Review: A Vikings Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
I battled between giving this book 3 or 4 stars.  Overall the plot line was good and it was loaded with interesting characters and events but sometimes the author gave too much information.  There were times when I was skipping pages to move the story along.  The passion between the lead characters jumped right off the page it was so fiery.  However this isn't your typical happy ever after love story.  There are some brutal elements to this story that involve rape, betrayal, family strive, disloyalty.  This couple definitely has to fight for their happy ending.  For the price this is a good read and I would recommend it.Summary:Allisande of Lockwraithe paid the price for her father's treachery when the Viking invaders destroyed her home and abducted her for ransom.  The Viking leader, Joran Ivarsson, swore to make her suffer as his slave. One look into his fiery slave's eyes and he was the one enslaved.  Allisande expected to suffer at her captors hands, not feel the first stirrings of desire for her barbaric new master.  Forced into slavery in a harsh, unyielding land, she comes to understand the man who owns her. Sworn to hate him forever for the death of her father, Allisande learns the insidious truths that make her question all she has ever known.Joran the Stonehearted, he is nicknamed, for his lack of softness for women and mercy in battle. Allisande undermines his best intentions to remain aloof to her, cracking the granite layers of his heart, making him question his using her as an instrument of revenge.  Slave soon conquers master as the fires of passion bring them closer. A force of wills clash and a tragic circumstance drives them apart.  Allisande and Joran become embroiled in a bitter web of deceit when Joran's father seeks his ultimate revenge against his enemies. Joran must choose between the woman who owns his heart and the father he has sworn loyalty to.