Review: As An Attempted Imitation, It's Ok
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
A story about a warrior who thinks love is a weakness and fights it hard and a heroine who is timid at first and then blooms under the hero's protection. Characters are as easy to like, fierce warriors and loyal followers, the good and the bad guys clearly separated so not much mystery, the presence of a mistress (which is widely accepted at the time period) and a heroine loved by all - in my opinion.Some editorial problems - not much but there are enough to stop the flow of the story for me more than once. There is also the same and predicted turns on the plots and characters' thought pattern that so reminded me of M. Garwoods books - this author has not originality at all.**possible spoiler**But there is one big glaring INSULT to readers that is worth mentioning: a character supposedly broke the skull at the back of his head from a fall and after the healer in the story tended to him, he is up and about the next three days and riding his horse ready for battle.I am not educated to work in a medical office but even me knows that is a very impossible feat even to a very fit warrior. Now if he is a supernatural character, yes but to a normal person...NO!I loved the heroine at first but when she became purer than Mother Theresa (by begging for the life of a character who is already proven twice as a murderer) she became too much of a saint and a caricature for me to truly believe.All I can say for this book is, it could have been a good immitation.