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Summary: Entertaining...
Review: I must admit that this is a great book. After the first page, I was hooked. The story illustrates a Viking ship going to raid a place but the occupants of the ship suffered an ambush instead. Some died, some hurt and some captured. Kristen was on the ship with his brother. She was one of the captured. As she was dressed like a lad, she was of course treated like a lad. The captor, Royce, thought it weird that every one of the prisioners would try to shield this lad of any harm. Soon, the truth was out, and she was discovered to be to a girl.The is an enjoyable story of two people with very strong characters.
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Summary: one of the best books I 've ever read
Review: I own this book and I have read it at least 7 times.Each time I read it, it's as if I'm reading it for the first time! The characters are unforgetable.The powerful attraction between Royce and Kristen is so realistic you can feel it. From start to finish the story flows and keeps you hanging on to every word. It is definately one of the best of Johanna Lindsay.
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Summary: My first Lindsey
Review: I picked up this book in a hotel gift shop many years ago, and it was the first book I had ever read by Johanna Lindsey. Since then I have bought up everything she has written. While her recent books are entertaining, they do not seem to have the same heart-wrenching quality as some of her earlier work. If you like what you've read in her recent work, try this as well as Secret Fire, and The Fires of Winter.
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Summary: The All-Time Best!
Review: I read lots and lots and LOTS of romance books, and I rank this one as #1. Royce is undoubtedly the best hero ever created. He lacked for nothing. Every line he spoke was perfect. Kristen was perfect for him! She was a great, lovely heroine. The story ended far too soon. I could have read more about these two! The secondary characters were simply wonderful. Actually, I liked Kristen's parents much more in this book than I did in their own story, which was a little mundane. This is certainly a rereadable story.
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Summary: Not one of my favorites
Review: I read this book after I had already read "Surrender My Love", which is Selig's story. After that great book I couldn't wait to get my hands on the other stories. Well I was thoroughly disappointed with this book. All I kept thinking throughout the entire book was what a jerk Royce was. I just couldn't get past that. Don't get me wrong! I love Johanna Lindsey, and I don't think she can ever write a bad book. Her dialouge, wit, and humour is always apparent. Yet, this book just didn't cut it for me. I do recommend this book with a 3 star rating, but I also recommend reading the trilogy in order. Don't start at the end like I did.
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Summary: Misleading
Review: I was mislead into believing that this book would be a captivating love story. Much to my dismay, it was not nearly so. When I read the excerpt, I just had to have it. It appeared that Kristine was a strong-willed and firey woman. I'll admit that she could rumble with the best of men. But she became so utterly submissive for Royce, I was disgusted. He treated her like crap to me. For almost the whole book he was engaged to another woman, while bedding Kristine practically every night. He was a jerk.
I liked how bold Kristine was with him. She is one of the few heroines who is not ashamed to desire a man and show it. The fighting scenes between her and practically the whole household were hysterical and entertaining. Still, Royce's lack of moral and emotion (besides anger, resentment and jealousy) were a bit much.
If you want to read a story about a strong-willed woman and steamy love scenes, read "Lord of a Thousand Nights" by Madeline Hunter.
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Summary: JOHANNA LINDSEY'S BEST
Review: I'm a big fan of Johanna Lindsey and have read many of her books because of the way she mixes real romance and eroticism with adventure. HEARTS AFLAME is the best one yet. The beautiful Viking, Kristen, stows away on ship with her brothers and clansmen to enjoy adventure before she's forced to marry one of the locals who she definitely does not love. But on this voyage, she, posing as a lad, and her crew are captured and enslaved by Lord Royce, who hates Vikings for personal reasons. Soon Lord Royce finds out the true sex of Kristen and orders her into his home as a shackled servant. But Kristen is proud, unyeilding and unashamed, vowing that her Viking father will come and rescue her and her clansmen. Royce is, against his will, drawn to Kristen and her unbreakable spirit. She proves herself to be the opposite of everything he expected. The two of them begin to want each other. Kristen readily admits it because she has been taught the normalcy of sexuality. Royce can't because to do so would only mean that he'd allowed Kristen to have power over him. The coming together of these two is nothing less than beautiful. Soon Kristen wonders that, if her father comes to rescue her, will she really want to leave this new place.
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Summary: The Best in Romance
Review: I've always been a Johanna Linsey fan but I must confess that this is the book that started it all. After reading this I just knew that I had to read the rest of her books! Kristen and Royce are a wonderful couple.
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Summary: Great!
Review: I've read this book 13 times... can't seem to get enough of it... Royce and Kristen are a great couple because they are both warriors and are both lovers. There's is a great story I think everyone should read!
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Summary: Hearts On Fire . . .
Review: In this spectacular sequel to Ms. Lindsey's classic _Fires Of Winter_, we are introduced to Brenna and Garrick's daughter, Kristen.
Beautiful Kristen Haardrad has waited many years to find a man she can love. She's searched among the countless men in her country but has yet to find one to stir her heart. When she hears of her brother Selig's plan to take their father's ship merchanting, she thinks it will be the perfect opportunity to seek a love in a new land. Her parents are against the idea, thinking it unwise for a young lady to travel aboard a ship full of lustful Viking men. But, as the reader soon finds out, Kristen is in fact her mother's daughter. She takes matters into her own hands and stows away on the ship, thinking it will be a grand adventure and the chance she's been waiting for to find her heartmate. Unbeknownst to her, the young Vikings are *not* going away to try their hand at being merchants, but have decided to raid a Saxon monastery before the Dane's can steal all the wealth of the land for themselves. As soon as the ship docks in Wessex things do not go as planned. The Saxons attack the Vikings and take the survivors (including Kristen disguised as a boy) back to Wyndhurst Hall as prisoners.
Royce of Wyndhurst has suffered great loss at the hands of Viking raiders and has little mercy for the captives brought to him for judgment until one of his men suggests that they could be used to build up the defenses of the keep and ward off future attacks. He reluctantly agrees, but keeps a watchful eye on the slaves in case of a rebellion that would cause the deaths of his people. He notices a puny boy among the powerful Viking men and is intrigued when those men show such care for the lad. Thinking that this young man must be their leader he has the boy whipped, only to find out that the boy is, in fact, a woman. Stunned by the statuesque beauty he has enslaved, Royce mistakenly assumes she must have sold herself to the Viking men to ease their long and lonely voyage. He's disgusted by her nationality and low morals and tries his hardest to use that as a buffer against his attraction to her. It doesn't take him long to succumb to her enticing offers, though, and soon it doesn't matter what sort of woman she is, only that she's *his* woman.
I've read nearly all of Ms. Lindsey's work and I'd have to say that this one tops my favorites list. The characters (both new and from the previous book), the humor, the passion and the angst all add up to an amazing story that will have you laughing out loud one minute and crying the next. Kristen and Royce play off each other very well -- their characters are well matched and most of the time you'll be unsure who's the master and who's the slave. Every scene is well thought out and essential to the book, but the end of the book, in particular, is hilarious and such a fitting way to bring Brenna and Garrick back into the story that it's nearly impossible to put down. You'll be thanking your lucky stars that there's another book in the series (_Surrender My Love_).
I'm sure I'm not the only one who hopes Ms. Lindsey intends to write about some of the other characters introduced in this book. Royce's sister Meghan, his cousin Alden, and Kristen's younger brothers Eric and Thorall would all make wonderful additions to an already outstanding series.
If you've never read these books, don't wait any longer to fall in love with Johanna Lindsey's Vikings.
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