knew it. Brenna is a strong and independent woman who doesn't have a problem with getting down and dirty. She is a person with character who is not affraid to take the lead. Shawn, on the other hand, is a poet who creates beautiful music. He is underestimated with having no common sense but as the story develops Shawn proves everybody wrong. Besides the struggle that both Brenna and Shawn put up in accepting that they were meant for each other, ...