Review: DISLIKED ARIENH THE HERIONE!!!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2012
I really really hated Arienh and she brought the whole story down for me!! Arienh was saved by Ronan years earlier when his uncle forced him to help invade the village that Arienh and her family lived. Ronan saves her from being raped and killed or sold into slavery. He did this at the determent of his own life. Ronan suffers under is uncles so called care. Ronan returns years later to take Arienh as his wife thus the story begins. I understood at first why Arienh didn't trust him or any other Northman or Viking, because her father, brother and cousin had been killed by their invasion to their village and her beloved sister Birgit was raped and badly beaten, leaving her blind and pregnant. Ronan and the other Northman who accompany him set out to gain the women of the areas trust, hoping to make them wives. These women have no men to help them they are staving and their cottages are falling down. They are living in a very bad way. The Northman bring them food and start repairing the village. But oh no thats not good enough for Arienh, she takes their gifts of food and help to repair the village, but in return she and her fellow women play mean, hurtful and silly pranks on the Northman. The Northman just take this stupidity because they want the women to trust them. Eventually with all the nice things the Northman are doing for them the other women start to trust them and a few are falling in love. OH NO NOT Arienh she has to put a stop to this, because she is losing control. Ronon is patient and kind and loving and very generous to Arienh and her sister and Sexy as hell but Arienh constantly rejects him, uses him and accuses him of breaking his word to her, when she is the one breaking her promises and word. Arienh is mean, self centered and very immature. At the end when she finally excepts Ronan as her husband it wasn't believable she had done to much to damage to the relationship and I wished that Ronan had found another women in the village to make his wife. I wanted him to just dumped the stupid Arienh. This story had way to much angst, from beginning to end angst. The other side romances is what kept me reading and they were far more entertaining and realistic. I enjoyed the side stories with Birgit and Egil, Liam Birgit's son and the other characters were written very good. That's why the book gets 2 star instead of 1!!! If you like a lot of Angst then you will like this book. I didn't like it.