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I will read the next book in the series to see what happens. It is a serviceable book with highs and lows and is very readable. That’s ok not everything is going to be a shining star. Nora Roberts is a master storyteller, but this isn’t her best work. Where are my Arlys, Fred and Jonah? She should have at least nodded her head at them and told us a little of what was going on. Maybe I was just slightly miffed at that. The ones that I really liked and thought were interesting got unceremoniously excised from the last act of the novel which was a weird pacing and story arc thing to do. I didn’t give a damn about the characters at the end. It was all so bland and wrapped up in a neat little bow. I am going to speak in broad terms so as not to do any spoilers, but I spent 75 pages scratching my head. I have never read a novel that jarred me like a car accident from one vignette to another. Why are the ones that are vapid come from out of nowhere and give so much page time? Also, the pacing and plot arcs are jarring as hell. She has some well-written ones in there that are fleshed out, and some that are flat as a board (I am looking at you Eric and Allegra) and you scratch your head wondering what the hell. I may not have liked what the characters were saying, but she is damn good at writing it.Ĭharacter-wise, it is just damn confusing. It may be a little schmaltzy, but it flows like people talk.

Nora Roberts knows how to write good dialog. The second observation is also a positive one. Otherwise, niggling questions remain and throw the reader’s mind out of the story. Plot points like these that lay the foundation in novels, in my opinion, need to be rock solid. Some people get nothing at all and remain human.

Otherwords, some people get big woo-woo, others not so much. In response to these increasing darkness and sickness infecting, a reaction in people with any spiritual and/or magical is that the latent power these people had increased exponentially. The disease is itself named “Doom,” and is made of these dark energies escaping and infecting the world. The thrilling thing is that the epidemic is based on lore mythology and magic. World plague that decimates human the population. The entire novel rests on an interesting, if not a slightly trite premise.

Except for “The Road” which I won’t touch with a ten-foot stick. I also have read pretty much all the post-apocalyptic books I can get my hands on. She writes great characters and exciting plots. For a while there I was plowing through them. First off, I have read close to thirty of her books. I was very excited to read Year One by Nora Roberts.