I found it a bit distasteful, because that type of 'romance' where the woman is longing for big, hulking dude to sweep her up in his arms and kill/threaten men has to be exceptionally well written to appeal to me. It feels like romance novel shlock- if the cover had been of Sarkis á la Fabio style with his gleaming muscles showing and long hair waving in the wind (maybe a maiden swooning in the periphery), I would not have been surprised. I kissed her and she was totally into it but I can't be sure that she was truly into it because she might feel coerced by my big, strong muscles.Īnd over, and over, and over again. How could she ever want a man in a sword? All I've got is my big, strong muscles. Sarkis: I can't believe I, a big strong muscly man in a sword, am falling in love with this large-breasted curvy gorgeous woman. I find his way of intimidating people with violence very attractive. My goodness he's got big, strong muscles. He kissed me on the lips but he probably did that out of pity.
He probably doesn't want me because I'm fat and ugly and asks so many questions. Halla: I can't believe I, a blushing widow, is falling in love with a man in a sword. Here's the formula, repeat it on loop (until the end of the book I assume). I'm not an avid romance book reader, but I'm not averse to it either. It doesn't help a lot of said "funny" is just humour centered on how airheaded/random she is. It becomes obvious she's the author's mouthpiece for "funny". That's the likely reason why the humour falls flat Halla's background has none or very little impact on her personality and thus everything she says feels like it comes from someone else, like she's being told lines through an earpiece. Yes, I'm aware she sometimes uses the humour/pretends to be dumber than she is as a sort of defense, but overall, if I'd never been told all of the things above I would never have guessed it. You wouldn't know any of these things, because she essentially talks and thinks like a peppy 17-year old modern girl who hasn't spent decades in misery.
I think it might be the disconnect I feel between the language used and the main character, Halla, who is a mid-thirties childless widow who has spent time in an unhappy marriage, taken care of a sickly uncle and spends her time being bullied by relatives. In theory it should be, because the writing can be clever and witty, but it seldom strikes a chord with me. The book doesn't care about it so there's no reason to mention much of it.įor one, the book isn't very funny.
Normally I'd not review a book I didn't finish fully, but I've never seen anyone have anything bad to say about the book on r/fantasy so I'd still like to just summarize why I think it's not very good.
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