The Awakening

I'll reserve judgement on this series until I finish but for now I'm underwhelmed. We have a lot of typical Nora Roberts ingredients: Ireland, witchcraft, beautiful woman unaware of her powers, and a purely eeeeevil bad guy. Just because a story has tropes doesn't mean it isn't good, and Roberts is still one of best pure storytellers around. So I kept turning the pages and enjoyed the experience. Not sure I'm a big fan of either the alpha hero Keegan or the cliched gay best friend Mario, but there are still two books remaining to give them more depth and perhaps even some nuance. I don't think this will be as interesting a trilogy as [b:Year One 34311452 Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1) Nora Roberts https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1488360073l/34311452.SY75.jpg 55367060] and its sequels, but you could do a lot worse during a pandemic than read about beautiful Irish fantasy worlds with dragons, elves, and loyal dogs.