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Summary: Excellent.
Review: This was a satisfying and well-written ending to the 'Three Sisters Island' Trilogy. Mia, being probably the most intriguing of the three Sisters, had the most intriguing and mature romance. I liked the fact that no excuses were made for the hero's stupidity as a boy - he did it and he regretted it, but nothing can change it, just like in real life. I also liked the fact that Mia did not collapse into Sam's arms and forgive him the second he deigned to offer her some attention. After all, in real life, even when we can understand a person's actions that does not mean we can forget the pain they have caused us. On top of the romance, there was also a delightful feeling of menace in this book that was lacking in the other two - I found the wolf a very nice touch. It was slightly reminiscent of 'Ceremony in Death', and again, added an unusual twist to the story. There was only one problem for me with this book, and it is the same one which plagued the other two in the trilogy - the way that Ms Roberts couched all the spells in rhyming form. There were several points where an otherwise eerie or poignant scene was robbed of its teeth by the painfully bad poetry: "Now you taste the fear most dire, as you face my righteous fire." Yuck, Yuck, Yuck. Apart from this, the book was very enjoyable and a fitting finale to the trilogy. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Great paranormal romance
Review: Ten years ago Sam Logan fled Three Sisters Island off the Massachusetts coast for the mainland. He left behind a devastated Mia Devlin, who loved Sam with every cell in her body. She thought forever, but he could not wait to escape the island. Now Sam is back and his goal is to regain what he threw away in his youth. He wants Mia permanently in his life. However, she has made a new life for herself that includes running her bookstore and excludes her good neighbor Sam. He begins his campaign even as Mia faces a deadlier test than her two modern witch sisters have recently undergone. Mia, with the love of fellow witch Sam, can thwart the curse only if she trusts him with her heart and soul. However, if he deserts her again she doubts she could recover; giving in to the curse sounds safer. After two powerful Three Sisters Island romances Nora Roberts had to FACE THE FIRE of providing a stand alone tale that readers would rank on a par with its predecessors and tie up the loose ends from the previous novels. Ms. Roberts succeeds providing her audience with one of the top sub-genre books of the year. The story line deftly combines a classic romance theme with a supernatural spin into a potent witch's brew. Mia and Sam are dynamite characters that the audience will appreciate and the return of the lead protagonists from the previous tales insures the curse comes full circle. Ms. Roberts stands at the pinnacle of writers as she once again provides readers with the best. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: I really like Nora Roberts and I've enjoyed this series a lot. However, I thought that Mia deserved a better story than this. She was the most intriguing of the 3 women in this trilogy and the romance was a little flat. I thought Sam should have been a bit more desperate & not so sure of himself!
It was a good read overall, but somewhat anticlimatic. She's fire, there should have been more sparks!
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Summary: Ending a little flat but otherwise great book
Review: I always found Mia to be the most interesting of the three and was looking forward to her book. Most of the story doesn't disappoint, her and Sam have great chemistry and with their history together it adds interesting elements. Nell, Ripley & their husbands are all an integral part of the story and it was good to "see" them again. The book moves along at a very fast pace, which is why I suppose I found the ending a little lacking, with so much build up I was expecting a bit more during the final confrontation with the darkness threatening the island. You are given signs about the strength of Mia's power and I was expecting it to be used a bit more for the climax. While the ending did fizzle a bit, the book was still a great read and I recommend it.
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Summary: This Fire seemed to Fizzle
Review: As an absolutely devout Roberts fan, I'm sorry to say that this novel did not in any way live up to my expectations. The beginning of this series was wonderful, but by page 20 of this novel, I felt the story was already over, and more importantly, the romance was gone. For the first time I was more interested in the marriages that had already taken place than in the current romantic focus. How droll! I thought the theory that Mia's fate was to reject Sam and except that separation was interesting... and reinforced so thoroughly by her AWFUL and shallow behavior, that by the end I'd hoped it was true. Her stubbord independence, normally charming in Roberts' romantic females, was so absolute and unyeilding that by the end of the novel I wished she'd jump off the cliff and save all of her friends a lifetime of watching after her and struggling to understand her "mystic" ways. And as for the Wiccan influences... it was an interesting premise in the first two novels and, having once practiced, I thought fairly reverent and honest. The magick in this book, however, was so grand and so precocious, I felt at times that I might as well be reading Harry Potter - and at least they had learned spells to recite and not just quippy little rhymes that they just HAPPENED to come up with at a moment's notice! I am still a big Roberts fan and would tell any would be reader to skip this series in favor of any of her Irish novels, especially her Born in Fire, Born in Ice, Born in Shame series. It's in those straight forward romances that Roberts shows some true magic - not in the hocus pocus of this deflated story.
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Summary: FACE THE FIRE
Review: THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF THE THREE SISTERS TRILOGY IS FINALLY HERE.IN THE STORY RESIDENT WITCHES:NELL,RIPLEY AND MIA MUST FACE THE FINAL HURTLE TO BREAK THE CENTURIES OLD CURSE BESTOWED ON THEM BY THE ELEMENTAL FOREWITCHES AIR ,EARTH AND FIRE..IT HAS ALL COME DOWN TO MIA DEVELIN TO EITHER BREAK THE CURSE OR ALL THEY HOLD DEAR WILL BE DESTROYED..ENTER THE PROTAGNIST AND LOVE INTEREST SAM WHO AFTER AN 11 YEAR SELF IMPOSED EXILE HAS COME BACK TO THREE SISTERS TO TAKE BACK WHAT IS HIS AND ALSO MANAGE A HOTEL THAT ONCE BELONGED TO HIS FATHER...AND WE LEARN THAT HIS 11 YEAR EXILE WAS NOT WITHOUT HEARTBREAK..MIX THE TIRED BUT TRUE ILL FATED THEN FATED ROMANCE WITH A COUPLE OF SURPRISES AND YOU HAVE WOVE A SPELL OF INTRIGUE.I THOUGHT SAM WAS DASHING ,NELL WAS MEEK,RIPLEY BRASH, AND MIA UNDERDEVELOPED WITH A COMPLETE 360 IN CHARACTER...MIX THAT WITH ZACH THE LOVABLE LUMP,MAC THE GEEK AND LULU THE SURRAGATE HIPPIE MOTHER TO MIA AND YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD BOOK NOT INCREDIBLE BUT A FINE READ...I HOPE SHE DECIDES THAT MAYBE IN A FEW YEARS READERS WOULD LIKE TO VISIT THE ISLAND AGAIN AND REAQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH EARTH,AIR AND FIRE...
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Summary: Very powerful
Review: I loved this book. I finished the series and I am sad it is over. This was the most powerful of all the Three Sisters books. I was moved in every way imaginable. Nora Roberts has a very strong talent to write and write well. I have read a variety of her books and I have loved them all, but I have to say that this one was my favorite. I will read it again and again and again...
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Summary: I just love Three Sisters Island ....
Review: This wasn't my favorite of the three in this series -- but it was still a great book. I didn't care for the "wolf" manifestation of evil - because it wasn't quite tangible enough for me, as a reader, to really fear for Mia & Company. I love Mia's character ... and Sam Logan was a great addition to the group. Ms. Roberts writes really good stories revolving around magic & the supernatural -- always enjoyable.
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Summary: Face the Fire exceptional Book
Review: Nora Roberts is one of my favorite authors and she did it again with the creation of these charecters. This book had the right amount of romance, drama and action. I was sorry when I came to the last page. What I would love to happen now is for Nora to take these charecters about 20 years into the future to see what happened to our favorite witches. Nora keep up the good work!
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Summary: ANYONE GOT CLIFF NOTES?
Review: THE FIRST OF THE TRILOGY WAS THE BEST, AND YOU CAN'T READ THE THIRD WITHOUT READING THE FIRST, SO STRIKE ONE. READING THIS ONE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL BRIT LIT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND BEOWULF. I COULD USE SOME CLIFF NOTES. VERY LITTLE STORY, JUST A BUNCH OF WORDS STRUNG TOGETHER, STRIKE TWO. THE RIPLEY CHARACTER STILL REMAINS ABRASIVE AND ANNOYING AND I GOT BORED WITH THAT....STRIKE THREE.
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