Bex (Beckie Bookworm)'s Reviews > The Warlord's Wife

This wasn’t perfect but I mostly enjoyed it genre-wise it’s a historical romance set in the twelfth century our heroine Lida returns home to her family in Finland after being cast out by her deceased husband's relatives for becoming pregnant before marriage (it’s her late husband's child). Eights years later she’s offered marriage by Jarl Magnus Knutson a powerful Viking warlord. For the sake of her daughter, she accepts and returns home with him to his fortress The Iron Kingdom.

I definitely liked the premise of this one I’m a sucker for arranged marriage story’s and it’s been a while since I’ve sunk my teeth into a historical one. My main issue with this story though is Lida herself she accepts the union between them isn’t forced in any way but then behaves as if she’s under duress. She creates roadblocks and has grievances that just aren’t that logical instead of embracing the chance of future happiness and a fresh start.

Yes, Magnus is definitely a man of his time he’s arrogant slightly overbearing and certainly likes his own way in most things. He’s also stubborn set in his ways at times overbearing and can be rather jealous. But he was also upfront from the start about what he expects in a wife and whilst he’s all of these things he isn’t in any way cruel or even has any unreasonable demands in fact he’s a total sweetie to Katya Lida’s daughter which did score him major brownie points with me and when he does finally succumb to his new wife and daughters many charms he’s all in. I should also point out Lida did agree to all of Magnus’s expectations beforehand so I don’t get what her issue is.
The only time Magnus does do something that she would have had every right to feel maligned about she’s totally fine about it didn’t even ask for an apology which she so should have done I just didn’t get her.

We have drama. intrigue and betrayal, unreasonable behaviour and also some danger thrown in just for good measure. This was definitely a story of two halves and the second part of this was definitely the most exciting bit for me. This one is also definitely on the spicier side which was another plus in its favour. Overall this had positives and negatives with the good definitely winning out. I also really appreciated the lyrical language this used. I’m probably going to read the next book in the series at some point in the future as well.



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