On the prodding of a friend who is a voracious reader of all things Nora Roberts, I picked up Dance Upon the Air. Her In Death series had just the right balance of mystery, police procedural, humor and romance to make this male not feel all weird reading was really was a romance novel. My initial introduction to Nora Roberts’ writing was through a mystery-romance series of hers written by her under the pseudonym, J.D. The novels which sold me on her type of writing was her Three Sisters Island Trilogy.ĭance Upon the Air was a surprise find for me as a reader. I’m still not sold on a majority of romance-themed novels, but I have been sold on the one’s written by that queen of the romance novels: Nora Roberts (and to a larger degree the one’s she writes under the pseudonym J.D Robb). Ten or so years ago I would never have picked up these books, but I have since found them to be much to my liking. Not saying romance novels have no place, but it definitely doesn’t fill the criteria of what I like and listed above. I would be the first to admit that romance novels would be the last thing I would consider my type of entertainment. I think most people’s guilty pleasure were discovered by accident or happenstance. This particular guilty pleasure I came across by accident. Horror, action and sci-fi tend to perk up my attention when looking for something to read, watch and/or play. My taste in entertainment tends to be on the darker, violent and existential side of things.

Dance upon the air trilogy