Rating: 
Summary: Violent.
Review: Not long ago, I watched a special on " PBS " viewing the Viking onslaught into new territories, taking into account the tales of violence, plunder, and rape. Similar facts must have helped Catherine Coulter write this book. This novel may entice the reader's interest, but it is a violent story. The male lead, Magnus Haraldsson, is a rugged, handsome Viking. On a trading mission to York, Haraldsson encounters a beautiful, statuesque, redhead known as Zarabeth and the warrior wants her! And Zarabeth wants him! Now the issue, Catherine Coulter may have written a book but she didn't fill it with romance. Zarabeth has the "smarts" of a turnip; easily her lustful stepfather manipulates her. Sorrowfully Zarabeth rejects the marriage offer made by her dashing Viking warrior. With revenge and hatred, a subdued Magnus buys Zarabeth for his slave. Sadly, Zarabeth realizes Magnus Haraldsson has changed . . . . --- "Zarabeth . . . I am going to take you, and I don't wish you to fight me" . . . He gritted his teeth . . . her eyes were no longer vague . . . there was only fear now, and he smiled . . . "Now, hold still" . . . he felt her fists pounding at his chest . . . but he didn't stop . . . she was crying." - - - This is rape. Catherine Coulter has truly written a disturbing story. They published the edition I read in 1991 and the story followed the same guidelines all romance novels of the era seemed to follow. Thank you authors for moving forward into today's style -- stories showing flexible storylines -- characters existing on equal playing fields. Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Reading
Review: This book was good. There was a lot of violence and the need to be the master as Magnus' character portrayed, but he warms and is able to see another side of Zarabeth. He finds that he does still love her. It's a nice story that makes one feel a lot of different emotions to all of the characters in the story, but it also captivates and describes well the time period and what it was like.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Reading
Review: This book was good. There was a lot of violence and the need to be the master as Magnus' character portrayed, but he warms and is able to see another side of Zarabeth. He finds that he does still love her. It's a nice story that makes one feel a lot of different emotions to all of the characters in the story, but it also captivates and describes well the time period and what it was like.
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