Romance is escapist literature, and this is one book that reaches escape velocity. The rest of the story is an unlikely cocktail of kidnapping, wondering whether or not they are married, a jealous ex-girlfriend, a lecherous competitor, and so on and so forth, which eventually leads to Thorne admitting that his lust really was love. Naturally, she must have placed a spell on him, and in order to remove this magical obsession he has with her, he drags her back to Norway. Thorne the Viking is struck by lust while witnessing Fiona bathing naked on the Isle of Man. Do not even buy it, as high sales statistics will encourage the publishers to print books of this stripe ahead of readable ones. If you want to read a romance novel, do not read this book. As far as being a novel goes, the only reason it can make that claim is because it (somehow) managed to get published. I am hard put to define Viking! as a romance novel.
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