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    Season of the Sun
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    Season of the Sun
    Audiobook11 hours

    Season of the Sun

    Written by Catherine Coulter

    Narrated by Anne Flosnik

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Dear Listener:

    Season of the Sun first appeared in 1991. Zarabeth, with hair as red as an Irish sunset, is chosen by Magnus Haraldsson, a Viking on a trading visit to York, to be his wife. She is both stunned and fascinated by this man's bluntness, his arrogance, his absolute belief that she is meant to belong to him. He also makes her laugh and ultimately she gives him her trust, not only with her future but with that of her little sister, Lotti. But Zarabeth's stepfather, Olav the Vain, has no intention of setting a bride price on Zarabeth.

    Zarabeth does eventually return with Magnus to his farmstead in Norway, but as his slave, not as his wife. She wears the slave collar around her neck for all to see, but hides her own pain deep within her.

    It is the season of the sun in Norway, the clear midnight life of summer, the season of growth and flowering, of treachery and malice. It was the season of growth for a man and a woman to learn of each other and themselves.

    I hope you enjoy Zarabeth and Magnus. Write me at P.O. Box 17, Mill Valley, CA 94942 or e-mail me at ReadMoi@gmail.com.

    God lessing!-Good reading!

    Catherine Coulter

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781469254173
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    Season of the Sun
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    Catherine Coulter

    Catherine Coulter is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ninety-two novels including the FBI suspense thriller series and A Brit in the FBI international thriller series, co-written with the brilliant author J.T. Ellison. Coulter lives in Sausalito, California, with her Übermensch husband. She hikes daily and posts wide-ranging photos of her beautiful area.

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    • 1/5
      Uhhhhh..... this made no sense. I seriously did not understand the heroine at all. Not romantic, just sad.
    • 3/5
      This book disappointed me, well researched until Zarabeth was using potatoes. And now that I write it, all the viking names appeared to be well researched, but there is no Z in Irish and she is established as Irish. Her mother remarries a trader from York (not Yorvik, no, York), and the story features rape as seduction. Basically a few chapters in I was annoyed with the characters and wanted to watch some episodes of Vikings to wash the disappointment out. Zarabeth is in York parenting her sister, Lotti, who is deaf, because her mother is dead, Olav the Vain was her mother's husband and he lusts after her.using Lotti as a tool to keep her in check. When she meets Magnus, a viking, who offers her a way out, but Olav blocks her joy, when Olav dies under mysterious circumstances Magnus takes his revenge on her rejection by taking her as his slave.Because he wants her, none of her objections work for him, not even her tears. His needs triumph. His sister behaves like a complete bitch several times over. Some actual talking to each other might have gone a long way, I'm not sure that it would be a healthy long-term relationship.And doesn't it have the ugliest cover ever, this was published in 2000.Honestly it left a bad taste.
    • 2/5
      Ugh. It may be partly me, and the mood I'm in - I've read and (as I recall) enjoyed Coulter before - but this read really bad. The characters, where they aren't cardboard, are modern people in fancy dress - everything from Magnus giving himself affirmations before he spoke to Zarabeth, to modesty in front of a child, is very out of period. The setting is reasonably accurate, which only made the attitudes jar more. There's also a heavy reliance on rape, by the hero on the heroine - even if she enjoys it, it's still rape if she's unwilling. A lot of stupid behavior, a lot of even stupider motivations for said behavior - honestly, I was wondering if Ingunn had a brain tumor or something (and if so, how they would find out). And a sweet little deus ex machina to devalue the biggest change in both their lives. I'm glad I read it, because now I don't ever have to read it again. I'll try a few more Coulters, particularly as I think this was an early one of hers, but if this is her level I won't be reading her any more.
    • 4/5
      Zarabeth, lives in York with her step father and her step brother and younger sister. Zarabeth has yet to find a spouse, due to the fact that her step father chases most of her suitors away, until a warrior viking comes into town and starts courting her and wanting to marry her. At first Zarabeth is shocked at Magnus at his bluntness at wanting her for his wife and lover, but is intrigued and knows that she wants him as well, because he stirs up her senses like none other has ever done before. But when her step father finds out her true feelings for Magnus, he forces her to betray him threatening to hurt someone she cares for, so she does it, not knowing another way out. But then he comes back and takes her back to Norway as his slave, instead of his wife as he had once planned, however things never seem to go as planned. And Magnus despite her betrayal of him, can't deny the desire that she rises within him, more so than any other woman ever has. However things at home only get more hectic once he brings her to his home, and things between the two defnitely get heated, which could only end up in love. I truly enjoyed Season of the Sun, although I never know when I read Coulter's book if I am going to be able to really enjoy them and immerse myself into the stories, but with this one, I had it read it just a few hours. Crazy I know, but when I like a book, I truly immerse myself and before I know it, its at "The End" part and I look at the time, and its just crazy how fast I can read once I get into a story. I just love Viking romances and this is at the top of my list. Although I thought that throughout the story that there was some things missing from the book. I don't want to spoil the book too much so I wont however share any details, but I thought that there seemed to be a few things in the relationship between these two that I had issues with. However overall it was a great romance read, well written, with vivid characters and a intriguing plot, so defnitely if you like Viking Historical Romances you definitely don't want to miss out on this one or this series!!
    • 2/5
      Dragged on and on really. Didn't care for characters, and the plot was dull and annoying.
    • 5/5
      Pick this up for free from a swap and just LOVED it ... fell in love from the first few pages ... not sure why but the romance mixed with violence mixed with love mixed with all the misunderstandings that seems to haunt our everyday lives ... it just captured me. I couldn't put it down. Read it the first night !