The Quest for Gillian's Heart

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Summary: Another keeper from Catherine Snodgrass!
Review: How does the old saying go? "I know God, and God doesn't make junk."

I don't know what that other reviewer read, but let me say - "I know LTDBooks, and LTDBooks doesn't publish junk!"

If you love romance, you'll love QUEST FOR GILLIAN'S HEART.

Rating:
Summary: Another keeper from Catherine Snodgrass!
Review: How does the old saying go? "I know God, and God doesn't make junk."

I don't know what that other reviewer read, but let me say - "I know LTDBooks, and LTDBooks doesn't publish junk!"

If you love romance, you'll love QUEST FOR GILLIAN'S HEART.

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Summary: A True Award Winner
Review: I can understand now why this book garnered so much award recognition. This is a wonderful story of clash of cultures, religions, and love. I highly recommend it to everyone who loves a good romance.

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Summary: A real page-turner!
Review: The Quest for Gillian's Heart is a fast-paced, compelling story filled with lusty, passionate characters. The exciting Viking hero and his fiesty Irish captive are great to watch as they, much against their own wills, fall in love.

The obstacles of coming from very different cultures and the fierce competition from those who want the hero and heroine for themselves are difficult to overcome. The opposing forces don't even stop at murder.

The characters and the settings are real and believable. And Catherine Snodgrass' masterful writing has the reader pulling for Andor and Gillian until the satisfying ending.
This novel is entertaining and well worth reading. It's a keeper.

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Summary: 0 Stars is what I was looking for, but it's not an option...
Review: This is the most improbable Viking tale I've had the misfortune to start reading, and stop at 6 chapters or so...

Andor the Viking sets sail for Iceland with his wife and a band of other people looking to settle. En route a storm washes his wife, some ten others, and half their belongings off the ship. So they raid Ireland to recoup losses - the location/name of the village is not mentioned. How they capture Gillian and some slaves is not mentioned, and the only person killed is, of course, Gillian's husband. The Viking who kills him feels so bad about it, he offers his protection to Gillian and begs her forgiveness. To avoid a claim by the 'villain', Andor marries Gillian several hours after she lost a husband and a week after he lost his wife and unborn child (which he supposedly cared for). Jillian is 8 months with child herself and Andor is ecstatic when, of course, a girl is born. Meantime, Gillian the Irish peasant and Andor the Viking talk the same language - which one is not mentioned.

He showers her with gifts, milks cows for her, and tells her to take her time about sleeping with him. So sticky sweet, nurturing, and open minded that it makes the 'conflict' between protagonists even more unrealistic. It's not previous spouses or bad treatment, which would have made some sense. Instead, Andor and Gillian want each other, but he is too proud to force her and she runs away from him because it's "sinful" (quote) for him to go for second base - she who had a husband for years and a baby girl.

Littered with holes and leaps, lacking in action and logic - Snodgrass's writing is simple, tasteless, improbable, bland, disjointed, contrived... In short - yuck.