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Of Blood and Bone
- Chronicles of The One, Book 2
- Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
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Year One
- Chronicles of The One, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
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It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.
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- Écrit par Trudy Bolduc le 2017-12-18
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place.
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The Awakening
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When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she’s an anxious 20-something mired in student debt and working a job she hates. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: Her mother has been hiding an investment account in her name. It has been funded by her long-lost father - and it’s worth nearly four million dollars.
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Enjoyed
- Écrit par Debra Herold le 2020-12-03
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Dark Witch
- The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Katherine Kellgren
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With indifferent parents, Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: a land of lush forests, dazzling lakes, and centuries-old legends. Ireland. County Mayo, to be exact. Where her ancestors’ blood and magic have flowed through generations - and where her destiny awaits.
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Easy listening!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Stars of Fortune
- Guardians Trilogy, Book 1
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To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces....
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I skipped forward more and more toward the end
- Écrit par threenorns le 2019-01-15
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Morrigan's Cross
- Circle Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
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Standing on the cliffs of 12th-century Ireland following the disappearance of his twin, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with the ultimate of tasks: saving his and all future worlds. His enemy, the beautiful but deadly vampire queen Lilith, has had over 2,000 years of experience in cruelly killing and changing humans into one of her own - including Hoyt's brother, Cian.
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one of my favorite books
- Écrit par Little t Matthews le 2018-09-13
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Year One
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It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.
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- Écrit par Trudy Bolduc le 2017-12-18
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Year One
- Chronicles of The One, Book 1
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It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place.
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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The Awakening
- The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 1
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- Narrateur(s): Barrie Kreinik
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When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she’s an anxious 20-something mired in student debt and working a job she hates. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: Her mother has been hiding an investment account in her name. It has been funded by her long-lost father - and it’s worth nearly four million dollars.
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Enjoyed
- Écrit par Debra Herold le 2020-12-03
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Dark Witch
- The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Katherine Kellgren
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With indifferent parents, Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: a land of lush forests, dazzling lakes, and centuries-old legends. Ireland. County Mayo, to be exact. Where her ancestors’ blood and magic have flowed through generations - and where her destiny awaits.
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Easy listening!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Stars of Fortune
- Guardians Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Saskia Maarleveld
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Histoire
To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces....
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I skipped forward more and more toward the end
- Écrit par threenorns le 2019-01-15
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Morrigan's Cross
- Circle Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
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Histoire
Standing on the cliffs of 12th-century Ireland following the disappearance of his twin, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with the ultimate of tasks: saving his and all future worlds. His enemy, the beautiful but deadly vampire queen Lilith, has had over 2,000 years of experience in cruelly killing and changing humans into one of her own - including Hoyt's brother, Cian.
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one of my favorite books
- Écrit par Little t Matthews le 2018-09-13
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Dance Upon the Air
- Three Sisters Island Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Sandra Burr
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When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband - and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago. Just as Nell starts to wonder if she'll ever be able to break free of her fear, she realizes that the island suffers from a terrible curse - one that can only be broken by the descendants of the Three Sisters, the witches who settled the island back in 1692.
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I read this book once a year
- Écrit par Chudz le 2022-12-03
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Shelter in Place
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- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
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It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video game store tended to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. But for those who lived through it, the effects would last forever.
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Utterly incredible
- Écrit par Georgina le 2018-10-19
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Jewels of the Sun
- Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Patricia Daniels
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Determined to reevaluate her life, Jude Murray flees America to take refuge in Faerie Hill Cottage, immersing herself in the study of Irish folklore and discovering hope for the future of the magical past. Finally back home in Ireland after years of traveling, Aidan Gallagher possesses an uncommon understanding of his country’s haunting myths.
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Narrator sucks
- Écrit par Juliette S. le 2019-03-14
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Under Currents
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
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Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers and even Zane’s own aunt across the lake see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Only Zane and his sister know the truth, until one brutal night finally reveals cracks in the facade, and Zane escapes for college without a thought of looking back....
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it was amazing!
- Écrit par Liz le 2019-08-10
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Blue Dahlia
- In the Garden, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Susie Breck
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Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee - and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn't intimidated by the house - nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper.
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Motherhood and Gardening
- Écrit par Morgan Hrynkow le 2021-03-24
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Key of Light
- Key Trilogy, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Susan Ericksen
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The Malory Price Life Plan does not include a quixotic quest - but the strangers on Warrior's Peak claim that she must find a key that will release three souls held captive by an evil god.
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Just Average
- Écrit par Georgina le 2022-04-25
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The Liar
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- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
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Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions.... The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn’t just dead. He never really existed. Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff Lott, a successful contractor.
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Outstanding story and narration!
- Écrit par Jeanie Marie le 2019-02-01
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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The Perfect Hope
- Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): MacLeod Andrews
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Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out - with a tough-as-nails outside and possibly nothing too soft underneath. He’s surly and unsociable, but when he straps on a tool belt, no woman can resist his sexy swagger. Except, apparently, Hope Beaumont, the innkeeper of his own Inn BoonsBoro.... As the former manager of a D.C. hotel, Hope is used to excitement and glamour, but that doesn’t mean she can’t appreciate the joys of small-town living. She’s where she wants to be - except for in her love life....
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Favorite of the series
- Écrit par Deborah Rouleau le 2020-03-21
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Blood Brothers
- Sign of Seven, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Phil Gigante
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Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys - Caleb, Fox, and Gage - went on a camping trip to the Pagan Stone. And 21 years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men - and the women who love them.
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spooky supernatural
- Écrit par Georgina le 2019-03-28
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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The Last Boyfriend
- The Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): MacLeod Andrews
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Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the family’s construction business with an iron fist - and an even less flexible spreadsheet. And though his brothers give him grief for his compulsive list making, the Inn BoonsBoro is about to open right on schedule. The only thing Owen didn’t plan for was Avery MacTavish... Avery’s popular pizza place is right across the street from the inn, giving her a firsthand look at its amazing renovation - and a newfound appreciation for Owen.
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Love Nora’s Series
- Écrit par Dorothy le 2020-04-04
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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The Obsession
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): Shannon McManus
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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known.
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The Obsession should have been called The Boring!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-05-12
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Hideaway
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
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Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star - yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. Callan Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house.
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Disappointing
- Écrit par Aimee McCrae le 2020-06-06
Auteur(s): Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.
They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.
Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before - the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted - and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.
In a mysterious shelter in the forest, her training is about to begin under the guidance of Mallick, whose skills have been honed over centuries. She will learn the old ways of healing; study and spar; encounter faeries and elves and shifters; and find powers within herself she never imagined. And when the time is right, she will take up the sword, and fight. For until she grows into the woman she was born to be, the world outside will never be whole again.
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- Greg at 2 Book Lovers Reviews
- 2019-02-16
Loved it!
After completing Year One, Nora Roberts had me primed for book two, Of Blood and Bone, in her Chronicles of The One series. Needless to say, I was not disappointed.
I’ll do my best to write this review, but this is not the type of series where you could jump in anywhere along the way. Roberts is building off of the world she masterfully created in Year One. At the same time, she leaves the necessary, gentle reminders of what happened in the first book, there is a full year between the release dates, and I cannot be expected to remember every detail.
Of Blood and Bone jumps a few years into the future since the events of Year One. The story is more about the children, while the adults are still present and active. I connected easily to the new characters and invested myself in their lives. This is a story where the good guys are very, very good and the bad guys are very, very bad, and sometimes well camouflaged.
I decided to use my monthly Audible credit for this book. When I wasn’t listening to Julia Whelan’s narration, I was thinking about the story and this post-apocalyptic world that Roberts created. When I was listening to it, I wanted the story to go on and on. I came to appreciate Whelan’s skill as a narrator, each character had a unique tone to their voice that she maintained consistent throughout.
The best part of finding a series that you love as a reader is that you have more to look forward to. The best part of the series being a trilogy is the tension that you feel waiting for the third book. The end is in sight, but you have to wait for it; November 26th and The Rise of Magicks is circled on my calendar.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-03-06
Good but not great
Voices all sound the exact same for their respective gender.
Story is good and entertaining, but too black or white, none of the characters feel real or deep because they are all so good and don't have any kind of moral or intellectual struggle they just are perfect (unrealistic). Everything happens so convineintly. But overall still a good story just not enough grim dark for me. And I may just have higher expectations for narrators than I should, thanks to Steven paceys amazing narrations I am probably spoiled.
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- HS
- 2020-01-30
The series is starting to get stagnate.
I liked the first book, is starting to get boring. I was starting to zone out in certain chapters. the Narrator is good
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- Cathe
- 2019-07-04
AWESOME! LOVED IT!!
This second book "Of Blood and Bone "in the "Chronicles of One " Series by Nora Roberts is just as good as the first! I'm impatiently waiting for the third & last book in the series. I'v listened to this through audiobooks twice and totally enjoyed it both times and will probably relisten when the next book is out to refresh everything in my brain lol. You won't regret buying either the book or audiobooks, its its another Winner by Nora Roberts.
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- Maggie Reid
- 2019-01-18
Disappointing
I was so excited to see the sequel, but this book was not even close to being as good as the first one.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-12-12
Post apocalypse story telling
This book is a great continuation of the first book. But also has a great story of its own. It has a full detailed outlook of what it could really be like if it really happened and how different groups would deal with what’s left.
I like this book and the story a great deal.
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- ShifterGirl
- 2022-11-19
Intense, beautiful, & terrible.
So many voices! It was wonderful to listen to, and impressive. All of the voices brought this story to life, made me laugh, and brought tears to my eyes. I can't wait to listen to the next book.
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- Macy Fralick
- 2022-09-05
Just okay
The first book is the best and I would suggest stopping there. I had purchased this ahead of time so I didn't want to waste the credit.
I liked the narrator she was great throughout the whole series and part of the reason I kept listening.
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- Susan James
- 2022-07-06
loved it
as always, Nora Roberts has out done herself. I'm going to download book 3 and start tonight
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- Anynomous
- 2022-03-27
Increasingly boring white feminist futurism
The second book of the series is still good, Julia Whelan is forever solid, but it is increasingly becoming a trite narrative of white feminist heroism and futurism with a lot of basic romantic stereotypes and racist imagery. I just wish those who can't do politics right in narrative and the dystopia/futurism genre would simply not do it and be entertaining. Nobody needs your liberal feminist bs in magical form, Nora Roberts.
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- Tayln
- 2018-12-12
Can't Wait for the next!
I loved this more than the first year! I cried way more than I have in a long time when reading a book but perhaps it was just my connections to the characters after reading "Year One" recently. I truly cannot wait for the next book in this series.
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- Fay V
- 2018-12-05
Beyond Expectations!
NR is brilliant! LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this sequel! Answered all open questions from book one and brought in some exciting new elements that expanded and broadened the story line. Julia Whelan's narration was on par and very well done. Don't miss out on a GREAT story! Now I want the conclusion already!! Do not want to wait a whole year, I guess I'll just have to read and re-read.
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- Kelly M
- 2019-08-19
Great read
NUMBER OF HEARTS: 4
Of Blood and Bone is book 2 in Nora Roberts’ Chronicles of One series. We pick up almost 13 years after the end of book 1 (Year One). Fallon Swift “The One” is swiftly approaching her 13th birthday and the beginning of the next chapter in her journey to save the world. Fallon’s journey will take her back to the town of New Hope that her mother and birth father helped found. The people of New Hope will play a very important role in Fallon’s journey.
Of Blood and Bone was a great second book in the series. The story is a little slow because the is a lot that Fallon has to learn in two short years. There is a lot of build up to what may happen in the final book of this trilogy. I am very much looking forward to seeing what is next.
Again Julia Whelan did an amazing job narrating this story. I am very much looking forward to the next book in this series. I will also be looking for more books narrated by Julia.
If you have not started this series yet, I would highly suggest it! But you must read in order!!!!
Disclaimer:
I purchased this audiobook and this review is my own opinion and not a paid review.
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- grafxgrl
- 2018-12-11
Beautifully Emotional
Of Blood and Bone is a beautiful addition to Nora Roberts Chronicles of the One series. Julia Whelan was a new narrator to me with the first book and I have found I really like her narration. She does a beautiful job inflicting the emotions of the characters and I hope she does the next one as well.
This book in the series was brilliant. I felt what the characters felt. I learned what the characters learned. The magics and paranormal aspects were not over done as in some books written in this genre. Nora is brilliant in this aspect and I have totally missed reading/listening to her work. I simply LOVED this book and cannot believe we have to wait another full year for more but will be waiting (im)patiently!
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- ABC&Me
- 2019-05-21
Disappointing
After eagerly awaiting for over a year
for this book to be released, I just finished it & am so disappointed.
I don’t listen to/read a whole lot of sci-fi/fantasy, but I took a chance on the 1st book in this series, (Year One) & I loved it.
I already returned this one.
To me, this was a very boring YA fantasy...& I don’t like YA at all. The last book was from many different (adult) perspectives, & the story lines were interesting, scary, sad, & I definitely rooted for the good guys. This one is almost all from a teenaged girl’s perspective, which some people may like, I didn’t.
Feels very YA, & YA always comes of super cheesy/cringey to me.
The whole thing with her being “The One” irritated me. They never really explain ‘why’ she’s the chosen “One”, we’re just supposed to accept it, & move on...but I just couldn’t. Other than a few furry side-kicks she acquires along the way, she didn’t seem much different than all the other people with “magicks”.
We’ve been told she was gonna be “The One” since the last book before she was even born...she’s been told her whole life that she’s this super-special savior of the world...anyone around her with magicks can ‘feel’ her specialness...but I just couldn’t. Her self-assuredness came across as undeserved/unearned & cocky.
Overall, this one just didn’t have the same emotion, or the terrified apocalyptic feel the last book did.
It barely kept my attention. I had to rewind multiple times when my mind would wander off. Nothing much happens until the very, very end. Even then, it was only 5-10 minutes of the book & not that exciting anyway. Disappointing.
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- Keisha
- 2019-01-11
Not my favorite!
This really isn't my favorite series for several reasons. I liked that this series is a little different from what I am used to from Nora but I found that the story doesn't have enough conflict. The main character starts her growth process at the young age of 13 and from go she gets everything right...knows everything... and she rarely sounds 13 or pubescent. It's just too clean and tidy for me and not enough grit and struggle. The latter is something you'd expect more of because she's coming into herself and she's bigger than herself... but she always says and does the right things. I think I would feel better about the perfection of her character if she was older... but even still... there is a certain level of grit required for growth and struggle and this book is absent of those things and that is not an exaggeration.
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- knit & listen
- 2018-12-06
hugely disappointed
started hopefully, than petered out. Narrator has same voices everything she narrates. couldn't finish, big let down.
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- Alisia
- 2019-01-07
Good but....
So overall I enjoyed the book and seeing what became of the characters from Year One; however, it still fell a bit short for me. I thought Year One was phenomenal and so different from the Nora Roberts usual form of writing, the world, the characters, everything was just so intriguing and had me zoned in front start to finish. This book fell back into old hat, which is ok because I am a fan, but I was expecting a lot more. Hopefully the next installment will rekindle the magic of the first book.
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- Rita T
- 2018-12-11
Better than expected
Granted, there was some teenaged angst in this, overall this book was surprisingly good. I give it 5 stars. I am unsure why so many reviewers complain about the narrator. I have never heard a book narrated by Julia Whelan that wasn't well-done. I thought she did a great job with the characters. I eagerly look forward to what I guess is the final book. The twist at the end was very well done and totally unexpected, at least by me!! Another winner by Nora Roberts.
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- J.S.
- 2019-04-03
Dissapointing
Found the second book in the series to be boring. There was never a reason to really care for any of the characters. This is the problem with creating overpowered characters. This is basically a 14 hour retelling of King Arthur and Merlin. Save time and watch 20 minutes of Excalibur. Merlin takes child. Merlin tutors child. Merlin returns child.
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