 - 4 Star Rating
I must admit that Heaven and Earth was the first Nora Roberts book I had read or listened to. Boy, what was I thinking?! Roberts is a wonderful author who very carefully constructs and builds each character to the point you feel like you personally know them and their family along with all their character traits and idiosyncrasies.
The other thing I truly like about Nora Roberts’ writing style is that she offers a complete stand alone novel for the once in a while reader, while intricately weaving each novel into a themed series to be read one after the other for the more serious book lover.
Heaven and Earth is the second novel in the Three Sisters Island series. History has it that Three Sisters Island was created long, long ago by witches for witches when all of the Salem witch hunts and massacres were occurring.
Each of the main characters have so much personality and carry so much weight, it would be hard to name the stand-out or favorite. However, I think my choice would be Mac. He was kind, down-to-earth, highly intuitive, and a bit on the nerdy side. He loved researching the super-natural and recording as much of it in real life as he could. He played a big part in the way the end came about for Ripley Todd, the deputy sheriff of Three Sister’s Island.
Ripley was a high-strung, smart-mouth sort of woman who liked to have her own way on her own terms. She had never loved a man before and Mac swept her off her feet before she had even known what happened. Unfortunately, in the cards, and in her dreams, she always wound up hurting the one she loved. She was mortified it would happen in real life.
Mia is the strong, silent one who once had her heart broken and has closed all of those doors seemingly forever. She runs a successful bookstore on Three Sisters Island and is quite happy doing that and continually working with the powers bestowed upon her.
Nell Todd is the charming, down-home, loving wife of the sheriff on Three Sisters Island and sister-in-law to Ripley. Nell had a long and twisted background before arriving at Three Sisters Island. However, what she had went through previously ended up making her the strongest of the three.
It took all the love, power, and soul that the three had to endure what fate had set before them. Luckily Mac also provided some much needed insight and support himself, although he wasn’t officially bestowed with his own powers.
I will admit I was skeptical in the beginning about listening to this book. However, within just a few minutes I found myself intrigued with the characters and before long, I was totally wrapped up in the thick of it and couldn’t wait until I could listen to the next chapter. Even though the book can easily stand on its own, now that I know Dance Upon the Air was the first in the series, I wished I would have started with it.
Author : Nora Roberts
Narrator : Sandra Burr
Publisher : Brilliance Audio Inc
Length : 10 hours 4 minutes
Type : Romance
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
$24.95
Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them - which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her-and though she tries hard to hide them, she can't get them under control...
Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister Booke - a researcher who's come to investigate the rumors of witchcraft that haunt Three Sisters Island. Right from the start, he knows there's something extraordinary about Ripley Todd. It's not just her blazing green eyes and her sultry smile. There's something else. Something he can detect, but she'll never admit. Fascinated by her struggle with her amazing abilities, he becomes determined to help her accept who she is - and find the courage to open her heart.
But before Ripley and Mac can dream of what lies in the future, they must confront the pain of the past. For Three Sisters shelters centuries of secrets-and a legacy of danger that plagues them still....
"A storytelling wizard." -Publishers Weekly
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