There are plenty of revolting baddies in this saga, not the least of which is the dumb-as-a-post "hero" torn between his hateful revenge against the heroine based on a long list of imagined grievances, and his inexplicable lust for her. Not that the villainy stops with those characters. In Season of the Sun, an awkward, bizarre, Viking bodice-ripper best left on the shelf, we get not one but two insane, shrieking, harpies who spend their time torturing and plotting the demise of their sister-in-law, the heroine. If you believe that authors (consciously or subconsciously) get inspired from their private lives before putting pen to paper, then I wonder if Catherine Coulter had a big grudge against her sister-in-law. Heads up, it's not a romantic, butterflies in your stomach kind of syndrome. Any person Who has been so brutalized and degraded by their captor, but then falls in love with them is suffering from this syndrome. Any other woman would have killed herself 10 times over halfway through the book.įourth, for all you youngsters who read this book when you were like 13 and thought it was romantic I'm going to teach you a new word - It's called Stockholm syndrome.
Third, The endless barrage of verbal abuse and incessant threats of violence on a daily basis could only be endured by a heroine in this Gross mischaracterization of a romance novel. I'm talking tear the skin off your back whippings, bust your lip bitch slaps, choke you till you pass out, MULTIPLE brutal pussy tearing rapes while you're balling and screaming NO, wearing a metal slave collar around your neck savage I'm talking Sigmund Freud, Oedipus complex, slap from your mama therapy. It is a season of growth and flowering, of treachery and malice, of love and learning.įirst off, to everyone who gave this book 5 stars - may I humbly suggest that you need THERAPY. It is the season of the sun in Norway, the clear midnight light of summer. She wears the slave collar around her neck for all to see, but bears his distrust of her and her own pain deep within her. Zarabeth does eventually return with Magnus to his farmstead in Norway, but as his slave, not as his wife. But her stepfather, Olav the Vain, has no intention of setting a bride price on Zarabeth. She is both stunned and fascinated by his bluntness, but is soon won over by this man who makes her laugh, brings her desire, and ultimately makes her trust him with her future and that of her little sister, Lotti. Zarabeth, with hair as red as an Irish sunset, is chosen by Magnus Haraldsson, a Viking on a trading visit to York, to be his wife. First published in 1991, Season of the Sun is the glorious story of a Viking man whose love for one woman is nearly destroyed by her stubborn stepfather.
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