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The Viking In My Bed (2012)

by Jan Irving(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

085715933X (ISBN13: 9780857159335)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Total E-Bound

series

Lightning Strikes

review 1: 2.5 StarsLet me just start by saying how very disappointed I am from this book. Reading the title “The Viking In My Bed” and the blurb I truly got excited and couldn’t wait till I got it on my hands. But you know what they say: Don’t get your expectations too high…So let’s see. Bailey is a college student, he studies… God knows, that has to do with graphics? Yes! His professor (she’s also a big bad demon wannabe) gives him some old Celtic graphs to study and while Bailey’s playing with them he creates a summoning portal!!! But he doesn’t know it so the next morning he wakes up with big, horny Viking licking his… arm! Telling him that he want to make him his… woman!!! Here is where my stomach churns but hey I kept reading. Bailey, although shocked, t... moreakes it in the stride believing it must be a joke from his friends due to his birthday. And while Freyr (the Viking) apparently knows no other way of communication beside roaring and bellowing that Baily is “the guide” and he is “the guardian” and big bad things are coming after them (no reason on why all that is happening is given btw), BFF Candy shows up to calm things down by… grooming Freyr, conditioning and cropping his hair. Got excited so far? So they get convinced that Freyr’s the real thing by his nasty scars. Now except Freyr there are other creatures coming after them from the void… The guardian fights and keeps the guide safe. Baily learns that his professor manipulated him into creating the portal so she could be possessed by the Whisperer and then control his powers. Uhmm yes something like that! So ultimately what guardian/guide need to do, is go get the graphic, reopen the portal, send demons/guardian back and all clear. And here is my best part so far. All this happen during one day time. Freyr of course makes Bailey his woman and conquers him by… spanking him!! Oh, and Bailey falls for Freyr cause Freyr made him look him in the eyes while they were lovemaking!!!The D/s scenes that we were being warned about, yeah!! I think this part of the book was what made me want to cry the most. So after falling in love with Freyr, Bailey has no intention of letting him go. He and his friends make up a plan and armed with molotovs they go after the professor… Well, the end, it is after all a love story!!!All in all, I was expecting an adventure and didn’t got one. I was expecting some hot sexual scenes and didn’t get any. I was expecting some love story and what I got instead was some cheesy star-crossed lovers’ cliché. In one word I found the book lacking! I won’t even bother recommending this for laughs and giggles or as a parody. It’s a no, no and a hell no from me.
review 2: Cute and fluffy, if also totally derivative.Bailey wakes up with a naked Viking in his bed that he 'accidentally' called through some kind of rune. His friend Candy always seems to be reading J.R. Ward books, which is a nod in the wrong direction since this book feels like a m/m re-make of Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon to me.I'm not saying it's a rip - it just feels like it's been done before, and if you've read Fantasy Lover, the whole 'who are you, you hot naked anachronist?' feels kind of familiar.It is cute and fluffy and the uber-attractive leads have lots and lots of Jan Irving sex, so if that's your thing, you should really enjoy this one. Just don't read it right after reading something written by Bailey Bradford which is what I did. I kept getting weirdly squicked out thinking about the 'real' author Bailey having sex with the fictional Norseman Freyer. less

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