The Mirror - (Lost Bride Trilogy) by Nora Roberts

The Mirror by Nora Roberts is the second book in The Lost Bride Trilogy. You do need to read The Inheritance before beginning The Mirror. The Mirror picks up where The Inheritance left off. I have been reading Nora Roberts’ book since I was a teenager (I read her first book when I was twelve), and The Mirror felt like it was written by a different individual. The story focuses more on food than it does on the curse and evil entity in the house. I know how to cook a pot roast. I do not need the process described step by step (this is not a cookbook). Sonia and Cleo plan meals, shop for the ingredients, cook meals and desserts, create a garden, work, paint, and plan a party. Of course, they spend time with the gentlemen in their lives, Trey and Owen. Let us not forget the pets. The pets need to be fed, let in and out, and bathed (I find it amusing that the cat is named Pyewacket). The story moves at a snail’s pace plus there are repetitive details. If something happens to Sonia, she needs to tell Cleo, and then Owen, and so forth. There is no action (the dogs did more than the people). The plot does not move forward (not a bit in the four hundred and fifty some pages). I know that if I lived in a haunted manor with an evil squatter on the third floor, I would be searching for answers (not planning a party). The story lacked suspense, chemistry, and eeriness (I was never freaked out by the banging doors and such). The Mirror seemed an unnecessary addition to the trilogy (I bet the story could have been told in one book). The writing is out of character for Nora Roberts. It is a shame that the book does not live up to its intriguing premise. I am hoping the action and suspense will appear in the final book of the trilogy (fingers crossed) as well as the long-awaited answers.

Just started reading thus book. Loved the 1st one.