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Title: A Woman's Heart by Joann Ross ISBN: 1-55166-849-1 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful work by one of romance's best
Comment: Nora Fitzpatrick worries about the future of her family. She is the widowed mother of one child while raising her three siblings. Her widowed father is a noted storyteller gifted with a touch of the blarney, but he is useless when it comes to helping with the four children. Nora hopes that renting rooms to tourists will supplement her income so that the family can continue to live in the Castleough, Ireland, the home of the legendary Lady of the Lake.
American Horror writer Quinn Gallagher is the first paying guest of the Fitzpatrick family. He is visiting Ireland for the first time, a screen writer insuring that a horror film based on his current bestseller is properly adapted to the screen. When Quinn meets Nora, the attraction is felt throughout the Emerald Isle, but neither one wants to encourage it. However, with her family and the Lady in the Lake pushing it, love blossoms between the pair. Now, if both of them can overcome their past, a longtime relationship is theirs for the taking.
A WOMAN'S HEART is an exciting romance that blends elements from legends within a contemporary story line to produce a brilliant novel. The lead protagonists are charming and the support cast adds much depth to a moving and interesting book. Jo Ann Ross presents her readers with a bouquet of four leaf clovers.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Sizzling & tender romance combined with deep family values
Comment: This is probably a 4 ½ star rating. It was difficult for me to decide if it deserved four or five stars. For some reason, about halfway through the book, I put A Woman's Heart down for about a month. I don't usually do this - if I don't like it, I skim it to the end. However, once I began reading this again, within a few pages, I was in love with the hero and thought the heroine was pretty terrific as well. It did have a couple of overused romance plot lines appear but they disappeared fairly quickly. I can only presume that the story had become a little repetitive and slow as I neared the middle of the book and felt I needed a break. That is the reason I am not giving this a five star rating although the romantic leads had what it took for a top rated relationship.
Quinn Gallagher, an American with Irish roots, is a famous author and has come to Ireland with a motion picture cast and crew to assist in making a movie based on one of his renowned novels. Quinn is a hero we love with his wit, good looks, totally cool personality and fame. Accommodations are hard to find in this part of Ireland and Quinn ends up taking a room at the home of an extended Irish family who has family values and love as Quinn has never seen before. A young widow and mother of a very dear six-year-old son heads the family that also includes the widow's father, her grandmother, two of her sisters and her brother. Quinn is quite a cynical guy and can hardly believe the family interaction he sees and can scarcely bear the intimacy these people share. In fact, he avoids the domestic gatherings (he was supposed to eat his meals with the family) after first experiencing this eye-opening, honestly true-life family. You see, Quinn is a very intelligent man and has a deep understanding about life until it comes to truly knowing himself and the possibility of his involvement in a real family.
Nora Fitzpatrick, the young Irish widow, is very likable as the heroine. She is self-sacrificing as we so often see in romance writing but she is not depicted as overly sweet which is the usual tendency in writing heroines in this role. Nora is hard working and even does chores on their farm such as milk the cows. On top of all this, she is a real lady, kind, and compassionate. The contrast between Nora's constant manual farm and cooking chores and her depiction as an ever present beauty seems a stretch at times but we can only assume that this is beauty as seen in the eye of the beholder, that being Quinn, as he sees much more in Nora than her beauty.
Quinn and Nora are instantly drawn to each other. They refuse to acknowledge this although Quinn is a lot more determined to resist the attraction than Nora is. Gradually, Quinn can no longer resist the allure of Nora and her precious family and becomes involved in all of their lives. He showers them with gifts (he is a rich hero as well) and begins to believe in the prospect of a more fulfilling life than he had ever imagined. But this is romance reading, and never is anything as easy as that and Quinn and Nora have some mountains to climb. But the journeys they must take make the story that much better and leave you with a smile as you experience a sense of well-being and peacefulness.
The chemistry between Quinn and Nora jumps off the page from the very beginning. The sensual scenes are very tender and rate about a 3.5 out of 5.0 (see More About Me for rating guidelines). I think one of the most remarkable things about this book is the tenderness of Quinn and Nora's relationship further blessed by Quinn's bond with her family.
I highly recommend A Woman's Heart. Although it is primarily a sweet and sexy romance, it is also a strong story of family values and bonding. Since this is my first JoAnn Ross book, I have done some research and have discovered that she has many more delightful books for me to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A heartwarming love story.....
Comment: Joann Ross brings the reader to the Ireland countryside in this story of magic and love. Bringing together a jaded author and a woman who has known too much loss in her life, Ross will hold the reader enthralled in this tale of love.
Quinn Gallager has come to Ireland where he hopes to bring his book about an ancient Ireland legend, The Lady, to the big screen. He never expects to meet a character he created in the flesh. Ever since writing about the widowed mother, he has not been able to forget her, even though he knows she is pure fantasy. When he meets Nora Fitzpatrick, he realizes that she is his fantasy come to life. As Quinn finds himself falling for Nora, he reminds himself of his roots, which include an alcholic mother and a drunk and violent father. He convinces himself that he is not good enough for Nora and her family and nor will he ever be. What he doesn't count on is the goodness and magic of Nora and her family.
Nora Fitzpatrick is a widow who has convinced herself in the five years since her husband was killed that she had a picture perfect marriage. Meeting Quinn Gallager makes her take a second look at her life and her marriage and what she finds is less than perfect. Always the caretaker of her family, Nora decides that it is time to take care of herself and gives herself up to the love she feels for Quinn.
The story of Quinn and Nora is truly magical, reminding the reader of Nora Roberts Irish trilogy. I truly enjoyed this book and believe that if you like love stories, this one is a definite book to pick up.
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Title: Legends Lake by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0671786172 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Far Harbor by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0671027077 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Homeplace by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0671027069 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Confessions by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 1551667525 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Blue Bayou by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0743436822 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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