Honest to goodness, I experienced ONE real life wedding this year. Quite honestly, my friends, I could hear the wedding fatigue in her voice when she was in the middle of writing Happy Ever After. She had a cast of four characters and took them through a year in the life - New Year’s Day to New Year’s Day. Twenty-one years ago.īut Nora wrote four books for The Bride Quartet!!!! So that’s why there’s three years between Inner Harbor (1998) and Chesapeake Blue (2001). She was very upfront that Seth would get a story - after he’d had time to grow up. And we can all use our imagination to think of what happens next.īut Nora wrote a fourth book for The Quinn Brothers!!! Why yes she did. Nora took us on that journey and left Breen in a very good place. There has been loss, there has been sadness, but on the whole Breen made her choices and there is happiness ahead. If you look at the arc of the three books, Nora finished all she set out to do: take a woman who has no knowledge of her tremendous potential and lead us to the point when she knows who she is and what she will do with her life. Dig down, it’s wishing for a little more time with characters before saying goodbye. Isn’t that the reason we all read Nora? How reliably she gives us new, entertaining adventures that only she knows we need to read? ( She wrote about trusting her in a post this fall.)įor nearly a week, I’ve seen a ton of comments wanting –no NEEDING - more of the Dragon Heart Legacy. But in the end, all of us will meet a new set of people, even knowing that book hangover awaits at the end of the series. I know some wait until all three are out, some will read them on publication day, then reread before the next book. Get the pattern? We all experience deep sadness when we close the final book in a series, sure we’ll never feel that way again.Īnd then less than a year later, Nora hands us the first book in a new series. Or you visited Three Sisters Island…the charming village of Ardmore…watched the world rebuild through The One. And oh, how it hurts to know you can’t read a book for the first time ever again.īut then…you met the Templetons of the Dream trilogy, the valiant Six of The Circle Trilogy, the amazing cousins of The O’Dwyer Trilogy. Remember the book hangover? The absolute certainty you’d never meet characters as amazing as the Concannons, or the women of Indulgence or the Montgomery Brothers? That life was bereft of light and laughter now that you didn’t know what would happen in their lives anymore and you were certain Nora NEEDED to provide more?Įven though you could always revisit the books any time you’d like, that first time was finished. Heck, pick any trilogy that you hold dear.
Remember the agonizing days that ensued when you finished the Born in trilogy? Or the Key Trilogy? Or The Inn BoonsBoro trilogy?
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