Captivated: (The Donovan Legacy) [Kindle Edition]

Friday, March 23, 2012

Captivated: (The Donovan Legacy) [Kindle Edition]

By : Nora Roberts (Author)
Price : $6.99

Customer Reviews

I think I have most of Nora Robert's books on my Kindle (and we own 4 kindles, counting the PC versions). I have a lot of them in paperback as well, but i ran out room to store the hard copies. I'm a 65 year old male, Southern Baptist Preacher and I still cry over fairy tales. Somebody is going to say, yes but these books are about witches. I don't know what that says about me. I do know what it says about Nora Roberts. She always writes a fascinating story that I want to read over and over. I am very glad to see that that Ms. Roberts is allowing so many of my backlist favorites to be reissued in the Kindle format. The Donavan legacy series have long been among my favorites. Captivating is the first in the series. It shows what happens when a throughly modern man (a screenwriter no less) meets a beautiful, throughly modern Irish witch. He writes about witches and ghosts and things that go bump in the night professionally, but he is not a true believer, until the witch demonstrates her power for him. Actually this is the formula for the entire series--a set of cousins with heriditary elvin blood end up marrying very modern, very skeptical people and live happily ever after. It's silly maybe, but I preordered the whole set for my Kindle, and have just finished rereading them, and in six months to a year, I'll probably read them again.

This was another great start to an enticing series by Nora Roberts. What I always like about her books is that she focuses so much on character development that by the end of the book, you feel like you really know the characters with all their strengths and weaknesses. This book combines her romance with some magic, which adds a nice touch because it forces the main male character to take a leap of faith, something that is quite difficult to do. She also adds some humor with quirky side characters, which enhances the book. All in all, a very enjoyable read.