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Summary: Entertaining read
Review: Despite quite low ratings I loved this book. It did entertain me. Merrik and Laren are ideal couple. Merrik is not like other heroes that are woman abusers. Merrik never poorly treats Laren he always keeps Laren safe even from his own brother, Erik. At first I felt that the relationship between Merrik and Laren's little brother Taby was disturbing but later Merrik shows that he loves Laren so much and he feels that Taby is his little brother. He proves that he loves Laren not because she is only Taby's sister. Their adventure is exciting. There are many intriques and twists. The tamest character could become the most dangerous murderer.
Catherine Coulter never disappoints me. Although this is not her best book but it's worth a try. Her wonderful sense of humor never let you read without laugting. You will enjoy this one as much as I did.
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Summary: boring
Review: I did not like this book at all. I found it weird that Merrick is soooo close to Tabby, Laren's brother. In the next book Lord of Falcon Ridge, Cleve tells a Duke that Merrick love his brother-in-law Tabby more than he loves his own sons. Cleve goes on to say that he hopes. Boring Merrick's son does not find that out. This book hase nothing interesting in it.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I loved Merrick. He's all that a man should be
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Summary: Are we reading a rough draft?
Review: Just in the first few paragraphs alone she makes the same point about the smell of the slave market not being quite as strong because of the cool weather 3 times. It seemed like a redundant effort to fill pages with nonesensical information. If she had a better editor who helped her catch these errors she could concentrate on making an even deeper more rich story which I believe she desperately wants to accomplish. Sorry to say I won't be reading another of her stories again.
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Summary: Are we reading a rough draft?
Review: Just in the first few paragraphs alone she makes the same point about the smell of the slave market not being quite as strong because of the cool weather 3 times. It seemed like a redundant effort to fill pages with nonesensical information. If she had a better editor who helped her catch these errors she could concentrate on making an even deeper more rich story which I believe she desperately wants to accomplish. Sorry to say I won't be reading another of her stories again.
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Summary: Best of Coulter's trilogy, but still not a great
Review: My main complaint about Hawkfell Island was Rorik, the abusive hero. In this book, he's relegated to the background, but we learn that the oldest brother, Eric, is even worse than Rorik. Makes me wonder how awful the father was...In comparison to his brothers, Merrick is a veritable saint. Even without the comparison, he's an appealing hero, save for one flaw: his devotion to the boy who will become his brother-in-law. I, too, found that relationship very disturbing. Coulter walks far too close to the edge of pedophilia for my tastes. The heroine, Laren, is all right, but she's usually a bore, even if she is doing something so daring as escaping from a slave-trader, or being a skald. I also agree that the stories she told were boring, too long, and not as thoughtful and subtle as one would have expected of a skald. After reading about 5 of Ms. Coulter's books, I've come to the conclusion that she doesn't really like her heroines, or at least not as much as she likes her heroes. Her descriptions and characters insights are much deeper for the men. The women are just...there...but somehow not there.
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Summary: The best of the Viking Trilogy
Review: This was enjoyable reading but enough with the stories already! I found myself skipping over the stories that Laren told because they simply were not interesting. But the hero, Merrick, had a good heart, and it made the book very worthwile.
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Summary: Where is the depth??
Review: Yuck - this is the very last book of Catherine Coulter's I will ever read. This Viking triology was awful. I can't believe I actually read through them all. There was no creative and entertaining dialogue. The dialogue between the characters was stilted and boring. I can't begin to describe it. I have to agree with all the other reviewers who gave these books poor reviews. If you want to read an author who can actually drag in to the story, try Judith McNaught or Kathleen Woodiwiss. With these authors, you get an in-depth story about the characters, their lives, their feelings & emotions, their growth, their surroundings, etc. Catherine Coulter does not describe her characters' actions as they're speaking. One does not know if the character speaking is speaking in jest, anger, softly, harshly or whatever. What do the characters' faces reveal when they're speaking? Are they gesticulating? What is their tone? What do their eyes reveal? You get NONE of this from Catherine Coulter. Be honest, when you're speaking with someone, all these things matter in how you yourself will interpret the words being spoken to you. Her characters' conversations are hard to follow. You get long long paragraphs of one person speaking. For instance, in each of these three Viking triologies, several instances occur where one person is telling off another. Come on, NO ONE interuppted? This person was just able to ramble on and on and on without ONE SINGLE PERSON interuppting??? Yeah, right, these Vikings, rough and ready to fight as Coulter TRIES to describe them, would willingly let a person continuing mouthing off without stopping?? Get a little creative, Coulter!! On the romance part, it was hard for me to believe in any of this Viking triolgy that romance would spring up between woman-abusers, no sharing, violence. This wasn't romance, as one other reviewer, it was about hate and violence. Coulter should read some authors who have more depth, to see what writing is really supposed to be.
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Summary: Where is the depth??
Review: Yuck - this is the very last book of Catherine Coulter's I will ever read. This Viking triology was awful. I can't believe I actually read through them all. There was no creative and entertaining dialogue. The dialogue between the characters was stilted and boring. I can't begin to describe it. I have to agree with all the other reviewers who gave these books poor reviews. If you want to read an author who can actually drag in to the story, try Judith McNaught or Kathleen Woodiwiss. With these authors, you get an in-depth story about the characters, their lives, their feelings & emotions, their growth, their surroundings, etc. Catherine Coulter does not describe her characters' actions as they're speaking. One does not know if the character speaking is speaking in jest, anger, softly, harshly or whatever. What do the characters' faces reveal when they're speaking? Are they gesticulating? What is their tone? What do their eyes reveal? You get NONE of this from Catherine Coulter. Be honest, when you're speaking with someone, all these things matter in how you yourself will interpret the words being spoken to you. Her characters' conversations are hard to follow. You get long long paragraphs of one person speaking. For instance, in each of these three Viking triologies, several instances occur where one person is telling off another. Come on, NO ONE interuppted? This person was just able to ramble on and on and on without ONE SINGLE PERSON interuppting??? Yeah, right, these Vikings, rough and ready to fight as Coulter TRIES to describe them, would willingly let a person continuing mouthing off without stopping?? Get a little creative, Coulter!! On the romance part, it was hard for me to believe in any of this Viking triolgy that romance would spring up between woman-abusers, no sharing, violence. This wasn't romance, as one other reviewer, it was about hate and violence. Coulter should read some authors who have more depth, to see what writing is really supposed to be.
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