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Title: Waste of a read!
Review: I was given this and Born in Ice by my mother in law, who thought I would enjoy reading novels set in Ireland, where I am from - I cringed through reading this book, the use of dialect was nothing more than Shakespearean Irish - if Nora Roberts actually visited Ireland, I would like to know where she found the characters that actually spoke like this at all - it was an infuriating mix of the country woman, Maggie, speaking old Irish and the main love interest, Rogan, speaking as Irish people speak today. The storyline was a good premise for a novel of glass artist Maggie meeting up with city art dealer Rogan, however, if you are going to write about a country that is not your native own, steer away from the stereotypical tourist imagery and be realistic. Needless to say, I did not bother reading Born in Ice and both copies went to a Salvation Army store.
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