Heaven and Earth (Three Sisters Island Trilogy)

Heaven and Earth (Three Sisters Island Trilogy)
by Nora Roberts

Heaven and Earth (Three Sisters Island Trilogy)
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Author: Nora Roberts
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-12-01
ISBN: 0515132020
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Jove
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  • ISBN13: 9780515132021
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Heaven and Earth (Three Sisters Island Trilogy)

Book Review: Magical continuation of the Three Sisters Island trilogy
Summary: 5 Stars

Heaven and Earth marks the middle installment in Nora Roberts' Three Sisters Island trilogy. The first book in the series, Dance Upon the Air, started off the trilogy on a magical note with Ms. Roberts deftly combining romance, abit of the supernatural, and a nice thriller into an exciting tale of intertwined destinies and pasts, strong female characters, and passionate romance.

Heaven and Earth starts with the wedding and honeymoon of Nell Channing and Zack Todd (island town's sheriff). This helps cement Nell's full acceptance into the island town's fabric. Her trials and tribulations which led her to Three Sisters Island and the test she had to pass to finally begin her life anew seem less of a coincidence and more fate and predestiny. Nell is very open to such a possibility and helps explain to her just why she felt so at home upon her arrival on the island. She thinks its the magic in her past and blood that she now has learned she has. Her new sister-in-law and fellow "sister witch" Ripley Todd thinks its all crapola and would rather not dwell on such things. Ripley Todd knows of the island's magical history and her own role in it, but her fear and stubborn reluctance to accept her magical heritage makes up the meat of Heaven and Earth.

Ripley's attitude towards the magic that permeates the island and the two other women supposedly tied to her, Nell Channing and Mia Devlin (the resident island witch and seemingly its most desired woman on the island), run from tolerance to outright restrained hostility. Ripley's willing to tolerate her new sister-in-law's acceptance of her magical heritage. Mia Devlin on the other hand she avoids and ridicules in equal amount. Mia takes it all in stride but at the same time drops comments in an attempt to remind Ripley of her past and future. Ripley doesn't like this at all and does all she can to avoid the fire-haired Mia. But soon a new factor drops into her life which would lead to her finally confronting her fear of her heritage and her role in what could be the survival of Three Sisters Island.

This factor comes in the guise of Dr. MacAllister Brooke. Mac, as he likes to be called, is a professor whose main call in life is the hunt of the so-called supernatural. His travels and research leads him to the island. He plans on researching the island and determining as to the veracity of the island's supernatural past and origins. For some reason he and Ripley are set on a course to deal with each other. Mac sees Ripley as a challenge and an attraction forms. Ripley on the other hand sees Mac's research and choice of profession as being something close to being worthless, but as they continue to stay in close proximity she too cannot deny the growing attraction between them.

As the story moves along, Ripley and Mac must contend not just with each other's prickly and stubborn natures, but an outside force that wants nothing more than to destroy the peaceful lives of the original Three Sisters' descendants and the idyllic island home they and the other townspeople call home. Ripley will have to decide in the end whether to accept that which she has feared for so long, or close herself off from it forever and thus dooming her and everyone close to her. In the end, Ripley will not be alone in her own confrontation with the darkness looming over the Three Sisters Island, Mac, Nell, Mia, Zack and many others will be there to help and support her.

All in all, Heaven and Earth is a great continuation of the epic tale began with Dance Upon the Air. Ripley and Mac's relationship is a source of both humor and heat. It's amusing to see polar opposites, yet with so much in common personality-wise, fight tooth and nail not to give in to what is definitely two halves of the same coin finally finding each other. I can't wait for the third and climactic book in this magical trilogy.

Summary of Heaven and Earth (Three Sisters Island Trilogy)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts has enchanted millions of readers with her moving, intimate tales of friendships made and hearts lost, of legends, lovers and longing. Now, in the second book in her bewitching Three Sisters Island trilogy, she returns to the haunting shores of New England?and to the lives of three passionate, powerful women?

Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff?s deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them?which, lately, isn?t all that often. She?s perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her?and though she tries hard to hide them, she can?t get them under control?

Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister Booke?a researcher who?s come to investigate the rumors of witchcraft that haunt Three Sisters Island. Right from the start, he knows there?s something extraordinary about Ripley Todd. It?s not just her blazing green eyes and her sultry smile. There?s something else. Something he can detect, but she?ll never admit. Fascinated by her struggle with her amazing abilities, he becomes determined to help her accept who she is?and find the courage to open her heart.

But before Ripley and Mac can dream of what lies in the future, they must confront the pain of the past. For Three Sisters shelters centuries of secrets?and a legacy of danger that plagues them still?

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