Viking Warrior Rising by Asa Marie Bradley is 99c at select vendors! It’s currently nominated for a RITA® in both the Best First Book and Paranormal Romance categories. It also spawned this hilarious DNF review from Reader K Smith:

Let’s see just how bad the epilogue is. Ooh, there’s a Valkyrie initiation ceremony?! Ladies, tell me more! Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm, thigh high boots, yup, let’s rub our hair together, okay! And…set it…on…fire…you know what, forget it, this is not going in the direction I had hoped.

And Reader Harper Gray gave it a C- grade with a very well-researched review:

When I read the blurb I thought I was going to get a Viking Age novel, not a revived-to-the-present Viking and super-human suspense novel. I’m not disappointed on that score; I’m disappointed that it started so well and then didn’t seem able to follow through on the promising beginning. The insertions of Swedish felt more out of place than atmospheric, and I thought it really strange that they would call Leif their king, and not their chief or leader. I think that Bradley’s narrative voice will likely smooth out in future books; she’s clearly a clever and capable writer. But I found the characters all pretty bland, the romance totally unconvincing and bordering on Stockholm Syndrome, and Irja, the most compelling of the Good Guys, pretty much thrown away both as a person and as a character.

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