Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖 
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋 
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔 
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡ 
Romance: 💞💞💞💞 
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋 
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥 
Humor: Yes 
Perspective: First person heroine, third hero. Majority is the heroine’s perspective. 

Basic plot: 

We have a parallel universe – and everyone has a twin. Sjofn and Seoafin are switching places for 1 million dollars. Seoafin has been searching for adventure and this seems like the one of a lifetime. As they switch and Seoafin is plopped into a wedding ceremony with a huge, angry fiance that hates her, she realizes that Sjofn has left out some things in their communication. 

Give this a try if you want: 

- Fantasy romance – like I said above parallel universe with many similarities but plenty of differences too. It feels ‘historical’ in that the transport is ships and horses, candles and fires instead of lights 

- Great mix of romance, steam, and plot. It’s pretty dispersed throughout. 

- Medium to higher steam – there’s a number of scenes, many were on the shorter side, or fade to black, but there’s still plenty of full scenes. 

- You’re okay with some violence, gore, and grief 

- Captured/arranged marriage/forced marriage feel – heroine is thrown into a wedding ceremony and has no opportunity to say no 

- Royalty main characters – Finnie is a princess and Frey is the leader of his house 

Ages: 

- Hero is 36 but I couldn’t find how old the heroine is. I want to say early 20s? 

My thoughts: 

This book was exactly what I needed, I think. I usually read historical romance and this was just different enough from historical, but still similar with the lack of modern inventions. 

The hero, Frey, can be a total jerk. When you think of the stereotypical alpha character, he fits that in the beginning of the book. He’s a huge warrior, he does what he wants and expects everyone to obey him. He isn’t sweet or tender with Finnie at first. At first. But I got to see the most wonderful melting towards each other as the book went on and I absolutely fell in love with Frey. He becomes so protective, tender, caring, and sweet. And while he crosses the line of relationship consent (not sexually) I forgave him – because I love him. 

Finnie was a delight. I really loved her character. She was happy, spunky, and resourceful. She was the perfect mix of being able to get things done, but needing assistance in this new world too. I think I fell in love with her when she was dropped off at a cabin and abandoned and she took care of business. I really just loved this couple so, so much. 

I do think the ending felt kind of wrapped up quickly and rushed. There were some major issues at play here, and yes when you’re faced with death and grief maybe it puts those issues in perspective to not matter – still I just felt it was kind of glanced over after being such a big problem in their relationship. 

I loved that Frey didn’t shy away from his love. He expressed it regularly, even if he doesn’t say it right away. 

The intimate scenes – I wish I had more full ones. The tension was so, so good. So good. I adored it. And then when we got full sex, I was just a touch disappointed. It felt like it was more rushed, or it was beginning well into the scene, or it would cut the black after the beginning. I just wanted pages and pages of details haha. Still, I was content with it. (I’m just greedy about good intimate scenes) 

I had some minor complaints about the writing – but again this is probably because I’m coming from reading 99% historical romance. So reading things repeatedly, like “ohmygod” “that’s so cool” “you’re so hot” “ohmygodohmygodohmygod!” “he’s so hot! Look how hot he is!” “oh boy” was kind of frustrating for me. But that’s totally a personal preference and honestly it didn’t bother me that much, overall. 

This book is written in first person perspective from the heroine’s point of view and third for the hero’s. Honestly, it flowed pretty well for me. (I am a third person only lover!) 

Content Warnings: 

Loss of parents remembered 

Death on page 

Violence 

Talk of traditions resulting in rape (not on page, I believe it’s referencing book 2 customs) 

Hunting scenes, use fur and pelts 

Child abuse – alluded to 

 

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes – I probably missed some because I was so into reading this! But I think I got all the ‘full’ scenes: 

Pg 89 – kisses, touches, and light fingering that’s interrupted 

Pg 119 – kisses 

Pg 197 🔥 – kisses and missionary sex 

Pg 204 🔥 - missionary but he goes very slow until she orgasms, refusing to go harder 

Pg 224 – fade to black 

Pg 290 🔥 - oral for her, oral for him (incomplete), then missionary sex while under the powers of an aphrodisiac tea 

Pg 334 – her on top, then alluded to sex (It’s pretty short) 

Pg 355 🔥 - missionary sex