Morrigan's Cross

Today's post is on Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts. It is 321 pages long and is published by Jove. It it the first in her Circle Trilogy. The cover is purple with an Irish cross on it. The intended reader is someone who likes romance, urban fantasy, and some action added in for flavor. The story is told from the third person close of the two lead characters moving from one to the next as the story goes. There is some foul language, sexuality, and mild violence in this book. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea...
Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family's embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for over a thousand years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at nothing until she rules this world—and those beyond it...
Hoyt is no match for the dark siren. But his powers come from the goddess Morrigan, and it is through her that he will get his chance at vengeance. At Morrigan's charge, he must gather five others to form a ring of power strong enough to overcome Lilith. A circle of six: himself, the witch, the warrior, the scholar, the one of many forms and the one he's lost. And it is in this circle, hundreds of years in the future, where Hoyt will learn how strong his spirit—and his heart—have become...

Review- A good start to a urban fantasy adventure. Roberts is an excellent writer, no surprise there, so she brings something new to the paranormal romance/ urban fantasy. She is plotting a over-arching story about redemption, true love, and stopping a terrible evil. No one piece of the plot is unique but the way that Roberts builds things is unique to the genre and to her style. The vampires are very traditional and scary in the story, I worried about the characters and how they were going to stop anything bad from happening. The love story was the weakest part of the story for me in this volume but I have hopes for others. In the end I liked how well plotted and I look forward to seeing where the story is going next.

I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.