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Book Blurb

What’s a Viking to do when he ends up on a Florida beach, surrounded by a world he doesn’t understand, with a hyperactive stockbroker as his only guide? Go back to Chase’s hotel, naturally.

Chase thinks Bjorn is eccentric at best, a lunatic at worst, or just maybe the real thing: a Viking from the days of yore. It isn’t easy for Bjorn to admit, but he needs Chase’s help to navigate the confusing modern age. While Chase is trying to clean Bjorn up and help him fit in, Bjorn’s sworn enemy also makes the trek through time. Jorund is eager to plunder this new land and finish the job of killing Bjorn’s family line, all in one blow. Bjorn and Chase will have to set aside their vast differences and work together if either of them wants to survive.

NOTE: This book was previously published by Torquere Press in October 2007.

Book Review

This is an amusing, much-too-short story about Bjorn, a Viking who timetravels into the modern age and not only tries to understand what has happened to him, but also has to see if he can fit into a strange new world. The way Bjorn looks at and comments on the modern world is hilarious. Chase, a hyperactive stock market trader on holiday and the man who 'finds' Bjorn, decides to help the Viking get his bearings. The passionate way these two men interact, once they figure out how to relate to each other, held me captivated. I'd love to read more about them, see if they can develop their relationship beyond the glimpse I got at the very end of the story.

Bjorn is a bona fide Viking from the year 975, a tough guy to the max, and mostly interested in amassing treasure to bring back to his father, the local jarl in the Norwegian village Bjorn calls home. His enemy, a bad guy called Jorund plus any insulting moniker Bjorn can think of, ends up killing Bjorn’s father and chasing Bjorn across the sea. That is when some freak of nature (or a god) causes both Bjorn and Jorund to travel over a thousand years into the future and Bjorn faces a reality he never could have imagined.

Chase is stressed out and has been ordered to take a vacation. When he jogs along the Florida coast and finds a half-drowned man in primitive clothing, he assumes the guy is into cosplay or maybe has a few screws loose. But the longer they interact, the clearer it becomes that a lot more is going on than Chase assumed. He introduces Bjorn to the necessity of a shower –hilarious, pizza – which Bjorn decides to devour by himself, and the comforts of a soft bed. The physical activity they get up to there is truly explosive and makes both men realize they were probably meant to be together.

If you enjoy a good timetravel tale, if you have always wondered how a man from over a millennium ago would react to modern life, and if you’re looking for a read that is funny, touching, and contains some scorching bedplay, then you will probably like this novella. It’s very imaginative and might just make you laugh out loud.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 56 pages/17840 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	19-October-2016
Price	$3.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/a-viking-by-kiernan-kelly-7654-b