Your Favorite Nora Roberts Book

[AJRyan]

Our opening "Nora Roberts" discussion is: Tell us your favorite Nora Roberts book (if you have one) and why?

Mine is "Tears of the Moon," because I just love Shawn. My favorite scene being when Brenna's father punches Shawn and then they get drunk together. Then Shawn shows up at the pub for his shift in the kitchen, but Aidan stops him because it's potentially dangerous for a drunk man to be cooking, and Shawn says to him, "It's just fucking fish cakes!"

Anyway...what is your favorite Nora Roberts book?

[Bookworm In Death]

I simply cannot pick just one. I will say I prefer her trilogies.
The Circle and the Dragon Heart Trilogies are my top re-reads right now. Sign of Seven is up there for awesome relationships and writing, though I don't read it as often. I'm not sure why since Circle can be dark but Sign of Seven just seems a darker read for me. Maybe it's Lump's experience?
Finally, love the Key and Guardian trilogies. They've been top re-reads in the past.

[hmatkins]

Definitely hard to pick one! I'm not sure why, but I do tend to reread her standalones more than her trilogies. Don't ask me why. The Witness and The Obsession are two that I've reread several times. For her series, I've loved the the Bride Quartet and the Inn Boonsboro books. But I have to say I read the Year One series with ya'll on PID, and that one hooked me quickly. I'm not sure it will be a regular reread for me, but I really enjoyed those books.

[CandyThief]

The In Death books are by far my favorite, however, I too prefer her stand alone books - The Witness, High Noon, The Search, The Obsession, Nightwork. I just can't get into some of NR's books with witches or fairies or as Dallas would say the "woo woo."

[AJRyan]

The In Death books are by far my favorite, however, I too prefer her stand alone books - The Witness, High Noon, The Search, The Obsession, Nightwork. I just can't get into some of NR's books with witches or fairies or as Dallas would say the "woo woo."

You know what's funny? I don't like "woo woo" in the "In Death" series at all, BUT... I really love that stuff in Nora Roberts books. I think for me it comes down to how the world is set up at the beginning. The "In Death" world from the beginning was set up as a realistic near future world as we might actually experience it in the year 2058+. Adding "woo woo" into that doesn't fit for me. But with Nora books, if she's set the world up in the beginning as "this world has magic and shapeshifters and flying dragons, etc.," then, okay, I'm in!

[CandyThief]

The In Death books are by far my favorite, however, I too prefer her stand alone books - The Witness, High Noon, The Search, The Obsession, Nightwork. I just can't get into some of NR's books with witches or fairies or as Dallas would say the "woo woo."

You know what's funny? I don't like "woo woo" in the "In Death" series at all, BUT... I really love that stuff in Nora Roberts books. I think for me it comes down to how the world is set up at the beginning. The "In Death" world from the beginning was set up as a realistic near future world as we might actually experience it in the year 2058+. Adding "woo woo" into that doesn't fit for me. But with Nora books, if she's set the world up in the beginning as "this world has magic and shapeshifters and flying dragons, etc.," then, okay, I'm in!

That's a good point. I think I just need a dead body (or chocolate) in my books.