year one / nora roberts

year one

(the one #1)

by nora roberts

fantasy, chicklit

copyright 2017

read in july 2019

rated 6/10: read to pass the time

easy reading, chicklit fantasy by the numbers. this is chapter one of a saga,  there is no satisfactory conclusion.

by the numbers: start with rich, happy, self-satisfied family group. cue the cackling crone foretelling death, doom and many more books in the series. of course no-one listens to the crone (not that she makes any sense). then kill all the family -- except for the pregnant woman.

next:  introduce the characters who will survive for most of the book. and what a lot of them there are! the author is setting us up for an enormous and complex saga. the goodies are sooo sweet. the villains are almost cackling with evil. babies pop out all over the place.

a lot of the "action" involves creation of a cutesy little village, where everyone -- except the obvious baddies, of course -- is loving and supportive and creative and hard working. gosh, who would have thought that one person on one pc could "find" the lost internet? and the one website that exists is run by evil people who plan to kill every user of magic.

amongst the magic users, one person can see the future. "the baddies are coming, to kill all magic users!" she says. so what do the magic users do? they leave their guns at home and have an open-air party. and guess what...

it's rubbish, it's predictable, it's so sweet that dentists would warn against it. the ending is a pause for the goodies to develop new powers, it is not a conclusion. this is chapter one rather than book one.

but it's easy to read, reasonably entertaining and relatively harmless. with a solid dose of, "magic is nice if the magic user is nice". formula fantasy by the numbers, probably took longer the read than to write.

not great literature but reading it is a reasonable -- mindless -- way to pass the time.

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