Sci-Fi & Scary

I’m no stranger to Nora Roberts. She’s one of the few romance authors that can still tempt me into picking up one of her books. She writes primarily ‘normal’ romance, with a side of futuristic hard-nose cop (under the pseudonym J.D Robb). However, every once in a while, she comes out with a trilogy that is decidedly ‘magick’ infused, albeit set in modern day. I’ve always enjoyed those, so I wanted to see what she would do with a post-apocalyptic setting in Year One. I was hoping that she would push her boundaries and give us something on the scale that a writer of Roberts’ talent is capable of when she tries.

Year One was both delighting and disappointing. I feel like Roberts skipped where she should have lingered, and lingered where she should have skipped in a few places. The whole book begins with the development and spread of this virus that eliminates a huge amount of the world’s population, and in the aftermath, the survivors find that some of them are… different. And you can only imagine how it must have been for the majority of these people to find out that they suddenly had powers that they’ve never had before. We know it was hard – we know that some accepted, and some went nuts. And we know some are good, and some are evil. But that’s pretty much it. She went straight from “Look! Everyone’s dying” to “Faeries! Elves! and Wizards!”

Seriously?

I still liked it, though.

Click here to see the full review on Sci-Fi & Scary