Review: Malice Striker
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
This is book 1 in the Viking Vengeance Story by Jianne Carlo and we meet each of the three Viking brothers.  The story is interesting and the characters are well written.  My only complaint is that I would liked to have had an epilogue or a better ending.  It just stopped.  With that being said, there are three books and once you have read all three of the brothers stories then all is revealed.  The books are (Malice Stiker, Death Blow, and Vengeance Hammer).  The characters are all reunited in the final book Vengeance Hammer for an explosive ending.  I would recommend reading each of the books but do so in the order that they are written.Summary:When Scotland's King Kenneth orders his death and kidnaps his sister, the Viking Brökk--the Malice Striker--plans his vengeance: he'll steal the king's bastard daughter from Sumbarten Abbey and use her to buy his sister's freedom. But his schemes go awry when his liege lord commands him to wed Skatha--and when he finds five women instead of one at the Abbey, none will claim the King as father.When the Viking abducts Skatha and her women, she's bewildered. Why did Brökk seize her? Why does he want her for his wife? She weds him willingly enough when he threatens to kill her companions, but she vows to control her own destiny and escape. For if the Viking discovers her secrets, the laws of his people will force him to cast her aside...or kill her. And even Skatha, daughter of a goddess, might not escape the Viking's wrath.