Review: Five-star romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
First of all, Ms. Holt has a way with setting up a novel rife with conflict.  Forced to masquerade as her sister, by her father, (because women were chattel in the middle ages, ugh) Catriona tries to escape her home castle during an invasion.  Nearly raped by a Norseman, she is rescued and then kidnapped by another norseman (she thinks, anyway).  And all that's just the first two chapters, folks...Ms. Holt builds up chemistry like nothing I've ever seen.  I had serious feelings for the characters.  FEELINGS.  I loved them, I hated them, I needed them to get together.  I was super invested in this story, even though I thought I knew what was going to happen.  I love Samantha's treatment of women's issues during the time period.Honestly, I kept forgetting I was reviewing this book, so I don't have many notes...but this was a great book.  It swept me into the story, and had me fighting for Finn and Catriona.  One thing I will note that I LOVED, was that Finn didn't get all high and mighty when he finds out she had been pretending to be her sister.  I could have kissed him for that.  Hell, I'd kiss him anyway, but that was refreshing, not creating conflict just to have more.