Review: More Romances like this PLEASE!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2012
Story Rating 4 StarsCharacter Rating 4 StarsRomance Rating 4 StarsHeat Level 4 StarsFavorite Character, AlexaOverall Rating 4 StarsI truly wish there were more of these types of Medieval Romances out that are offered in ebook form. Amber Dane wrote a really good romance that I thoroughly enjoyed from the first page to the last.The theme of this book has been done many of times but it's a theme that has always' attracted me to medieval romances. The theme is the kings merciless Knight get's awarded and given land with a bride in tow. Rourke the hero is feared far and wide, they don't call him The Dark Axe for nothing. When he arrives there to take his place and his bride, his only intention is to get his heir from her and nothing more. Alexa the heroine is a proud feisty woman with her mind set on getting rid of the Norman Bastard that the King has ordered her to wed. She is not afraid of this HUGE and handsome warrior of a man with his scary frowns and bellowing voice. She defies him at every turn even taking a sword to his throat a time or two during this story. She never backs down and he just gets more ruthless towards her and her behavior to the point that he ends up tying her to her bed and later after she attempts to escape he goes as far as to using chains to secure her. The night after they wed, he consummates the marriage, taking her maidenhead and claiming her his bride. Even though they have hatred for each other, the lust their body's feel for each other is not denied. The love scenes are very sensuous and this story has just the right amount of heat that I so enjoy in my romances.Of course with most of these medieval romances their are plenty of evil villains running around to contend with. The action this added to the story was really good and made it hard for me to put the book down. As each one is dealt with and both of our H&h;'s have been in harms way their feelings for each other grow. I must add that if your a faint of heart reader some of the scenes may be a bit violent for some readers.At the end of course we get our HEA and an epilog which makes me happy. I do so look forwards to the next book in this series but I must admit that this is book 2 and I read them out of order so I of course plan on getting book 1 Gem Of Gravane in the very near future and reading it too. I usually don't read a series out of order but I can say that in doing so in this case was fine and if this book sounds good for you and you want to read it I can say that it reads fine as a stand alone. Be warned though because if you do read Conquering The Dark Axe and enjoy it as much as I have your going to want to read more of Amber Danes book's too.I recommend Conquering The Bad Axe to any romance readers who have read and enjoyed Bodice Ripper style romances from the 80's.(less)