Interpersonal relation in circle trilogy (book)

jx lent me all 3 books in the stated trilogy, and it was major cool mann! last book kinda spoilt the excitement abit by rushing through the winning of the war. but thats another story for another day.

Morrigan's Cross (September 2006)
Dance of the Gods (October 2006)
Valley of Silence (November 2006)

the author (nora roberts) stated in her site that relationship has always been a key role in her books, hence i wanna touch on the various interpersonal relationships that develop throughout the 3 stories:

Hoyt (ancient sorcerer) and Glenna (modern witch)

Cian (good vampire) and Moira (queen-to-be in another world)

Larkin (shap-shifter, prince of another world) and Blair (warrior)

Lilith (queen evil vampire) and Lora (french evil vampire) (( yup! lesbians!!!! ok no, vampires are bisexual. HURH)

basically im gonna touch on the stages of interpersonal relationship.. funnily all the relationships here (except the lesbian couple, has practically all the stages present.)

stage 1: initiating

first time hoyt and glenna met was actually in a dream/reality crap. so quite a bit of screening and filtering here, blocking each other out from their minds so on so forth. magic stuff. they were very cautious around each other cause of their different centuries existence. (they met physically finally in the 21st century)

cian is hoyts twin brother who accidentally became a vampire. but a good, with a bad attitude, one.

moira hated cian the moment she knew what he was - her mother was killed by a vampire.

there was a huge load of pretense and hiding from real feelings as she tried to not show her hatred.

he in turn didnt care about the first encounters although rather attracted to this plain looking girl. (not his typical type)

larkin and blair only met later in the trilogy, and the first part of their development centered around fighting with each other (fun and practise).. not much real feelings or backgrounds. (initiation moment)

lesbian couple didnt really go into the initiation stage...

stage 2: experimenting

hoyt and glenna had a tremendous load of cultural and social differences to talk about - different centuries and countries.. glenna - NYC, hoyt - ireland.

experimenting stage lasted almost throughout their blossoming relationship as he constantly learnt about her and technology, and she learnt about his family and background.

cian and moira had not much small talk.. cian doesnt do talk. haha. but yes, experimenting.. mostly in their own minds, thinking of each other, but wishing they werent. major denial actually

larkin and blair had quite a few small talk during their fights.. where they realize their attraction for each other. slowly larkin began to find out blairs feelings towards guys in general due to previous rejection. (she's a demon hunter and people of our world and time generally dont believe in vampires)

stage 3: intensifying

all 4 couples had physical moments with kissing and whatever nots, admitting their feelings to each other and to themselves, coming to terms with the commitments. blah blah blah.

stage 4: integrating

the first 3 couples are part of the circle of 6. theyre formed to fight againts the vampires who aim to take over the world.. sounds damn lame, but its nice to read. so anyways, yup. so this part was very very shown in the books.

as the 3 different relationships developed in different parts, hoyt and glenna first, larkin and blair 2nd, cian and moira last, the group had to balance and shift in terms of relationship standings, acknowledgement, and identity. the network that was once of strangers and family members now had to change and become one that had interpersonal relationships. was really a web of a mess actually. but they did quite a good job integrating couples in.

even vampire pair had to have this stage as the rest of the vampire clan had to bow down to lilith as queen, and in turn lora as princes.. 2nd in command due to her closeness and relationship with lilith despite both of them having their own little lovers on the side. the clan looked upon them as a couple and the circle of 6 knew that hurting one would hurt the other just as much.

stage 5: bonding

to cut the long story short, they all got married sooner or later.

in the epilogue, they all had kids as well.

even lilith and lora had a little demon child they shared.

stage 6: differentiating

there were some conflict with larkin as blair, as they fought over whether to burn the homes of larkins people down to not allow vampires to take over them.. 

the others were quite slight disagreements, but plenty of reaffirmation of their love. plenty of communication going on throughout the story within all relationships respectively. cian and moira however found it hard to express theirs as cian doesnt really connect very well with his feelings.

since these stories are happily ever after stories....

the vampire couple died before they could reach stage 7 and 8.. actually theyve been living for several centuries.. so i doubt they ever reached that.

all the other couples didnt reach that either! except cian and moira. cian returned to his own safe world and didnt want to risk things and shrinked from his relationship with moira til towards the very end of the last book.

happily ever after still, none of them died, all of them lived in everlasting love. stage 8, 9, ad 10 are non-existence.

thats all for todays post! haha. most lilkely not have any comments due to not many people reading the book.

cept jx of course.

but hey! post anything you feel like. cheers.