Review: Lackluster writing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2014
At the beginning I liked this story and these characters.  So much so, that I continued to read long after the story started to drag, meander meaninglessly and become boring.  I kept going because I wanted actually get to the point where the Viking deflowered his witch. This would have been better as a novella.  Instead the author had the lovers constantly interrupted on the brink of fulfillment by someone yelling and pounding on the bedroom door. Note to author: this gets old when it happens over and over.  The storyline was lacking in imagination and creativity.  The Viking comes to the island searching for a cousin who has disappeared.  He finds a witch that was to be burned at the stake by a bunch of narrow minded, superstitious, ignorant villagers led by a crazy man, and that's where it sits.  There are good characters that could have made the story much better, but they were not used to best advantage.  The story became a repetition of look for the cousin, argue with mates, question the villagers, and the formula romance where now you love him- now you don't, now you fight him- now you submit. I was really let down by the author.  I liked the Viking and as confusingly written as the witch was, I liked her too.  I even liked the Berserkers.  The author wrote a drab book using some really interesting characters. What a waste.