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Year One by Nora Roberts

11 reviews

nicisfictionaddiction's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Great read, captured me from the first page. Good writing, good story, good characters. Very enjoyable to read an prophecy filled apocalypse novel with a primarily adult cast.
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rens_bookshelves's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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fangirljeanne's review

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

A more optimistic version of The Stand, with magic and Fae lore. Just a bit too much Christianity, even though the leads are “witches.” Right down to the chosen one, magical pregnancy. 

Very white middle class take on an apocalypse. Beautiful writing, compelling storytelling with a fairly even steady pace. Great character work, even for small appearances.

The romance is pretty schmaltzy, though maybe because the main relationship is already establish when the story begins. The other relationships are brief background stuff, blink and you’ll miss it. 

Over all a decent read, but not interesting enough to get me to read the rest of the series. 

I recommend it to fans of The Stand, The Walking Dead and The Strain who are looking for something with a more optimistic view of the death of the old world and birth of the new.
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jenxreads's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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hannaws's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

 Schools closed, countless businesses locked their doors as people were urged to limit contact with others. The sale of surgical masks, gloves, over-the-counter and prescription flu remedies, bleach and disinfectants soared.

Sound familiar to anyone? To be honest, I nearly DNFd this book just because I'm so full of the big C. I was like "nope, I am not going to read a book that was published three year prior the big C, yet still very much takes me back to the starting dates". But really, this plaque is far more deadly than what we have. Far more. And I continued to read. Nora Roberts is after all the first author I ever seriously read anything from ever.

The book is kind of written in multiple POVs that sometimes get confused by one another. By that I mean the way those change. You might be in the middle of a chapter, reading person ones POV, when suddenly the next paragraph is from person two's POV. That threw me off a little because it made me go back for more than one time, just to check when and what happened now.
To keep on going with the multiple POVs, those pretty much seem somewhat pointless to me. Yes, as the synopsis says, their paths cross etc so there is some point at the start, but in the end, they all are forgotten. I don't think they really would have needed that much page time in their own point of views.

That brings me to characters. So many amazing characters are introduced here and brought together. You'd think that this is the posse who will take over the world, however that's possible during a deadly plaque, I don't know. You pick favorites and really try to get into those different persons, just to not hear about them anymore. I really don't know what is the point in all of this. I mean yes, I do, but at the same time I really don't think all of it was necessary.
The main character, I think that's what she is, became kind of whatever to me. At the end of the book she was just words written on a paper. Not much connection there at all, really not much of anything to take a hold of with her.

The story itself is nice. I think it could have been better. I'm trying to get a hold of my words here and find the right ones. Because I did really like this book, I finished it. I do want to continue with this series also, I need to know what comes out of this Chosen One. Are they going to be like every single Chosen One? Or will this turn out differently?
Back to the story. I don't much care about The Chose One trope and with Year One it's no different. I kinda laughed when I read that, sorry. It was expected though. The whole book is very predictable. That might be the biggest reason for it to get to the meh-category. There just isn't much to look forward to. Everything just happens and it's done with. Like "oh, my neighbor just fell from a tree. Well, I better move on with my life" you know?

All in all I liked this one and am curious enough to continue with this series. It is just a little hasty book. Like a snowplow just going forward until it's done for the days work. I'm hoping for more character and story building for the next book. A little bit more depth to the characters. And I really hope to see some of them again! I mean I did spent half a book with a lot of people. 
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fckastel's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Really dark heavy material but engrossing and hard to put down 
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redheadorganist's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

The book was good but it had the feeling of being written by someone who was writing outside their usual genre, which is exactly the case. The fantasy/magic was kind of shallow. There was no explanation of where anything came from or the backstory of the powers.
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pagesofash's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

Quick, easy read, enjoyable if a bit bland, massively lacking in rep and diversity. Starts out strong but losses its way a bit towards the end but I love world ending stories, the way the world fractures, falls apart and pulls itself back together again.
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trillianm's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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lorie336's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Something different from Nora Roberts and I love it! Dystopia plus magic including magical beings such as witches, fae, elf, etc., which includes a deadly pandemic. There  are those who remain that are normal, gone mad with power that had lain dormant within them, those who choose to abuse their power being dark power, and then there are those who use their power for good being the light power.

As we begin this book with the rise of the pandemic, the panic of the spread, the survivors struggling to live while others around go mad, kill others for fun, or some decide to end it. We follow a few groups who eventually find their way to each other, so love the many different POVs and the diversity of characters and getting to know them as well as their story, watching them grow in good ways and some bad. I couldn't stop reading this, I had to know if certain people survived or how they would solve their next problem and in true fashion Nora likes to throw wrenches into her stories as she did in this one. I am looking forward to reading the sequel.
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