Review: May I Have Some Whine With My Warrior
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2011
It's more 3.5 stars than 4, for reasons the others have stated.Olivia literally gets on your last nerve, to the point you feel so sorry for Baird being tied to such a bratty little girl.  Why is such silly, low behavior considered acceptable females in romance?  Why isn't strength, courage and responsibility fostered?  Self sacrifice, fortitude and resourcefulness?  Instead we get 'Omigod!  DRAMA!' over-emoting on the part of a female who really isn't up for being told they're out of fries at McD's, much less, "you're mated for life because, well, dems da breaks".  As someone else put it so well, Olivia needed to put on her big girl panties by at least midpoint in the book and just get over herself.  That plus a terminal case of stupid made it so that by the end of the book, I simply disliked her.  Really disliked her.Granted, understand why the author may have used the classic 'resist until the end' trope so X could lead to Y happening.  However, I think she could have gotten there in another way, without sacrificing the female character's dignity or the readers patience.Also, Baird's speach patterns were jaringly 'off', making him sound like a middle school boy trying to sound cool instead of this great warrior and adult.  However, in the book, he does exhibit tremendous patience and maturity in spite of sounding like "Whoa! Trippin' balls man!"  cool (doesn't work).I will read the rest of the series and I do enjoy the author's writing style for the most part.  I do hope that the next female is more mature and less 'all about me' diva.  Saved and will be re-read.  Thanks!