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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  fssunnysd | Nov 1, 2009 |  Opening Sentence: '…Obviously, without question, she had lost her mind…’ The first of her Irish Trilogy 'The Gallagher's of Ardmore" - this is a book filled with romance and fantasy. we meet Jude Frances Murray, a professor from Chicago. After a short-lived marriage she realises that the life she is living isn't for her, she runs off to Ireland to find herself. While there she meets Aidan Gallagher, who runs the local pub. While Jewels Of The Sun centers around Jude and Aidan falling in love, it also involves a tale of Gwen and Carrick. Gwen being a ghost from centuries ago searching for her lost love, Carrick is the lost love - the king of the faerie. if you have ever been to Ireland you will realise that ghosts and faerie folk are quite normal - so was not at all put out to see them in the story. I have fallen in love with the whole gang in the book, and can't wait to finish the rest of the series and see what happens with out the rest of the Gallagher siblings - Shawn and Darcy. Nora Roberts has caught Ireland exactly, the strong blend between the real and the unreal. (  ) sally906 | Aug 7, 2009 | I liked this more for the Irish accents. The love story was eh - I liked secondary characters more than the main characters. Jude, the woman, was especially boring... (  ) kayceel | Dec 13, 2008 | ktoonen | May 6, 2008 | Good entertaining story. The Irish characters were bursting merrily out of the pages,charming Jude Frances, who has come to Ardmore from Chicago to write a thesis on Irish folklore and to get over a divorce. She installs herself in her grandmother's cottage and is soon attracting the eye of the local pub landlord, Aiden. ( ) gogglemiss | Apr 19, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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Jude has returned to her grandmother's ancestral home to sort out her thoughts, know her heart, and "find Jude F. Murray in six months or less." After a life of deliberate security, Jude finds herself recovering from a failed marriage and a disappointing career. With the pretense of a research expedition, Jude leaves her life in Chicago and moves into the charming house on top of the faerie hill. Surrounded by the awesome scenery and relieved by the simplicity of life, Jude excuses her visions of ghosts and faeries as signs of her mental recovery.
But the inhabitants of Ardmore, and Aidan Gallagher in particular, don't dismiss these apparitions with such convenient logic, and Jude learns to listen more carefully to the messages in the world. As Aidan and Jude draw closer to each other, Jude struggles to discover, balance, and define the complex parts of her soul.
In the character of Jude Murray, Nora Roberts has created a sophisticated woman whose internal development from skittish recluse to confident lover is realistic and convincing. Carefully avoiding the "good man is a solution to all problems" plot, Roberts lets Jude and Aidan interact and develop individually, as well as together as a couple. While this modern tone is refreshing, it feels a bit at odds with the supernatural, faerie themes. As this is the first in a series about the Gallagher siblings and the faerie legend, perhaps these thematic contradictions will sort themselves out in the subsequent novels. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien
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When Jude meets Aidan Gallagher, romance is in the air, and all things seem possible.
Not Roberts best series, nor even her best Irish trilogy, but worth a cozy curl-up nonetheless. (