Year One

Nora Roberts is a wonderful writer.

She is one of my favorite romance novel writers, maybe even the most favorite, and expanding her romance writing style to urban fantasy is fine by me. :-D

I like Nora Roberts' kind, gentle look on humans and human relationships. I like her characters. I like the friendships, and I like the view on women she has. It's OK to be a bad-ass fighter who likes pretty things. It's OK to be a sweet, soft, fashion loving chef, who becomes a tiger when her cubs are threatened. I feel Nora's characters are real people.

I was expecting more traditional fantasy, though, because of what Tomi Adeyemi wrote (when she accused Nora Roberts of riding on Tomi's success by naming the #2 in series “of blood and bone”, as if she stole Tomi's book title), but this is in no way related to that.
What I got was a post-apocalyptic story... well, apocalyptic story of magical people - people who can heal, sense things, people who are fairies, elves, and other things.

And then there are the a-holes, the bigoted hateful people who want to harm others just to harm them...

I am writing this 2021. Year 2 of the Pandemic. And I can't avoid relating the events of this book to what is happening now, here. How some a-holes are attacking people who look Asian in USA (and possibly elsewhere as well) because of “China virus”. Idiots.

A-holes like that make me believe in Eugenics. I can't imagine anyone would be worse off without those people. Not even themselves.