Iona goes to Ireland to stay with her cousins Branna and Connor. The family legend says the three of them with tackle dark forces that have been around for a long time. Iona is willing to learn and help with that, but she also has always felt lonely and unlovable, so she is really embracing having a family.

The story was great and the characters were all well thought out. I found it dragged a little at times but I'm excited to read the next two in the trilogy and see where it all goes.

I hate to say it, but I didn't love this book.

I've read many, but not all, of Nora Roberts's books. I'm not a big fan of the magic and supernatural, but her books are usually good enough to pull me in anyway.

Iona knows, sort of, that she's a witch. After growing up in the US with cold, uninvolved parents, she's spent her life feeling left out of love. She does have a warm relationship with her grandmother, though, and it's through Nan that Iona learns of her Irish connections.

As soon as she is able, Iona moves to Ireland to seek out her cousins, and her destiny.

There seemed to me to be a bit of a distance between Nora Roberts and the characters in this book. ...just a little something missing.

Everything seemed a little too quickly drawn. On one hand, Iona feels that she's grown up unloved; on the other hand, much is made of her loving relationship with her grandmother. I realize that some of the relationships will be explored in the other books in the trilogy, but even Boyle and Iona's story seemed to be superficial.

And the big battle they've been building up to for the entire book? It's over in about 30 seconds. I actually went back to be sure I hadn't accidentally skipped a couple of pages on the e-reader.

As I said, I'm not a big fan of the supernatural elements so that is influencing my opinion, but even most of Nora Roberts's witch-y books had enough depth to the people and their relationships to keep me interested. This one...not so much.

This felt like a complete rewrite of the Three Sisters, only in Ireland. Same plot, same bad guy, same spells, even the romantic match ups are the same. The romance is boring. I will continue on to read the other two, but I won't be spending actual money on them.

Oh this book. What can be said? I love a good Nora Robert's romantic series. I'm just a sucker for a book where the ending is so happy you want to cry. Though I would never say that this book has complex character development or anything to make it some great novel I will say this. I went to bed at 9 pm last night and this book kept me up until 1 am. It's just a good book about two people who fall in love and strong family ties. What's better than that?

More than the character and plot, I thought this book held some interesting observations about love. All of the above was good and kept me reading but the main character's struggle with relationships will keep me thinking about this book.