Born in Fire
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Born in Fire
Born in Fire is the first novel in a three part series from author Nora Roberts that I just checked off my to be read list.
I read these books when I was much younger. For whatever reason, I decided that I wanted to read them again, and I usually just follow my instinct when that happens. Which is where I found myself reading Born in Fire. Do you ever choose to read books a second time years later?
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I remember when I was a kid, my mother would take me to a small used bookstore, and exchange a bunch of mass market paperback books for others, and get credit for them. Thinking about it, the woman running the store would give customers one fourth of the total cost of a book listed on the back in store credit for all of the books. I believe she charged half the price on the back of the book when they were used as well.
It was always fascinating to me to watch. Because the woman would write everything down in a receipt book. The kind that had three copies. She would keep the top copy, the customer would get the middle yellow one, and I have no idea where the third one would go. I presume it was for taxes, but I don’t know for sure.
When she wrote everything down, she would add up the totals in her head. This amazed me, because I can’t do things like that. I’ve never been good at adding numbers up in my head. But this woman was old school, and had no problems with it. Something that looking back as an adult, is a dying art. We all use calculators these days, or our phones.
These days my eye sight won’t allow me to read a mass market paperback book, because the print is just too small. I much prefer hardcover books and my Kindle. But this store was overflowing with mass market paperback books. So many shelves and titles like Born in Fire, I still wonder how people read those books constantly, and how the books even survived.
It is fun to take a trip down memory lane whenever I pick up a Nora Roberts book though. Because when I think about books from my younger years, it is always mass market paperbacks and Nora Roberts and Danielle Steel. What about you? What books do you automatically think about when it comes to your younger years? Tell me about them!
Have you read Born in Fire? Come on in and let me tell you about it!
About Born in Fire
Margaret Mary, the eldest Concannon sister, is a glass artist with an independent streak as fierce as her volatile temper. Hand-blowing glass is a difficult and exacting art, and while she may produce the delicate and the fragile, Maggie is a strong and opinionated woman, a Clare woman, with all the turbulence of that fascinating west country.
One man, Dublin gallery owner Rogan Sweeney, has seen the soul in Maggie’s art, and vows to help her build a career. When he comes to Maggie’s studio, her heart is inflamed by their fierce attraction—and her scarred past is slowly healed by love…
Thoughts on Born in Fire
The last series I read from Nora Roberts ended up irritating me the second time around reading them. Because they lacked any real depth to me. I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t exactly have the highest hopes for this series or the book Born in Fire after that. But I pushed that thought aside and decided to find out either way.
Born in Fire features Maggie Concannon, a typical sulky, flighty artist who follows her instincts and moods. But she is fiercely loyal to her sister and everyone she cares about. I kind of like her sassy attitude because I can relate to hiding hurt through hostility and anger.
The thing that stuck out to me here was the family aspect. It wasn’t all sunshine and roses in this story, and I have to respect that. It was raised by a narcissist, so I totally understand having an ugly but truthful story, and it has made me who I am.
The part that irritated me was how quickly she jumped into a relationship with Rogan and how quickly they fell in love. It felt like the whole relationship was kind of glossed over. It went from a somewhat random one night stand to suddenly proposing marriage and saying they loved each other in the blink of an eye. It lacked depth, and the time it takes to build that depth.
The ending of Born in Fire was also really abrupt. I feel like there should have been more to that. I loved the location where it happened, but it still felt rushed to me and it could have been much better.
Final Thoughts on Born in Fire
Born in Fire is a good book and it kept me entertained for a couple of hours. But it wasn’t a great book, and that is the part that I find so disappointing. I remember this being a far better book the first time I read it many years ago, and I’m almost sorry I decided to read the series again, because it wasn’t nearly as good the second time around.
I’m now starting Born in Ice, and I really hope that one is better, and there is more character development that happens within that book. Let’s see what happens! I do like the fact that with trilogies that Nora Roberts writes, we get to see more of the characters from Born in Fire in the next two books, and that helps to develop them a bit more.
Discussion
Have you read Born in Fire, or any other writing from bestselling author Nora Roberts? Are you a fan? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
About the Author
Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Shelter in Place, Year One, Come Sundown, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than five hundred million copies of her books in print.
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