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Title: Return of the Border Warrior
Author: Blythe Gifford
Narrator: Cathleen McCarron
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-09-14
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Word in the Royal Court has spread that the Wild Scottish Borders are too unruly. Upon the Kings command, John Brunson must return home to persuade his family to honour the Kings call for peace.
To succeed, John knows winning over the daughter of an allied family, Cate Gilnock, holds the key.
But this intriguing beauty is beyond the powers of flattery and seduction
Members Reviews:
3 and 1/2 Stars - Unusual Scottish Historical with rape recovery as the theme
Set on the Scottish borders in 1528, this is the story of Cate Gilnock, who lives for vengeance on the man who killed her father and took her innocence.
With the Scottish borders out of control, the King orders Sir John Brunson to return home and work for peace and to bring his men to the kingâs call. John has not been home in many years and arrives to bury his father and face his angry older brother. Consumed with their grief for the loss of their chief, no one is interested in what John has to say, particularly not Cate Gilnock, who wants the Brunsons to aid her vengeance.
The story got off to a slow, sometimes repetitive start, but I hung in there and it did pick up with some suspenseful action scenes as the Brunsons seek their vengeance. Thereâs not much history in this one, but the details of life on the border were noteworthy. The heroine was never quite appealing to me and Iâm not sure why. It might have been the huge chip on her shoulder. The hero was charming enough and had the patience of Job.
The book is really about how a rape victim can find love with the right man. Itâs an unusual Scottish historical for that element.
The Brunson Clan trilogy
Return of the Warrior
Captive of the Border Lord
Taken by the Border Rebel
Well-crafted love story with believable characters
I am giving this book five stars because for a short novel it packs a lot in with no loss of coherence. Blythe Gifford tells a complete story with well-developed characters who grow through their believable relationship. By bookending the story with a made-up myth of the ancient origins of the family, she sets the scene for the lawless world of the border country.
Ms Gifford evokes our sympathy for the characters in subtle ways. While the hero John is always charming, he arrives on the scene as rather cocky. But who cannot feel his sadness as we realize, as he does, that his fatherâs death means he will never have the reconciliation he so wanted. Cate is brittle, but we soon see that this results from her determination never to be a victim again.
This novel is a brisk moving adventure with a tender love story. It is coherent and it has well-drawn supporting characters.
A Complex Story of Love, and Facing One's Fears
I love a lot of things about Blythe Gifford's books, but the thing I love best is her ability to show two people struggling with the same demon but in different ways. Return of the Border Warrior is no exception. John Brunson has been ordered by the king to return briefly to his family's world, the world that sent him to court to fend for himself when he was young. Cate Gilnock is struggling to return to an internal place of trust after being raped. The characters are strong and vulnerable by turns, and their emotions so believable as their journeys, bodies, and hearts intersect.
