Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts

Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts. This is the first story in The Circle Trilogy. It is the love story between Hoyt (wizard) and Glenna (witch).

This series is opening with a very entertaining tale. I put off reading it as quickly as some because I tend toward reading vampire books where the vampire is the hero, not the hunted. Cian is the only good vampire we've met so far. Oh well. I'll have to deal with it!

The other week I was thinking about why I love the romance genre, and paranormal romance in particular. I saw a blog post that brought to mind the old literature vs. genre fiction debate -- the one with romance showing up on the bottom of the heap as thought-provoking literature.

I don't read any fiction because I want to think.

That statement includes the "Pulitzer Prize" winning literature. I don't read any fiction to think! Not even the fiction that is supposedly more thought-provoking.

There have been very few fiction authors that taught me anything about the human condition that I hadn't already learned on my own. That isn't an insult. And, it isn't arrogance. It is just the truth. I don't need to learn in a book what the wonderful and horrible people I've been over the last decades have already taught me.

I read books to be entertained. Obviously I've learned about foreign lands, different beliefs and culture through fiction books, but all the books I remember those most are books that made me feel. I want to meet great characters. I want to see them through adventures. I want to feel along with them as they go through the process of falling in love.

Morrigan's Cross isn't my favorite Nora Roberts book to-date, but it was really good at bringing me into another world. It's great paranormal romance, and promising to be the start of a great series.