- Hardcover: 481 pages
- Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (July 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786296585
- ISBN-13: 978-0786296583
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
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From Publishers Weekly
Fleeing a tyrant, young Torolf Magnusson and his family accidentally time-travel from the 11th-century Norselands to modern-day America. They adapt so well that, years later, he's become a navy SEAL determined to return to his home time and right old wrongs. A group of special forces buddies, viewing the adventure as a lark, insist on going with him—and land in the midst of a Viking women's sanctuary whose residents, though they despise men, are eager for children. Hilarious cultural misunderstandings and outlandish sex scenes follow, along with a budding romance between Torolf and the sanctuary leader, strong-minded Hilda Berdottir. Though Hill's plot requires some major suspension of disbelief, her attention to the details of SEAL operations and Viking life provide a welcome measure of credibility as the men and their new allies work to dispatch the villain. A clichéd evil scientist plot weakens the latter half of the book, but Hilda's comical adventures in present-day California and a highly satisfying end more than compensate. Hill's fertile imagination and ribald erotic touches, previously employed in more than a dozen historical and paranormal romances (including The Very Virile Viking), should further expand the popularity of this bestselling author. (Dec.)
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*Starred Review* Torolf Magnusson is determined to find and destroy Steinolf, a monster who is raping, torturing, and slaughtering his way across Norseland. The problem is, Torolf lives in the twenty-first century, and Steinolf is an eleven-century evildoer. But this doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem to Torolf, who has time-traveled before. His U.S. Navy SEAL buddies insist on going along, although they think the entire time-travel ploy is a joke. Meanwhile, Hilda Berdottir has led a group of women who have been brutalized by Steinolf to a remote keep. Five years later, the women are longing for men, not to keep them safe, but to give them children. Enter the SEALS. While Torolf, who had known Hilda as a child, finds himself drawn to her, the SEALs train the women in the art of warfare and slowly begin to realize this isn't a reenactment attraction for tourists, and that these women are really something. Exciting, unexpectedly erotic, and entertaining, Hill has added another winner to her series of fantastic tales of time-traveling Norsemen and the women bold and bawdy enough to love them. Shelley Mosley
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what did I just read?, Mar 12 2012
By Soleil - Published on Amazon.com
I'm still sitting here going "what did I just read... and why?" after that. It's laughable. This is more of a comedy than a romance novel. It's the laughing stock on tumblr due to her.... poor choice of phrasing. I mean, d*ck Parkinson's... really? I mean REALLY? Is that the best you can come up with? The favorite to laugh at that I've seen is the line about how "he entered her like the lottery." Wow. I just.. there aren't enough words in the world to describe this book. I'm unsure how it got through the publisher's without them going "what.. the.." at some of these lines.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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same ole same ole same ole, April 1 2010
By La Blue Eyes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rough and Ready (Hardcover)
This is the third book I've read in this series. The first one was Wet and Wild and I found it hilarious, but after reading the next two books I've gotten really bored and impatient with this series. I'm really surprised by how many positive reviews this book has gotten, because aside from the plot, its basically the same story and characterization that was repeated in the previous two. The jokes are all the same, the women are all the same, the insults are all the same, the men are certainly all the same.1. The women are shrews. They are one tantrum after another. Page after page of the heroine walking around with clenched fists and being so mad, "she couldn't speak" (yeah right) that it's amazing they don't have high blood pressure. It quickly gets to the point that I couldn't care less what the heroine is PMSing over now. The women are also stupid and irrational who get themselves kidnapped and held at gunpoint simply because they don't want to be ordered about and to prove this literally walk into such situations (this happens in this book). Yet despite all this, these women have friends up the wazoo and champions ready to fight for the death for them.
2. The men are just as bad only this time their masochistic sex addicts. It got really tiresome reading one description after another of a woman's body. Fine, I get it, they've only got sex on the brain! They never take anything seriously, these are well trained soldiers, but they act like complete goofballs. Some heroes. Its impossible to truly believe that they could take anyone seriously enough to love them and want only them.
3. The last book the heroine screamed one insult after another, mainly lout, lecher and troll. In this book the heroine screams out one insult after another mainly....yep you guessed it, lout, lecher and troll. I suppose originality and individualism are overrated.
4. The books contain a lot of dirty sex which made me blush. It got very tiresome when the women spend all night rolling in the sheets then deny they even enjoyed themselves the next morning so the men follow them around like dogs in heat. Honesty must also be overrated.
All in all this book was just a repeat of the previous one, same personalities different names.
If I didn't already own the next one in this series, I wouldn't bother reading it. Let me just take a wild guess what it will be about - a guy who only wants to sleep around and a woman who yells a lot.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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okay but not terrific, Dec 11 2006
By R. Crane - Published on Amazon.com
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Sandra Hill is a fantastic writer with a superb sense of humor. She has created a world of Viking time travelers that has been very successful, and an immmensely relaxing read. This is not one of those fabulous books. It is okay. But, that is the problem, it is just "okay" compared to the others in the series. The plots and jokes are getting thin and repetitve. Her stories of this period were unique, now they are a little boring. What is not boring and what saves the story is her increasing amount of detail about SEAL life and the people who create the SEAL landscape are always interesting. Perhaps she should create a modern series devoted to SEALs, special forces and the like, for she brings to the public a look into their lives and training that is not genereally discussed in such novels.Her other series are also excellent, the cajuns and recently the Jinx books. If you are not acquainted with her Vikings do start with the earlier ones.
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