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A review of Face the Fire

by Nora Roberts

The conclusion of the saga of the Three Sisters Trilogy. A romantic suspense novel of three women and how their lives have intertwined.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Andrew
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Face the Fire Sometimes in a trilogy, the third book seems to lose something. It is almost as if the author is trying to stretch the story too far. Fortunately for the readers, this doesn't happen in this series! Nora Roberts produces a third book about the final important character on the Three Sisters Island. As usual she maintains the storyline while opening up a new tale about another woman that is directly associated with the other two from the previous books in the series.

Face the Fire is about a woman, Mia, who had forsaken love when she lost the one man that she could ever fall in love with. Sure, there were other men in her life but there was only one true love that she gave her heart to. When she was younger, he broke her heart when he went away. Well, guess what? He comes back after about 20 years and expects her to fall into his arms? I don't think so!

Mia is a woman that put all her efforts into running a successful bookstore and cafe. She built a place where customers can come in to browse her bookstore and choose a book or to sit and have a wonderful breakfast or delicious lunch. She creates a homey and comfortable atmosphere at her business where she is well liked and respected by everyone. She spent most of her life concentrating her efforts in developing her special gift and studying everything there was to know of the history of Three Sisters Island and what part she had to play in it all.

Throughout the series, there has been an evil that has plagued all three women. An evil, that started with Nell's ex-husband, which escalated into something dark, malicious and hungry for power. In the final book this great evil must be combated. Mia must overcome her greatest fear, as all the other women did before her and stand strong against it.

The third book is just as good as the rest in the trilogy. It isn't anything like a love/hate relationship but more of a woman's true reaction to someone she had loved dearly who broke her heart and then pops up out of the blue to try to rekindle what they once had for each other.

I was eager to read the final chapter in the series. I like how Nora Roberts took her three books in the trilogy and expanded them to incorporate each of the main characters. The reader gets to know Nell, Ripley and Mia from the first book, then the author concentrates each of their stories one book at a time so that this conclusion links all of their lives together.

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Copyright © by Jennifer Andrew, 2002

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