Review: In Love With A Viking
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
***Received from Mad in Wonderland for an honest review***Kaireen is set to be wed...to a Viking of all men, and she's less than pleased. She takes every opportunity possible to make her contempt for the man and her refusal to wed known. Bram, her betrothed, is more than pleased with the arrangement. He steals kisses and embraces while pledging his faithfulness and devotion to her.I admired Kaireen's reluctance to marry, especially to a man considered the enemy, but her constant verbal refusals became annoying. It became a broken record until I wondered when or if Bram would throw in the towel and stop his pursuit of her. He didn't force himself on her, didn't hurt her, didn't tell her in any uncertain terms that he would take up a mistress after they were married. His wooing of her was gentle and consistent, his promises sincere. But nothing seemed good enough for her because it wasn't what she wanted.The greatest turning point was when he saved her niece and went back in to save her sister's husband, who was already dead but he didn't know it. She could've left him to die; it would've solved her betrothal problems. But she didn't. She went after him, to save him. But even then, she said she would not marry him.Love has a way of creeping up on a person though. It works its way into someone's heart without them knowing it, and it often takes near-tragedy for them to realize how much the other person means to them. Kaireen had to go through that heart-wrenching moment with Bram. A part of me wished she had accepted the inevitable and given him a chance sooner, but another part of me was glad things played out the way they did. She's stubborn as hell and probably wouldn't have understood what Bram had come to mean to her.I would've loved to see more of Bram in this story. The glimpses I had of him weren't enough. I loved Kaireen's POV and more of Bram would have balanced it out. Still, Ms. Cooper has written a beautiful love story during an era I don't usually read about and filled it with action, adventure, suspense, and romance.