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Viking
Warrior Woman,
I cannot explain the powerful magic that carried me back across the centuries to you. In my own time, I am but an actor on the screen. Yet here I stand, curiously at home in a primitive age—a Viking jarl, miraculously resurrected from the flames of oblivion. And you are my destiny, my wild and beautiful Valkyrie. You hide your pain and sadness behind a mask of scorn—but I have glimpsed your secret tenderness from the shadows and felt the radiant warmth of your love. And if I must first conquer you to have you, then conquer I shall—to win your reluctant heart now and for all eternity.
I cannot explain the powerful magic that carried me back across the centuries to you. In my own time, I am but an actor on the screen. Yet here I stand, curiously at home in a primitive age—a Viking jarl, miraculously resurrected from the flames of oblivion. And you are my destiny, my wild and beautiful Valkyrie. You hide your pain and sadness behind a mask of scorn—but I have glimpsed your secret tenderness from the shadows and felt the radiant warmth of your love. And if I must first conquer you to have you, then conquer I shall—to win your reluctant heart now and for all eternity.
404 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1994
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August 23, 2014
"For here was a woman without career objectives who could give him the babies he so dearly wanted" is an actual line from the book. A completely unironic line.
That probably tells you everything you need to know.
To justify giving the book two stars rather than one, all I can say is that its very existence made me laugh a lot. In fact, I am still sort of laughing about it.
That probably tells you everything you need to know.
To justify giving the book two stars rather than one, all I can say is that its very existence made me laugh a lot. In fact, I am still sort of laughing about it.
December 31, 2007
This book was the backup to Pirate, just in case that one wasn't frightening enough.
April 19, 2022
The couple: Viktor and Reyna
Romance genre: historical
Length: 404 pages
Plot: Marc is a successful actor with a beautiful actress girlfriend, Monica. His plan was always to marry Monica and then have her start popping out babies, but she keeps putting him off, saying things like "I'm too young for that" and "what about my career?" Even after giving her a year before he proposes seriously, she isn't ready to give up acting and become a stay-at-home wife and mom. So they break up, even though he really thinks she's the one. On the set the next day, Marc acts in a scene where his character (a Viking king) is burned in his funeral pyre. But something goes wrong and Marc is sent back in time as Viktor the Viking King, back from Valhalla. His love, Monica, is there as well, but in the incarnation of Rayna, a fierce warrior woman from a neighboring warring tribe. Viktor manages to get them together but he still has to win her heart.
Commentary: So this wasn't good. Technically speaking, the writing is fine, but the story itself plods along. There's a lot of Reyna being willful and truculent and Viktor being reasonable and accommodating. Except...that's the perspective of Viktor (despite the fact that it's 3rd person, the whole viewpoint of the story is that of Viktor). Viktor (aka Marc) desperately wants a woman to be his wife and mother of his children and to love and adore and obey him unconditionally. It's not that he's a dominant hero (he's really not - he cries at one point because he's so happy with her); it's that when he was in modern times, he wanted a throwback of a housewife, and nobody would give him that, darnnit! He really thought it would be easy to get that in Viking times. But Reyna is Monica, after all, and she has her own agenda. She's capable of taking care of herself (and honestly, the best scene in the book is when an assassin breaks into their room, she has him disarmed and restrained, but Viktor complains about her not waking him up to help and so she lets the assassin go - and he almost kills Viktor while Reyna sits there on the bed, playing with other pet). Really, the whole book is Viktor's yearning for an obedient wife while trying to impose his modern sensibilities (except for women's rights, lol) on his Viking brethren.
I couldn't read this in one sitting - I would read 10 - 20 pages, and then put it away for something else. It just dragged on.
Romance genre: historical
Length: 404 pages
Plot: Marc is a successful actor with a beautiful actress girlfriend, Monica. His plan was always to marry Monica and then have her start popping out babies, but she keeps putting him off, saying things like "I'm too young for that" and "what about my career?" Even after giving her a year before he proposes seriously, she isn't ready to give up acting and become a stay-at-home wife and mom. So they break up, even though he really thinks she's the one. On the set the next day, Marc acts in a scene where his character (a Viking king) is burned in his funeral pyre. But something goes wrong and Marc is sent back in time as Viktor the Viking King, back from Valhalla. His love, Monica, is there as well, but in the incarnation of Rayna, a fierce warrior woman from a neighboring warring tribe. Viktor manages to get them together but he still has to win her heart.
Commentary: So this wasn't good. Technically speaking, the writing is fine, but the story itself plods along. There's a lot of Reyna being willful and truculent and Viktor being reasonable and accommodating. Except...that's the perspective of Viktor (despite the fact that it's 3rd person, the whole viewpoint of the story is that of Viktor). Viktor (aka Marc) desperately wants a woman to be his wife and mother of his children and to love and adore and obey him unconditionally. It's not that he's a dominant hero (he's really not - he cries at one point because he's so happy with her); it's that when he was in modern times, he wanted a throwback of a housewife, and nobody would give him that, darnnit! He really thought it would be easy to get that in Viking times. But Reyna is Monica, after all, and she has her own agenda. She's capable of taking care of herself (and honestly, the best scene in the book is when an assassin breaks into their room, she has him disarmed and restrained, but Viktor complains about her not waking him up to help and so she lets the assassin go - and he almost kills Viktor while Reyna sits there on the bed, playing with other pet). Really, the whole book is Viktor's yearning for an obedient wife while trying to impose his modern sensibilities (except for women's rights, lol) on his Viking brethren.
I couldn't read this in one sitting - I would read 10 - 20 pages, and then put it away for something else. It just dragged on.
August 5, 2024
Reading this book was like reading the ramblings of a deranged caveman. But if you need a laugh, here's a list of every euphemism used throughout this book:
• Hardness
• Ugly, swollen member
• Prick
• A log
• Hardened his loins
• Aroused manhood
• Hard arousal
• Glorious erection
• Manhood
• Stiff manhood
• His thing
• Delicious hot shaft
• Heated loins
• Hot, solid arousal
• “He gently insinuated her thighs apart.” (WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN)
• Naked, engorged shaft
• His throbbing arousal
• His engorged shaft
• His rigid, hot member
• His distended manhood
• Delicious hard bulge
• Rock-hard, splendid erection
• His essence
• That wondrous shaft
• Turgid manhood
• His tormenting, elusive sword
• Breached her maidenhead
• Lovely, firm nethers
• Tingling breasts
• Ripe Mounds
• Her tiny bud
• Little Peaks
• Her virgin womb
• While describing her breasts: “high, shapely, and proud.”
• Tender little bud
• Womanhood
• Her snug and slick
• Narrow passage
• Her taught flesh
• Her throbbing wetness
• Warm snug sheath
• Velvety constriction
• Her intimate recesses
• Her warm center
• Smooth globes
• Downy mound
• Folds of her womanhood
• Her taut vessel
• Her tight sheath
• Her tiny vessel
• Her special, secret place
• Tender petals of her womanhood
• Hardness
• Ugly, swollen member
• Prick
• A log
• Hardened his loins
• Aroused manhood
• Hard arousal
• Glorious erection
• Manhood
• Stiff manhood
• His thing
• Delicious hot shaft
• Heated loins
• Hot, solid arousal
• “He gently insinuated her thighs apart.” (WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN)
• Naked, engorged shaft
• His throbbing arousal
• His engorged shaft
• His rigid, hot member
• His distended manhood
• Delicious hard bulge
• Rock-hard, splendid erection
• His essence
• That wondrous shaft
• Turgid manhood
• His tormenting, elusive sword
• Breached her maidenhead
• Lovely, firm nethers
• Tingling breasts
• Ripe Mounds
• Her tiny bud
• Little Peaks
• Her virgin womb
• While describing her breasts: “high, shapely, and proud.”
• Tender little bud
• Womanhood
• Her snug and slick
• Narrow passage
• Her taught flesh
• Her throbbing wetness
• Warm snug sheath
• Velvety constriction
• Her intimate recesses
• Her warm center
• Smooth globes
• Downy mound
• Folds of her womanhood
• Her taut vessel
• Her tight sheath
• Her tiny vessel
• Her special, secret place
• Tender petals of her womanhood
April 28, 2013
Bought this as a joke for a friend. She was so horrified that she actually gave it BACK to me and forced me to read it.
I will never be able to scrub my brain free of the taint. I could have gotten beyond the bad writing, the horribly contrived plot, even the bad character developmental....
Oh, who am I kidding, no I couldn't. I got a couple of chapters in and had to completely give up any hope of having any sort of sympathy for the characters. I pretty much gave up after the line, "nay, nay you can't".
Not worth keeping around even as possible masturbation material.
I keep it above my desk at work as a conversation starter. As in, "Hey, did you know Fabio wrote his own line of romance novels?" Show them the inside fold out flap of him reclining in all of his bodice ripper white jean glory. Then try to get them to read it. Just so I can see their reaction.
Two stars for sheer amusement factor.
I will never be able to scrub my brain free of the taint. I could have gotten beyond the bad writing, the horribly contrived plot, even the bad character developmental....
Oh, who am I kidding, no I couldn't. I got a couple of chapters in and had to completely give up any hope of having any sort of sympathy for the characters. I pretty much gave up after the line, "nay, nay you can't".
Not worth keeping around even as possible masturbation material.
I keep it above my desk at work as a conversation starter. As in, "Hey, did you know Fabio wrote his own line of romance novels?" Show them the inside fold out flap of him reclining in all of his bodice ripper white jean glory. Then try to get them to read it. Just so I can see their reaction.
Two stars for sheer amusement factor.
May 13, 2018
Maybe my independent nature is a problem for some people, but it plays a HUGE part in my rating of this book.
This is not a story for women who don’t want to be owned (however nice the captor might be). In fact, it would be my personal nightmare.
Here we go: cute guy wants to marry cute girl and get her pregnant. She’d rather focus on her career while she’s young. Cute guy throws a snit and wakes up in the past when women didn’t work, and then proceeds to get everything he wanted, to hell with what anyone else thinks.
Sounds more like man’s wet dream, not a bodice ripper plot.
This is not a story for women who don’t want to be owned (however nice the captor might be). In fact, it would be my personal nightmare.
Here we go: cute guy wants to marry cute girl and get her pregnant. She’d rather focus on her career while she’s young. Cute guy throws a snit and wakes up in the past when women didn’t work, and then proceeds to get everything he wanted, to hell with what anyone else thinks.
Sounds more like man’s wet dream, not a bodice ripper plot.
September 20, 2018
This work is sensuous, sexy, and wise. It's actually pretty funny, I think, if you can get over the fact that there's a 'centrefold' of Fabio ( a leader in "self-esteem," etc.) tucked neatly into the pages of the book. Of note, the book is dedicated to "all women"; I think whoever wrote this book is probably sincere in their art, and by dedicating to 'all' women, while he certainly has a particular woman in mind, perhaps this person simply thinks that in a world that is so consistenly unfair to the most vulnerable.. that often means women. SO, thank you, women everywhere, with putting up with the shit that men have been making for you .. we do not deserve your love, actually.
My one complaint: the centrefold of Fabio, does not entirely fill the wall of my bedroom .. tmi ?
:) s.
My one complaint: the centrefold of Fabio, does not entirely fill the wall of my bedroom .. tmi ?
:) s.
October 26, 2019
As someone who doesn't actually enjoy reading romances, it's hard for me to say this was a good book. I think it was probably one of Fabio's better written novels, but it was pretty annoying, to be honest. A man is sucked back in time to be mistaken for a Viking king and then spends the entire novel trying to convince his people to no longer be Vikings, and of course woo a woman who hates him. It wouldn't fly by today's standards, but during the 90s I can see why this book would have been appealing. Three stars because I can admit it actually had a plot.
Oh, and he uses the word "verily" a few hundred times. o.0
Oh, and he uses the word "verily" a few hundred times. o.0
February 13, 2026
This is shockingly bad. Entertaining at moments only due to its absolute incompetence and absolute sexism. I can't even call this 80s level sexism because this is someone's "fantasy" (EUGENIA???) where women have no thoughts head empty. And men can buy a virgin teenager who sees one penis and goes from terrified to super excited.
Also there is NO FOREPLAY. Hint: everyone needs foreplay. If you are shoving a pole in a hole both parts need prep. No foreplay and shoving a dick into an unprepped vagina is no one's fantasy. It is a nightmare.
Also there is NO FOREPLAY. Hint: everyone needs foreplay. If you are shoving a pole in a hole both parts need prep. No foreplay and shoving a dick into an unprepped vagina is no one's fantasy. It is a nightmare.
August 27, 2019
Such an interesting premise. His acting background helping him fit in to his new life. He really did seem to be a man out of step with his own time. Feeling so much more comfortable in the past, but helping to bring his people some peace and harmony into their lives.
April 18, 2024
this is genuinely the worst and most infuriating book i have ever, and probably WILL ever, read.
RIP Viktor, you would have HATED the Barbie movie
(Viktor didn’t actually die, but i wish he did)
RIP Viktor, you would have HATED the Barbie movie
(Viktor didn’t actually die, but i wish he did)
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March 26, 2023Brianna confirmed.
April 1, 2011
I have loved all of Fabio's historical romance novels, and this one was no exception. I could tell that Fabio went to great pains to research the time period the book was set in and the vivid details given made the book come alive. Would make a GREAT movie.
April 22, 2012
Nice story with good charm... I imagine myself living during the time of the Vikings and whooaaa I think I want to go back this period. This is the first book that I read so I keep on reading his books.
September 27, 2012
Bad, bad, baddy bad. I skimmed the last half of the book.
Oh, but of you are the person who gave me the book (and you know who you are), it's great! You'll love it! Here, let me give you my copy so you can get started right away! :D
Oh, but of you are the person who gave me the book (and you know who you are), it's great! You'll love it! Here, let me give you my copy so you can get started right away! :D
February 2, 2008
Isnt he just all MAN!!!
May 14, 2010
i love the fabio series, complete fluff, predictable stories and juicy sex scenes, everything a truly great "i need some escapism and fun" bodice ripper needs
January 5, 2014
Makes me want to go back in time into a new life with a hot sexy man that can tame me.
July 13, 2015
Awful!
November 1, 2015
I love this book.It is a good read.It is romantic.I loved every page of this book.Fabio is fabulous!
September 21, 2025
So bad it’s good
February 21, 2012
I guess I've read worse things than this, but I can't recall when. :P
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