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| Morrigan's Cross (The Circle Trilogy, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 9165
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1
ISBN: 0515141658
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515141658
ASIN: 0515141658
Publication Date: August 29, 2006
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Condition: Book in good shape, some wear. Ships within 24 hours of purchase
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Product Description
As a storm rages, the tale of a powerful vampire's lust for destruction-and of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan to stop her-begins. One of the chosen is a medieval sorcerer whose quest will take him through time-and into the arms of a woman courageous enough to link her destiny to his own.
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 Tired, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal! September 8, 2006
66 out of 96 found this review helpful
I love Nora. I have everything she's ever written, and I re-read my favorites regularly. However, some of her early stuff is BAD. No character development, people who fall in love immediately and get married in 2 weeks, that kind of garbage. I think maybe she wrote this book in 1982 and put it in a file someplace because it was too bad to publish. Now that she's superstar, she could sneeze on a page, print it, and sell 100 million copies.
Starting with the recent "Key" trilogy and continuing on here in Morrigan's Cross, Nora has either fallen back on those old habits, or just ceased to care about the quality of her romance novels. I suspect the latter, because the JD Robb "In Death" books are still great.
"Morrigan's Cross" is totally insipid. Every character and plot-line is borrowed from someplace else where it was done better. I really had a hard time even finishing it.
I wish Nora would go back to writing about people in more realistic situations. She's not good at this type of fantasy.
[And as a side note, I'm sure the real Morrigan, who is a kick-butt Irish battle goddess, would impale "The Six" on spears and then dance naked around their bleeding corpses!]
 Yes she can write fantasy too! August 30, 2006
20 out of 27 found this review helpful
I am delighted by Nora Roberts's foray into the fantasy/vampire subgenre. She has crafted a wonderful world of witches, wizards, warriors, and magic borrowing deeply from Irish mythology, classic vampire tales, and her own fertile imagination. Yet she doesn't abandon her romance roots in the process. Although the book is first and foremost fantasy, the romance between Glenna and Hoyt remained central to the storyline throughout.
This is a great book, so why only four stars?
Well, the action is fast-paced, but I never really felt gripped by tension or excitement as I was reading the various battle scenes. The plot of this book is fairly predictable (the cover tells us the chosen six will come together and they do) but forgivable as this is a set up book for the rest of the trilogy. And there were a few times when characters acted differently than they probably should have for the sake of moving the plot. But that's about it for the criticisms.
I really have no trouble recommending this to anyone who enjoys fantasy romances. While I can't judge an entire trilogy by the first book, it looks like this one is going to be a good one. I love the plot, I love the characters, and of course I love the author. I'm looking forward to the next two.
Not her best, but good September 18, 2006
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
First book in Roberts' new Circle Trilogy, we enter the world of ancient Celtic magic and vampires. When his twin brother is made into a vampire, powerful sorcerer Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is sent on a quest by the goddess Morrigan, to save the world from vampires - but not in his own time. He is to find Cian, his brother, and form a band of 6 warriors to start the war against Lilith, the vampire who turned Cian. Glenna is the witch in the group, and they are then joined by two cousins from Gael who were victims of vampires in their own world. They travel back to Ireland, present day, to prepare for the coming battle, in the Mac Cionaoith ancestral home which Cian has bought and maintained. The circle of six is completed there, and the magic between Hoyt and Glenna is more than just out of this world. I kind of had a hard time with Roberts' writing this type of magic - I am more accustomed to her other type of paranormal abilities, and vampires didn't quite sit with me. Other than that it is a genuinely interesting story with a lot of humor and action.
Rubbish September 18, 2006
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have already cancelled my order for the second book in this trilogy. I don't know what else to say except the whole book is trash. Nora Roberts has always been one of my favorites, but this book has no direction - nothing to hold your interest. I felt this from the first page of the book and kept thinking it would get better - it didn't. What a shame.
 Formulaic August 29, 2006
15 out of 26 found this review helpful
After hearing glowing reviewers from readers of the same genre of Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, I picked up a copy of Morrigan's Cross to give it a try. Each one of the characters seemed to be a combination of main characters from other author's books. A very good compliment to other writers, but irritating when spending $7.99 for a paperback.
It's kind of a polygot of Celtic war story meets vampire meets urban fantasy. Without giving much of the plot away, we have an uppity/angsty vampire (Ivy Tamwood/Lestat/Asher cross), a way-too serious sorcerer (Harry Dresden meets Gandalf meets the druid dude from Terry Brooks first Shanara series), a witch who is smart-sexy (Rachel Mariana Morgan down to the red hair), a shapeshifter (LKH's Richard without the pathos and with a sword and an extra shape or two), and a queen to be who would rather read a book than fight a vampire (this character had elements of bunches of other characters too numerous to mention.) Huh...I think I have met all these characters before. And when the last character shows up, all I could think of was early Anita Blake meets the chick from Underworld or from Van Helsing.
The storyline is predictable, the characters were the same. At times, I had a hard time wrapping my mind around some of the sentence structures. It was like the sentences were delibrately re-worked to cut back on the word count.
Will I read the other two? Yeah, probably, but I probably won't pay full-price for them.
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