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Morrigan's Cross (The Circle Trilogy, Book 1)
As a storm rages, the tale of a powerful vampire's lust for destruction-and of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan to stop her-begins. One of the chosen is a medieval sorcerer whose quest will take him through time-and into the arms of a woman courageous enough to link her destiny to his own.
Manufacturer: Jove Books
Price: $3.75
 Morrigan's Cross (The Circle Trilogy, Book 1)
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| User Reviews |  | Morrigan's Cross
rating: 5
Morrigan's Cross is the first in a three book series. This book has a little something for everyone--some mystery, some action, some romance. There are vampires, sorcerers, witches and a host of others. I was hooked into the book from the first chapter. I will continue to read this series.
Melissa
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Review of Audio CD
rating: 3
For those of us who listen to the Audio version, all three books in this Trilogy are read by the same narrator, which makes for good continuity. That said, I find fault with deep-voiced men who try to 'lighten up' to do the women's voices; it's very annoying. It makes the women seem shallow and childish. But Dick Hill did a great job with the general narrating and the men's voices, and overall I found the story to be engaging. An earlier reviewer stated that the major battle isn't until the third installment, but isn't that what we expect with a trilogy?
I do recommend this series to fans of Nora Roberts and those who enjoy the paranormal.
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could have been better
rating: 4
I don't know what it is, and heaven knows I've tried to figure it out, but I'm just not happy when Nora does paranormal. I read the reviews, hoping something will click, but either I'm the only one it affects this way, or nobody else can figure it out either. Or at least those who have, haven't written reviews explaining it. A lot of people put it down to just not liking paranormal. Click around here a little bit--you'll see nothing could be further from the truth.
Oh. Note to Publisher's Weekly: this isn't her first paranormal series. Not even close. There are the Donovans, the time travel duo, the 3 Sisters Island books, the Gallaghers, the Key trilogy, all those novellas in the Once Upon A... series, not to mention paranormal elements in the MacKades, Born in Shame, the Dream trilogy, the Night series (mmmm... Nemesis...), Carolina Moon, Midnight Bayou... and others I've forgotten to mention.
Anyway. Morrigan's Cross is the first book in a trilogy about a group of six who have to battle the ancient vampire Lilith and her demons, who are out to take over the world. "Morrigan" comes from the Celt goddess Morrigan, who appears to 12th-century sorceror Hoyt. He's angry and dismayed at his failure to save his twin brother Cian from being turned by Lilith, and she tasks him with putting together the group of 6 to defeat the vampires, first giving him the magical oomph to make the crosses that will protect his family, then whisking him away to the future, our present, New York.
There he meets his long-lost brother Cian and his right-hand man King, contemporary witch Glenna, Larkin & Moira from Gealle (another time, another place), and they begin training for the fight ahead.
There are some good scenes between the brothers, and Cian in particular is well-drawn. He's now over 900 years old, and it shows in his character. He'd said good-bye to his family centuries ago, and now here's his brother, his twin, offering love and asking for help.
There are also some amusing scenes as Hoyt comes to terms with the 21st century--in particular, the driving lessons.
But... It starts very slow. It starts back in the 12th century, and I found myself losing interest and skimming, waiting for the story to start. And Hoyt and Glenna as a couple seems more of a given than a romance. We're asked to just accept that because they've seen each other in dreams and they have similar magical powers, that they've fallen in love--we don't see it happen. Or I didn't.
And, as usual, the spells drove me nuts. Glenna's were the rhyming type where the rhythm doesn't always work--it drives me nuts. But Hoyt's were worse. They didn't rhyme, but they were long, and seemed like they ought to rhyme. I really, really wished that he'd just used single words or brief chants instead. The point was made, several times, that Hoyt's approach to magic was different from Glenna's, but the only difference in their spells were that hers rhymed and his didn't. Nails on the chalkboard, every time.
If you accept that Hoyt and Glenna are in love (and you pretty much have to, otherwise, you just spend the last half of the book complaining), their road to Happy-Ever-After-Land was good--they had some serious complications to overcome: they're in the middle of saving the world, and Hoyt's fully expecting to be whisked back to the 12th century afterward.
Other than Cian (and King), the secondary characters were fairly bland and uninteresting, and to tell you the truth, if it were any other author besides Nora, I'd be reconsidering reading the rest of the trilogy. A latecomer to the book, demon hunter Blair, showed promise, but Moira seemed mousy and ineffectual, and Larkin, the shapechanger, seemed mostly talented at blending into walls (not literally--I'm apparently still thinking about Nemesis). It's been explained to me that secondary characters, even ones who are supposed to star in their own future books, have to take a back seat, but, well, I disagree. Not if it makes me not want to read the next book. It's also been explained that they perk up in the next book, Dance of the Gods. I certainly hope so.
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My first ever Nora Roberts book, and I wasn't disappointed!
rating: 5
I have never before read a novel by Nora Roberts. I am 19 years old and my mother is a fan of her work. It never interested me to read the same books as my mom. However, since one of my roomates here at college talked me into it, I gave them a try. As a follow up to the Twilight Saga which was the last series I read, I was glad to be reading another book with vampires in it. But it went above and beyond vampires, incorporating witches, sorcerers, dragons, shape-shifters, a goddess, and time-travel. All these fantasy traits I loved, but it was the characters that made this trilogy such a success. I was hooked from the first book and read all three straight through. I only wish there was more! This trilogy did not leave me disappointed and has made me interested to see what else Nora Roberts may have to offer.
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Wizards, Vampires and Dragons oh my!
rating: 4
I am not a huge Nora Roberts fan but the concept of Vampire, wizards/witches and dragons good vs evil sounded like fun. And it was, she did a good job with the characters and the time travel seemed possible. It has a romance but not so much that it would be a romance novel I would put it more in the fantasy classification. I felt it was worth reading the rest of the trilogy
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