Her Alpha Viking by Sheryl Nantus – a Review
Description:
Some loves are bigger than this world…
Former soldier Erik Harrison is a dead man walking. The sole survivor of an ambush, the guilt of losing his friends is crushing. He questions his own sanity, remembering the vision he saw as he was dying –– a battle angel come to collect his friends’ souls.
Valkyrie Brenna Lund doesn’t know why she failed in her duty to reap Erik’s soul on the battlefield. He deserves his place with the other mighty warriors in Valhalla, and if she wants to return home, she has to kill him.
There are consequences for betraying the gods. But the closer Brenna and Erik become, the more they both want to risk everything for a future together. If only an immortal hunter weren’t sent to kill them both.
Review:
Her Alpha Viking by Sheryl Nantus opens with soldier Erik Harrison on the battlefield of war. Stuck right in the middle of an ambush, his entire unit in the throes of chaos and suffering. Erik is dying and he knows that there is little chance that he will make it out of here alive. As he lays dying a woman appears before him. She is more like a celestial being, but to him she looks like a warrior princess. She is seemingly collecting the souls of his brothers in arms. Touching each of his comrades with the tip of her spear and sending their souls to Valhalla! When she steps to him, she doesn’t touch him with her spear, as she has the others, instead she kisses him, steps back and ascends to heaven.
One year later, Erik is still fighting the ghosts of war. He spends his time as a cage fighter. Moving from city to city running from the memories of the war. That is until the the beautiful Valkyrie Brenna Lund returns to finish what she didn’t do during the ambush. Return Erik’s soul to Valhalla.
But when Brenna realizes that she can’t do it – even though she has lost her status as a Valkyrie because she allowed Erik to live. Her and Erik become the hunted by her sister Valkyrie Kara. Kara is there to complete the job that Brenna has failed to do. On the run and trying to stay alive, Erik and Brenna slowly begin to fall in love with each other.
This was a beautiful love story where the heroine is torn between her life as a Valkyrie and now her life as a mere mortal; and the man that she has given up everything for.
I enjoyed both of the main characters.
Erik is a guilt ridden veteran trying to come to terms with the loss of his unit and reconcile what he saw, when the Valkyrie came and returned his comrades to Valhalla!
Brenna has come back to earth with the mission of killing Erik and fulfilling the promise of returning his soul to the great halls of Valhalla. But once here, she realizes yet again that she just can’t do it.
Faced with the fact that she has not completed her mission nor would she be able to do it. She is not sure of the consequences she will now face as a mortal. And will she ever be able to return to her life as a Valkyrie? Does she even want to?
This story has an incredible mix of Norse mythology and romance. I love the stories of Odin and mother Freyja mixed in with the modern romance! The characters are warm and relatable. A wonderful read that I would recommend to any Norse mythology fan.
Reviewed by Erin
Copy provided by Publisher
