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ciannait76's review against another edition
4.0
Well, I'm giving this 4 stars because I just couldn't get into the second story in the book. The first was just perfect. Just what you expect from Nora Roberts.
sewcialist_librarian's review
3.0
Typical contemporary romance from Nora Roberts. Entertaining, sort of.
ssejig's review against another edition
3.0
I don't know how I hadn't read these stories before. I thought I had read all of the Nora Roberts short stories.
Irish Rebel is part of the Grant family series. In this book, Brian Donnelly is a brilliant horse trainer with a giant chip on his shoulder. He's just been hired by the famed Grant family to train their race horses. He falls into instant lust with their oldest daughter, Keeley, but assumes that she is a high society princess who spends her time in salons, not around horses. He discovers that the opposite is true and that Keeley is actually running a school that helps not only old horses but abused children as well. When she gets on the wrong side of one of the owners, Brian will have to overcome his fear of their differences and step in to make sure the woman he loves stays safe.
The second story is the reason this book got only three stars. Colin Sullivan (hence the title Sullivan's Woman) is a famous artist who sees Cassidy St. John on a pier and immediately knows that he wants her as his model. This is one of those early he-man, alpha males, weak, willing woman stories that make me slightly ill. We're supposed to see Cassidy as a new age, strong woman (at least it seems she's set up that way) but she instantly folds when Colin manhandles her.
Irish Rebel is part of the Grant family series. In this book, Brian Donnelly is a brilliant horse trainer with a giant chip on his shoulder. He's just been hired by the famed Grant family to train their race horses. He falls into instant lust with their oldest daughter, Keeley, but assumes that she is a high society princess who spends her time in salons, not around horses. He discovers that the opposite is true and that Keeley is actually running a school that helps not only old horses but abused children as well. When she gets on the wrong side of one of the owners, Brian will have to overcome his fear of their differences and step in to make sure the woman he loves stays safe.
The second story is the reason this book got only three stars. Colin Sullivan (hence the title Sullivan's Woman) is a famous artist who sees Cassidy St. John on a pier and immediately knows that he wants her as his model. This is one of those early he-man, alpha males, weak, willing woman stories that make me slightly ill. We're supposed to see Cassidy as a new age, strong woman (at least it seems she's set up that way) but she instantly folds when Colin manhandles her.
emlickliter's review against another edition
5.0
Irish Dreams: Irish Rebel / Sullivan's Woman by Nora Roberts – Though the first duology is my favorite, I love this series! Happy Reading!
letitiaharmon's review against another edition
3.0
Okay, so I read a Nora Roberts novel. I had to see what the hype was about, and also, I needed some research on a simple concept: What sells? I actually discovered the opposite of my hypothesis with Roberts. My assumption was that she would have an engaging, fun-filled story, but the writing quality would be poor. In actuality, she's a very talented writer (no Salman Rushdie by any means, of course), but her stories are quite basic and even dry. Apart from the rare erotic scene, they're not even all that steamy. So I give her three stars to cover lovely moments of literary skill, but the story is what really makes the novel, in my mind, and she doesn't have it. Not in this particular work, at least.
paperdreamsblog's review against another edition
4.0
Not a big fan of horse stories but I definately liked Sullivan's Woman, though it could have been longer was still very romantic
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