The Gift (Hardcover) [Hardcover]

Julie Garwood (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• ASIN: B000FJNZ62
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,097,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julie Garwood is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Fire and Ice, Shadow Music, Shadow Dance, Murder List, Killjoy, Mercy, Heartbreaker, Ransom, and Come the Spring. There are more than thirty-six million copies of her books in print.

Customer Reviews

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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I totally disagree!, April 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Gift (Mass Market Paperback)

I think that some of the people who wrote reviews are whining. Not the heroine of Julie Garwood's book. You have to take into consideration that Sara, the heroine, was probably a good representation of some women at that time. And a large facet of her charm and appeal is the way she grows from timid, and self conscious to mature and self-assured. In this book, the characters have been married since they were 4 and 14. They are from rival families and were ordered to marry to settle a dispute. 14 years later, Nathan comes to get Sara and start their married life. The story that follows amusingly, and touchingly, chronicles Nathan and Sara falling in love on the high seas, and fighting to keep that love on land. I thought The Gift was a great book, certainly one of the best in the series. (Speaking of the series, there are four books, not three. The Lion's Lady is the first. Then Guardian Angel, The Gift, and Castles.) The two main characters are loveable, and have good chemistry, not mention some GREAT and really witty conversations. And of course, the hot love scenes

Julie Garwood has created a thoroughly interesting plot and setting, a great cast of minor characters, and a great book! I reccomend it highly, but I also reccomend you read the books in order.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Damn it, Sara!, June 14, 2005

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Nicole Wagner (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gift (Mass Market Paperback)

I usually don't require that laughter be a part of any romance novel I read...but I was almost embarrassed by the perpetual smile I had on my face while reading this book. It has to be one of the best books I have ever read. Sara, the bumbling, innocent heroine I didn't get at first, but after I realized that her demeanor was all a coping mechanism that she developed while dealing with her horrid family. Well I couldn't help but love her cluelessness. Nathan was a marvelous hero...sigh. You know when an author gets a hero right...there is no explaination needed. I loved this book.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Garwood masterpiece!, January 27, 2001

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mirope "mirope" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gift (Mass Market Paperback)

I love Julie Garwood, and this is one of my favorites. Lady Sara Winchester is a different kind of heroine - ditzy, naive and thoroughly optomistic. She was forced to marry Nathan St. James by royal decree when she was a very young child, and has fantasized about him as her prince charming ever since. When Nathan claims his bride years later, she is in for a surprise - he is surly and mistrustful, not to mention a semi-reformed pirate and general social outcast. The story of how these two come together and learn to live with one another is hilarious. And plenty sexy! As usual, Garwood delivers!