Instead of just showing character dialogue when they curse or talk dirty, oftentimes Hill just says something vague almost as a placeholder for cursing. Once you get far enough into the book, there are some sex scenes, but up to and around that point, this is an oddly prudish romance novel. Yuck.įurthermore, Hill (in this and The Reluctant Viking) seems strangely unwilling to actually explicitly represent certain things. At the beginning of the book, Tyra is an independent woman, leading her men effectively, enjoying her life, and Adam finds her immensely attractive as she is nonetheless, the trajectory of the book is the process of transforming Tyra from Viking warrior princess to a woman Adam could accept as mother of his children and healing assistant. The male protagonist, Adam, is almost likeable (he's a doctor and good with kids) but for his insistence that Tyra be other than she is. Tyra's sisters are all silly and neatly pigeonholed by their obsessive hobbies (one cooks, one cleans, one builds, one gardens). She's constantly mentally putting herself down and thinking she's ugly and unfeminine-even though no one else seems to be working to give her this impression. Not only does she know nothing about sex (she's a virgin, which is fine, but seriously, she has never heard anybody talk about sex, not even her many, many, many sisters? Or her warrior traveling companions?), but she seems almost completely lacking in self-awareness. The female protagonist, Tyra, is twenty-five years old, a warrior, and supposedly intelligent, but she reads like a twelve-year-old. The worst thing about this book is the dullness of the characters. I only picked it up occasionally to read when my brain was too worn out to read anything more challenging (and because I was determined to finish-I hate not finishing a book).
In fact, this was so dull that it took me about a week to read it because I just couldn't care less about what was happening.
Apparently, these are supposed to be funny? I keep reading other people's reviews that say so, but I'm just not seeing it. I didn't hate this as much as I did The Reluctant Viking because it wasn't so explicitly anti-feminist (though it still had a troubling approach to gender), but this book was actually far less interesting. I have never read such a *boring* romance novel.
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