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Well, I finish Nora Roberts MacGregor Brides recently and I thought I should write a review of it for those interested.

Now, anyone who knows me that Nora Roberts is my favourite author other than Jane Austen. Nora is the tops in the romance world for me and you cannot beat her writing style, though I do love other romantic authors like Linda Howard, Julie Garwood, Elizabeth Lowell and more. With Nora though, it's never hit and miss for me. Sometimes with the other authors I've mentioned, you can pick up one of their novels and feel that it wasn't their best work. It's never this way with Nora, at least for me.

This novel is broken into three separate, but linking parts. The main characters Laura, Gwen and Julia are all modern day career women focused on their individual lives. They are cousins living in the same house together and share the same meddling grandfather who thinks they should get married and have babies to perpetuate the MacGregor line. While I think it's sweet that the grandfather, Daniel, cares about his granddauthers, I also found it a bit sexist of him to think that they should get married young and have kids soon after. This did not hamper my enjoyment of the book, though.

The first story focuses on Laura, the second on Gwen and the third on Julia. I liked that the stories were connected since the women were all related so that I could see what happened with the past characters while still enjoying the new. Roberts keeps all the characters around and I love that. She follows the same path with her trilogy books. I felt that the romances were a bit quick, but that is to be expected since there were 3 in one book. The only downside to that is that we don't get as much character development as we would in a three part trilogy, but then again, this was a Silhoutte imprint originally and they don't usually do trilogies.

So, overall, very good book and a quick read. I can't ever give Nora a thumbs down :)

Grade: A

Up next: Janice Harrell's The Secret Diaries trilogy. It's young adult fiction I have had since I was 14ish, but it's still enjoyable. Who says you can't read these books later in life?