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Summary: A Captivating Time Travel Story!
Review: A wife and mother with a successful career discovers her husband can no longer put up with the fights and the neglect. He leaves her and so starts her adventure through time. In the violent world of vikings she finds her husband going by a different name, but he knows her not. She tries to win his heart and in doing so, she realizes why her husband left her. Will she be able to travel back through time to win him back? Will she even want to go back to the future with his viking version so near and dear to her?
From the first page this book captivated me. I felt every emotion Ruby experienced. The frustration, the jealousy, the desperation, the joy. I fell madly in love with Jack and Thork, but was so angry at Thork at times, I thought I would throw the book across the room. Instead, I kept flipping the pages.
I laughed, I cried, and I laughed and cried some more. I cherished this book thouroughly and finished it in record time. Two days after I opened it for the first time, I have just finished. I woke my fiance with my sobs. You see, he is my viking and I saw so much of him in this novel. I'm sure you'll see your man too, or atleast the viking version of him. More crude, more muscular, more violent, more insufferable, with a deep need to be loved. Thork was such a real character. He was a true viking (violent, a lady's man, fiercely loyal to his family and his honor).
The first Sandra Hill novel I read, I really disliked. It took me a over a year to pick up another of her books. Thankfully I gave her a second chance. I LOVE this book as I do so many of her novels! It's not as funny as many of her other books. It's actually quite sad in parts. But the tragic elements are what make it so wonderful to me. I highly recommend this one. And if you want another novel by this great author that will have you laughing so hard you cry, you have to read The Last Viking. Thank you Sandra Hill!
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Summary: a good book but left me wanting a bit more
Review: I always enjoy a Sandra Hill romance, and I did enjoy this one. I love her Viking tales. She brings to life the harsh realities that they faced and gives us just enough actual historical background without making it seem like a history book. I like that she adds humor and passion to her books equally. This book was enjoyable but it did leave me kind of wanting. I just felt like there was something missing. I'm not really sure what though.
This is the story of Ruby Jordan, a modern day 38 yr old woman with two kids, a marriage that is failing and a busy business selling and making lingerie. Her husband of 20 years leaves her and she falls to pieces. She is listening to a self motivational tape when she is suddenly flung back in time to the time of the Vikings. There she meets Thork, the look-a-like to her husband Jack. He thinks her a spy and almost kills her. She soon realizes that no one believes her tale of being from the future and that her very life is really in peril. She must learn to adapt to her new life and its harsh surroundings. Thork is not very nice to her even though he is highly attracted to her and she to him. Of course she tries to tell him that he is her husband and that they have been married 20 years ut he can't believe her because he's never married and has no intention of ever doing so and the fact that she appears to him as 18 again. There is a lot of humor and a lot of tense moments where you aren't really sure what will happen next. I did enjoy this book and plan to read all her other books soon.
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Summary: NOT her best
Review: I can't believe that "The Reluctant Viking" was Ms. Hill's first book. A friend first gave me "Frankly my Dear", and then I read several others before I began the Viking series. I've liked everything of hers that I've read, but her first book (so far) is the most moving thing I've ever read (and I've already read it 3 times). I am a fan for life! Coincidentally, my husband works for a company called VIKING Freight, so I've especially enjoyed the 'Viking' series!
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Summary: Her best work!!!
Review: I can't believe that "The Reluctant Viking" was Ms. Hill's first book. A friend first gave me "Frankly my Dear", and then I read several others before I began the Viking series. I've liked everything of hers that I've read, but her first book (so far) is the most moving thing I've ever read (and I've already read it 3 times). I am a fan for life! Coincidentally, my husband works for a company called VIKING Freight, so I've especially enjoyed the 'Viking' series!
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Summary: Eh...
Review: I had decided to read TRV because I wanted to read a funny book with lots of hot sex. Well.... I didn't find this book as humorous as I've found the other SH books I've read. In fact, by the end I was pretty much depressed!!! I'd rate the book as "ok" but not great. It didn't live up to everything I had heard about this series.
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Summary: 5 star story for first in the Viking series...
Review: I have to admit, this isn't as funny as her other books, but I still loved it and thought it was EXCELLENT. The history in this book is outstanding and very accurate. The story is about a woman named Ruby Jordan. It's the year 1994 and her husband Jack of 20 years walks out. Ruby is distraught and confused. She sits back and listens to a tape to calm her emotions when suddenly she wakes up in the 10th century and aboard a Viking ship! Ruby sees a man that looks EXACTLY like Jack, but this man is a powerful Viking with long blonde hair named Thork. He thinks she is a spy sent by his enemy to destroy him and the village. No one believes she is from the future and Ruby tries to convince everyone she is married to Thork in another life, this is when everyone believes she is insane. The story takes us through the turmoil the Vikings went through and shows us they are a fierce and proud people, but also a gentle and loving people. We get to meet the characters from the other books in the series. Although I was upset with Thork's fate, I liked the ending a lot. What happened to him was meant to be and it touches your heart. This is the first book in the Viking Series. Here they are in order---'The Reluctant Viking', 'The Outlaw Viking', 'The Tarnished Lady', and 'The Bewitched Viking'. Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: The Viking Series
Review: I loved the series because it is DIFFERENT from the standard historical romance. The characters are great and the author is a great storyteller.
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Summary: Fantastic start to a great series
Review: I really loved this book,the characters Ruby and Thork I really warmed to and I disagreed with the reviewer that said if you like Danelle Steel then you will like this;I cannot stand her books, but I liked the wit and humor in this story,so much so I have now bought all Sandra Hill's books.I liked the banter between Ruby and Thork,if Ruby and Thork had hit it off from the beginning there would have not been much point to the story.This is a really great read not at all like your traditional historical romance story,if your fed up with the traditional historical romance type book then buy this.
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Summary: A great read
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can recommend it to anyone who loves a good romance tale. It had me laughing one minute and crying the next. I have re-read the book three times and enjoyed it every time.
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Summary: Another great from Sandra
Review: I was in tears reading this book, from laughter. I had tears of sadness at Thorks destiny. Even thought he was not very nice to Ruby until the end, he is still a man to die for. You are never disapointed by Sandra's hero's. Ruby's antics in the 10th. century are absolutely hillarious. The things she got up to were totally unbelievable, like giving women contraception advice, starting her own lingerie business. The ending had me in stitches while she was trying to seduce Jack into coming back to her. If you love a book that will make you laugh and cry this book is the one, but saying that all the books i've read of Sandra's make me feel this way. Great read Sandra!!!!!!!
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