Review: Tiresome!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2012
If you want a super soppy, unrealistic, unsubstantiated story line then this is your book!  However, if like me you are looking for a book that is romantic yet believable while managing to capture and hold your worthy attention then respectfully pass quickly because this book is not a worthy read.  It's a burst in my opinion!The book started with very promising dialogue and i was instantly captivated.  However, once the beginning was explained, the book quickly took a nose dive for the worse!  I found the heroine tiresome - for a slave girl in that era she acted way superior to her station although she was well-born she's a slave nonetheless.  The story was told in all of about 8weeks if that!  The heroine was not only outspoken but the fierce warrior who purchased her radically became a powerless wanna-be warrior whom i came to dislike for his weakness.  We were told the heroine feared the hero from the outset but we never see his fierceness especially being controlled by a slave girl; it also seems he could not even control his intended bride. I grew to realy dislike the book as the dialogue became weaker and weaker as the pages progressed.To make matters worse the hero did not act in anyway like a viking!  It was really sad to see the book lack proper direction save to the one conclusive end - the reuniting with the heroine's family which is a mean feat to say the least.  Back in the viking days it was near impossible to chart maps much less chart the slave girl's settlement back to where she was abducted.  The story was way too soppy for my liking and as such i found the hero way too effeminate especially for a viking!  The book never really took off for me and it was a sad disaapointment!  Please pass and look for books by Kathryn Le Vecque.