Review: Emotional, historical and unexpected journey
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2012
Cherine is 18 years old French peasant, with temperamental character but unhappy life. After night attack of barbarian Viking raiders, her life changed completely. No longer a feudal servant, Cherine is choson to be sexual servant instead. Would this change bring her a hapiness???Right from the very beginning it was very clear, that this was no a traditional erotic or romance story. Savagery took me on one emotional, historical and unexpected journey. There were even thoughtful ideas about life, death and redemption. And since it is very difficult to find this stuff in erotic novels these days, I was really impressed how author balanced everything important into her story - sexiness, thoughtfulness, action, character development and exciting plot, everything was there and in right amounts.When reading a book, it is very important to get attached to characters for me to like it. And Emma MacKenzie succeed in it. She made me care for characters, root for their hapiness, worry about what will happen to them. Even though Erik the Axe was warrior and definitely not a saint, I found something sweet and sensitive in him which made me like him from the very beginning of this book. It was visible that he cared a lot for Cherine and I was rooting for him all the time. Which brings me to Rolf the Walker... the ruthless leader, arrogant person and sick beast. No matter how "alfa male" he was, I could not find him attractive or like him at all. But it is always a very good sign when author is able to make reader feel so strongly about characters, whether to make love them or hate them.I am not a fan of love triangles, but fortunatelly, what was created in this book was not a traditional love triangle since besides the Viking leader noone has a luxury of making any choices. Moreover, sex scenes were never over the top, but still hot as hell. I am glad I came across this novel and Emma MacKenzie is certainly an author to watch for.So if you do not mind some bloody action, ruthless behaviour and want some really emotional and sexy read with exciting plotline and thoughtful characters, definitely go for this one. You will not regret it! It was perfect!