Title: Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy #1)

Author: Nora Roberts

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Published: October 29, 2013

The story took forever to get started. The author took over thirty pages having the audience get acquainted with people who were just background. It was setting up the rest of the story, but we met six people half of them are not mentioned again. Once we moved from the past to the present the book picked up and became easier to read.

There was one character who had a conflict with another character. I understand the author was building that part of the plot for a portion of the conflict in the third book, but the third time the two characters butt heads I was thinking, just get over it already. If the audience has to deal with that for the next two books it will really get old.

I really liked the character's relationships with the animals. There were horses, falcons and dogs. Each of the characters connected with the different animals. I especially liked the relationship Iona, the main character, had with her horse Alastar.

Overall I gave this book 4 stars out of 5.