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Blood Magick (Cousins O'Dwyer) (edition 2014)

by Nora Roberts

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"County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O'Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries soaps, lotions, and candles for tourists, made with Branna's special touch. Branna's strength and selflessness hold together a close circle of friends and family--along with their horses and hawks and her beloved hound. But there's a single missing link in the chain of her life: love... She had it once--for a moment--with Finbar Burke, but a shared future is forbidden by history and blood. Which is why Fin has spent his life traveling the world to fill the abyss left in him by Branna, focusing on work rather than passion. Branna and Fin's relationship offers them both comfort and torment. And though they succumb to the heat between them, there can be no promises for tomorrow. A storm of shadows threatens everything that their circle holds dear. It will be Fin's power, loyalty, and heart that will make all the difference in an age-old battle between the bonds that hold their friends together and the evil that has haunted their families for centuries"--… (more)
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Title:Blood Magick (Cousins O'Dwyer)
Authors:Nora Roberts
Info:Berkley Trade (2014), Paperback, 336 pages
Collections:2014 Reading List
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
It doesn't focus on a holiday. It goes through Christmas and New Years, but they face Cabman on an anniversary instead of a holiday
  HassanMunir | Sep 6, 2022 |
Just could not get into this series. I didn't even finish this one. ( )
  tsmom1219 | Feb 24, 2022 |
Meh. Chalk it up to a over-dose of Nora Roberts a few months ago, or to the fact that Branna was never my favourite of the characters; either way, this one wasn't quite as good as the first two.

I almost gave myself whiplash from overly violent eye-rolling during the first two chapters (the ones that take place several hundred years ago, when the plot of the books began). I don't care how attuned you are with your siblings, how close you are to each other, there's only so much spontaneous rhyming any two people can do at the same time, speaking as one. Make it three people, and forget it - never going to happen.

The rest of the book happens in 2013 and it's not as sappy and rhyme-time, although there's a fair bit of verse as they spell their way through the holidays and prepare for the final showdown. The ending was never in question, it was always going to be a HEA. Which is why I picked up the first book anyway. It felt like there was less action in this final book and a lot more attempts at grand-romance of the true confession kind. More fantasy, less pragmatism.

A floating bed in the middle of the south pacific - really?!

The romance was ok - while Branna wasn't my favourite character, I did always like Fin so I thought the romance worked, it just didn't work as well for me as it would have if I had really liked both characters.

I closed this book happy that the trilogy was complete. Not sorry I read it, but not sorry there isn't more, either. ( )
  murderbydeath | Jan 18, 2022 |
I really enjoyed this series, but I felt because this was the last book in the series it was lacking a little bit at the end. I would have loved to have had a little more closure. A little more of wrapping up the story after the climax. All in all a good series. ( )
  jenvwebster | Jan 25, 2021 |
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Voor Kat, een van de helderste lichten in mijn leven
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How far away the stars seem.
and how far is our first kiss,
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It will have blood; they say,
blood will have blood.

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"County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O'Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries soaps, lotions, and candles for tourists, made with Branna's special touch. Branna's strength and selflessness hold together a close circle of friends and family--along with their horses and hawks and her beloved hound. But there's a single missing link in the chain of her life: love... She had it once--for a moment--with Finbar Burke, but a shared future is forbidden by history and blood. Which is why Fin has spent his life traveling the world to fill the abyss left in him by Branna, focusing on work rather than passion. Branna and Fin's relationship offers them both comfort and torment. And though they succumb to the heat between them, there can be no promises for tomorrow. A storm of shadows threatens everything that their circle holds dear. It will be Fin's power, loyalty, and heart that will make all the difference in an age-old battle between the bonds that hold their friends together and the evil that has haunted their families for centuries"--

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