Title: The Awakening
Author: Nora Roberts
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Publisher:
Macmillian Audio
Length:
Approximately 15 hours and 27 minutes
Source: Purchased
from Amazon.com
Are any trees flowering where you live? There are some very beautiful flowering trees
in my neighborhood.
Nora Roberts is a prolific author that can cross
genres. I have been meaning to read her
new fantasy trilogy since the first book of the Dragonheart Trilogy, The
Awakening, was published in 2020.
Luckily, it was the May selection for the Page-turners Book Club at the
Kewaunee Public Library.
Breen Kelly is living with her best friend Marco, just
trying to make ends meet. She is a people
pleaser and focuses on trying to keep her mother and everyone around her happy instead
of pursuing her own dreams. One day
while caring for her mother’s plants, she comes across a bank statement and
realizes her mother has been hiding from her that her missing father has sent
her vast sums of money over the years. Breen
uses the money to fund a trip to Ireland with Marco to find out what happened
to her father and more of her roots.
While there, she discovers a portal to another world and her real
past. Will she be able to defeat the evil
force that is waiting for her?
I liked the character development and world building
in the Awakening. The descriptions of
Ireland were wonderful. I really liked
her best friend Marco and how he helped push her to achieve her dreams. I also liked the theme of found family. Breen’s mother is something else, but luckily,
she has others in her life that help her out when she needs them.
I didn’t like that The Awakening was a very slow-moving
novel. There were dreams of future
things to come, but no climatic battle.
It was really about meeting the characters and Breen training for some
future battle. I really wanted more to
the story. I really didn’t like Breen’s
mother. I couldn’t believe what a cold
person she was.
We had a good discussion about this book at book club. I still need to figure out if I want to
continue with the trilogy or not.
Barrie Kreinik
was a good narrator, and it was enjoyable to listen to in an audiobook.
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