Reviews

Viking Flame by Holley Trent

theladyinreds's review against another edition

2.0

Nadia's book is finally here! But unfortunately it didn't work well for me. The viking-viking-fairie triad finally gets together but none of it is easy, especially with everyone being caught up in their hangups and problems. I thought the romance was particularly lacking in this entry. I also thought the Thom-Jeff dynamic was abusive and shitty and it left a sour taste. I did like the "everybody bi" aspect, the fairie orgy instagator, and the ployamorous dynamics. I just wish the trio had spent more one-on-one time together, had had more time to get to know eachother, and had worked some of their shit out without outside parties forcing them.

firewhiskeyreader's review

3.0

Continuing the series storyline, but following different characters, this book felt like it was missing something that was not at all absent in the first two books of this series. Now, don't get me wrong. I still want to read literally everything in this series, which also spans two spin off's and only my crying bank account and desire to be able to eat food is preventing me from buying the entire series in one fell swoop. Anyway, this book follows Nadia, who is finally going to embrace her two fated mates (Thom and Jeff), except, Nadia has only ever been with women. Simone, from The Prince's Legacy (which in hindsight, I do wish I'd read first), is married to Heath, but has an arrangement with Heath wherein she also engages in physical activity with Thom. I feel like there were emotional beats that just were not clicking with me at all. I think because Jeff spent half the book jealous and also petulant and I didn't get his emotional arc.

tiggerreads's review

5.0

This trio was very interesting to watch. Jeff had a lot of hang-ups to get over that he didn't necessarily anticipate. Nadia had some sort of issue that wasn't really addressed. I was really wondering what was going on with her, but it was glossed over. Thom also had a big issue to take care of before they could all move forward. I liked how they worked on things a little at a time.

As for the over-arching plot, there was a big move forward. I'm super-interested in where that is going and how it got where it was.