This isn't my favorite series of Nora Roberts. The first book of the series was the best one and I think it was mainly because I really liked the characters. In this 3rd book it was O.K. I liked Mia but she was a little harder to relate too. I loved her skills as a witch and a crafty business women. Her Cafe bookstore was one of my favorite locations. I was given a writing challenge last week and I had to come up with one sentence to describe my current read. Here is what I came up with: "Witches of the Three Sister Island have to come together to save the island from the same fate as Atlantis."That sums up the series perfectly.

This audio book did not work for me on so many levels. I didnt like the heroine, I didnt like the hero. I didnt care for the supporting characters. I thought parts of it were downright stupid and it emphasizes all the reasons I do not read Ms. Roberts trilogies any longer.Thats it in a nutshell though I suppose I should give a bit more detail, otherwise it will sound like one of those crap reviews that can be found on Amazon.I have to start out by saying Ive loved Nora Roberts for a long time. I still love her as JD Robb and I still enjoy her single title books though I dont read that many due to price. I did very recently purchase Whiskey Beach and Honest Illusions as ebooks when they were for a good prices. But I gave up her trilogies a long time ago as the characters seen all interchangeable after having read a number in my earlier romance reading days. Im going to come down on the author and it hurts to do so as I have a tremendous amount of respect for her talent but in the trilogies she has 3 basic types, mostly heroines but I have read a series where the heroes fell into this pattern too.There is what I call, earth mother (father) type. All she (he) really wants is to be a good wife (dad) and possible mother (father). Shes (hes)tried to womanly (beta manly) things like cooking, cleaning, raising plants, that kind of thing. Shes often been abused by a previous boyfriend/husband the hero for this type rescues her.The second type of heroine (hero) is the tough type. She(he) has a tough exterior hiding a heart of gold of course. She often holds a traditionally more masculine type job, cop, firefighter, works on a boat, that kind of thing. Eve Dallas for example is this type.The third type is what I think of as high maintenance. Usually this heroine (hero) is very stylish, sure of herself and her place in the world. High maintenance probably isnt a fair label, but she is the most confident of the three and has a successful career.In Face the Fire, Mia is the third type and my least favourite. I cant really relate to this type of heroine and in all the trilogies this is my least favourite type. I didnt care for Mia; she comes across to me as rather cold even though her element is fire. Yes, she had her heart crushed by Sam when she was very young. And her parents did pretty much abandon her. And to keep the hurt at bay she gained a very strong mask, but I still didnt like her. And Sam was an awful hero. He selfishly left her when they were young, breaking her and didnt even give much of a reason for it. He doesnt have anything to do with her for ten years and though he realizes he may have a bit of work ahead of him in getting her back, he figures its pretty much a done deal. Ass hat.The woo woo part of it didnt work for me at all either. Both Sam and Mia are witches though I always thought a male witch was called a warlock. They are often sending out spells and maybe because I listened instead of reading where I could just skip them they were, well, stupid. Every time either one went off into spell working land I rolled my eyes, even though I was driving in a car.I have very little experience with audio books but the readers voice didnt impress me at all. When she was speaking in the characters voices it was almost like nails on a chalkboard for me. I winced and hunched my shoulders.The plot was simplistic some Evil Force on Sisters Island wants to drive Mia out and take over the island. This is the third book and The Force tried with Nell, the earth mother, abused wife heroine in the first book and failed and then again with Ripley, the tough heroine in the second book and now finally with Mia in this one. But after finally forgiving Sam and embracing love, Mia triumphs over evil along with the help of her two sisters and Sam. At the risk of being a negative Nellie gag me. I dont give this low of grades often but with so many things working against it for me this gets a very low grade.

Mia Devlin is a witch and she's a witch I love!This story is, in my opinion, the best of the trilogy. Mia and her ex, back on the isle with the purpose to being with her again, are a great couple.The story has a very sweet side and it's really good.Recommended!

I KNEW THIS WOULD BE MY FAVOURITE! I was so sure that something was missing on the previous 2 books but I just couldn't figure out what it was. I still can't but I know after reading book 3 that it definitely has something the others didn't, even though I can't exactly say what, lol. Kinda messed up, anybody got that?I had been waiting to get to know Sam since he was first mentioned on the previous books. I wasn't sure if he would be the perfect mate for our amazing Mia (which was always my fav. character!) since he left her all alone to suffer without him for 11 freaking long years! I mean, how do you forgive something like that? But I loved him since page 1, sigh... how I loved him. Here we get to read about my fav. type of characters: Strong, powerful and way too alpha for their own good!And the plot, omg the plot. It got way more elaborated and complicated. I loved that. Finally an ending for a story that had been developing on every book of the series.I had an amazing time with this series and I really, really recommend it.

From the massive amount of books Ive read by Nora Roberts,Ive learned something.If you loved the first book,never expect the sequel or the others in the series to be as good as the first one.Its a lesson I learned throughout my experience of Roberts works.I went through the same thing in Face the Fire.I loved the first book,Dance Upon the Air and I enjoyed the second one,Heaven and Earth so initially I had a little hope for Face the Fire.But of course,it turned out to be a disappointment.Even though this book answers a lot of questions and is a great conclusion for the mysteries,the story itself was not at all great.Ive always liked Mia.In the first two books,she has always been a character I admire.And Sam is wonderful too.So its hard to understand why I didnt like this one.Sam and Mias story is kind of like the teenage-sweethearts-meet-again-and-fall-in-love-again-with-loads-of-flashbacks.Still the girl is reluctant to love again and get her heart broken.Well its a Roberts book for Gods sake,when did the heroine fall in love quickly?The romance was flat and the whole craft thing has become a little tiring.Since Mia has always been the person who mends the craft business,its a little overwhelming when shes the main character.So mostly,Face the Fire was a great book,but it didnt manage to amaze me.