Okay so I'll admit, despite my love of Daughter of the Pirate King, I was a little thrown by how short this was when I got it considering it was a standalone. However, I've just realized that Levenseller's has this amazing ability to write concisely without underdevelopment the world and characters. The only thing I "didn't get" in this book was how her mother acted.

The mc definitely didn't have the humour of Alosa but she's just as likeable and is just as betrayed. Of you read the summary, you know she gets betrayed so I was immediately on the look out for it but it still shocked me!

The romance...is absolutely adorable and I love that it's secondary to her achieving her goal. She also isn't overly dramatic about the betrayal at the beginning to the point it affects all her relationships. She just has to get a better grasp of who and when to trust people.

I think it did lack a bit of the history element. Basically all we got was "she's a Viking" so you just...filled in the historical elements BUT...this was a little weird. There's a lot of modern sexist hierarchy in the societies which kind of threw me. I also immediately compared it mentally to The Valiant and Sky in the Deep which seemed to just have a stronger comprehension and infusion of that Viking culture.