Review: Just a lead up to a sex scene,  waste of time
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
This is a book review, not a book report, as such I won't go into every detail, but give my opinion and why.  Ok, so short answer, I don't like the book and can't imagine why there are glowing reviews.  Basically the whole thing was little more than the build up to a steamy sex scene, and when they finally got to that, the book ended w/a little paragraph that said everything worked out, read the next books.The basic idea of the story had merit, and could have made for a good book.  The heroine, although poor now, was from the ruling class until Vikings attack, kill her father, rapes & impregnates her & her inheritance is stolen by her brothers. Now, ostracized, she lives in a small hut along the shore where she is raising her daughter.  One day a viking is shipwrecked, and is washed ashore.  Finding a Viking, her enemy, but not wanting to be dishonorable and just kill him she keeps him prisoner.  The story got stupid after that.  So she has this viking chained up, and there he lives for a few days, no idea how long, but the guy never has to get up and relieve himself, or the story would have been over.  Instead our heroine gets the hots for the dirty, injured "salt crusted haired" enemy Viking. Everything from here on is all about the sexual tension, & her throwing herself on him.Finally after the predictable misunderstandings, they realize they love each other, not just lust after each other.  Wow, that took all of a few days.  Pretty amazing, a perfect stranger washes up on shore, one of the enemies of your country, one of the Vikings that raped you and killed your father and you keep him prisoner for a few days, then fall all over him trying to have sex.So finally we get to the moment the whole book has been leading to, a typical steamy sex scene with all it's silly, predictable descriptions.  Ok, now they're done, and they lived happily ever after.  Well ok, they didn't say happily ever after, but the end was about that abrupt.  In a small paragraph it says they were able to take back her inheritance and they lived on and if you want to more, read the other books.This was just a very short sexual fantasy.  The author had the foundation for an interesting story, but the whole thing was just sexual fantasy w/ big strong Viking man.  Now perhaps she'll write the same story with "big, stong cowboy man", and then "big, strong pirate man" and then "big strong soldier man", then "big strong Arabian sheik man"......