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Title: Fair Haven by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0-671-78611-3 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fair Haven - Great Book!
Comment: JoAnn Ross continues her adventures of the people of Coldwater Cove (FAR HARBOR, HOMEPLACE) with her newest book FAIR HAVEN. It is a remarkable story of love. Not just the romantic love, but love of a father, love for a friend, love for mankind, and a love that transcends time. Deeply moving!
Michael Joyce has spent most of his career looking through the camera lens at the horrible suffering of those caught up in a world at war. Wounded and burned out, Michael returns to his family's farm in the small Irish village of Castlelough. He is only looking for peace. Michael can't escape his ghosts that easily. He finds that the atrocities of war have not left his hometown unscathed. His childhood friend, Dr. Tom Flannery is dying of the effects of being gassed years earlier while working as a medical relief doctor. Then Michael 's ex-lover is gunned down in Belfast leaving him with an eight-year-old daughter he never knew existed. Shea's presence changes Michael forever. He is surprised to learn that his heart was not left with most of his blood in Sarevjo. Especially when he meets Erin O'Halloran.
Dr. Erin O'Halloran leaves the small Washington town of Coldwater Cove to travel across the country and an ocean to help her best friend and colleague, Tom Flannery. Erin has lived and worked among the emaciated bodies of refugees the world over, but is unprepared for Tom's thin haggard appearance. She is determined to save him and his surgery. Only after a few hours in Ireland, Erin feels like she has come home to Castlelough and to the brooding Michael Joyce.
In the magical village of Castlelough, Erin's and Michael's nightmares of war have a chance to turn into the centuries old dreams that they both mysteriously share.
Mere words of praise cannot express the myriad of emotions I felt while reading this book. The heartrending images JoAnn Ross' words conjured in my mind will stay with me for sometime. I applaud her style of storytelling. She never lets the reader rest. The next page must be read .....and the next.....and the next. Husband, laundry, and dishes are forgotten until the last page is turned. The sights, sounds, and fragrances of Ireland waft from the pages of this wonderful tale. The author's blending of ghosts, fairies, and Irish legend with the stark reality of today's world only adds to the intense effect of this story.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Riveting emotional and spiritual turmoil!
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful romance
Comment: After working in some rough spots around the world for six years, Dr. Erin O'Halloran settles in Coldwater Cove near Seattle. However, when close friend Tom Flannery is dying, Erin immediately crosses the continent and the ocean to try to save his life.
After spending years photographing and reporting some of the worst atrocities in the world, Michael Joyce returns to his family's remote farm to escape. Michael's psyche is so battered he has vowed to never sire a child into this ugly, cruel world.
When Erin and Michael meet, the instant attraction is so great, a magic enchantment surrounds the pair. However Neither one wants a lasting relationship because they know first hand the horrors of humanity. When they fall in love they wonder if that emotion is enough to surmount the cruelty that each one has witnessed in their lifetime?
FAIR HAVEN is a remarkable contemporary romance starring two battered souls. Though love heals much of their mental wounds, both realize that they will never forget. That extra measure is what makes a JoAnn Ross novel so good. Her characters are real, filled with angst, and earn the audience empathy. Michael and Erin are a joy to behold because even when love proves stronger than hate, the memories of the evil events shaped them into beautiful people the reader cares about.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: The love between friends can be that strong!
Comment: This was my 1st JoAnn Ross to read- and it won't be my last! After arriving home to spend some time with her family, Dr. Erin O'Halloran receives a request from a dear friend to travel to Western Ireland. After years of working on the front lines of war, Dr. Tom Flanner is now dying at a young age from the effects of gas warfare. He says that his reason for requesting her to come is for her to help with his medical practice as he slowly loses his strength and becomes bedridden but there's a hidden agenda.
Michael Joyce has come home after spending years as a Pulitzer Prize Award photographer from the front lines of war needing to recover physically and emotionally from the effects of war. He has escaped to his family farm but the ghosts are even there. His childhood friend Dr. Tom Flannery is dying. While Michael is having to face the future loss of his best friend Tom, he is approached by his old girlfriend's mother accompanied by a little girl. He discovers that the past girlfriend/lover was killed in a bombing at her wedding and has left a daughter who she claimed was Michael's by blood. Michael who never wanted to marry, much less have kids, now finds himself with a daughter he did not know existed to raise.
After leaving Coldwater Cove, Washington, Erin travels across the world to Castlelough, Ireland. She is introduced to Michael at the airport by Tom and her first impression of Michael is one of his being a cold- hard man. But as time goes by she learns that he does have a warm heart and they have a lot in common from what they both experienced with war. As time goes by Erin feels she has come home and known Michael forever, which can not be since they just met- and there is a little mystery there that I will leave for the reader.
It is a story of the love between friends, father-daughter, lovers, family, etc. The setting being in Ireland is delightful. I really enjoyed this story! and highly recommend it to the reader. I will go back and get the prequel A Woman's Heart- I enjoyed the story that much.
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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: A Woman's Heart by Joann Ross ISBN: 1551668491 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 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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Title: River Road by JoAnn Ross ISBN: 0743436830 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 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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