Review: Interesting idea, poorly executed.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2011
I understand that a time travel romance novel is not going to be Shakespeare but I would appreciate at least some form of logic. I can't begin to tell you how many things bugged me about this story. Besides the atrocious spelling and grammar, the plot and characters were just plain silly. Kat went from being obnoxious (which obviously translated to strength) to being a victim (which somehow translated to softness and a resilient spirit). The dialogue was terrible. Leafy boy? Buster?Seriously does anyone talk like that?There is also the glaring fact that a 21st century woman kept excusing absolutely heinous actions by her new warm and fuzzy slave-trading, child-murdering, woman-raping family because they didn't make her sleep with the other livestock (read: people).As far as I'm concerned, coercing her into having sex before he told her that she wouldn't be allowed to keep her child was just another example of what a great guy Leif was. At every opportunity to believe in her, her "husband" failed but in Kat's mind that was all right because, apparently when you've got piercing blue eyes and a six-pack, you can squeeze your wife's face so hard she cries and it's taken as a sign of what a passionate, conflicted, deep man you are. Am I the only one who wondered what happened to the plotline of Kat being erased from existence if her ancestor was killed? Leif was such a strong leader that he quaked in his buckskin boots every time he thought his warriors might think he wasn't tough? And where, oh where, did the ancient Norse get potatoes?? I could go on, but you get the idea.