Savour the Moment

I have now finished my second book for the year.  Savour the Moment by Nora Roberts.  This is one of the very few romance novels that I will be reading for the year and I believe is the only one that could be considered a harlequin novel.  I hugely enjoyed this book even though it made me cry.  Each of the books in the quartet so far has made me cry and I doubt the last one (Happy Ever After  coming November 2010) will be any different.  The last book, now that I know it will be release in November has been added to the list of books to read.  Bumping up the amount of harlequins to 2.
Anyways the book follows the third of four friends in her search for love and romance while the friends work together in their own wedding planning mansion.  By the time you have finished the second book you are very aware of which character is going to end up with which of the four main male characters in these books but Roberts writes the books in a way that is very amusing so that you want to read and see how the female characters themselves work their way into love.  These books are wonderful to fall into, and a quick read if you read at my speed, there is no getting into the book and usually something happens right off the bat that draws you further into the story.  The author also assumes that the reader will have read the other two books before this one and does not bother with the boring introduction that many books in a series have.  Which means all of the 325 pages are something new and you don't have to skip over pages that are just reiterating details that have been established in prior books.  (This is a relief for me, who would skip this and be annoyed, and even the best books do it like Harry Potter).
The characters are wonderful because out of the four friends each person can relate to all of them, Mackensie is the messy one who is also skeptical and critical of herself.  Emmaline is the romantic one, albeit ridiculously beautiful at the same time.  Laurel is the grounded, practical, pessimistic one who nonetheless wants to live in the moment.  Parker is the one we all aspire to be, the organized one, the self-assured one, the one who always knows where things are, what she needs to get done, and how to balance it all.  It's easy to see yourself in each of these characters even if it is just your love of spreadsheets that connects you to Parker.
This being said, and completing yet another book review, I am excitedly looking forward to November for Happy Ever After though it will be sad for the story to be done.
Another post later and I might even update the other page.
Lady Polly