A Warrior's Fate (Wolves of Morai)

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I don’t want to write about the plot, because I feel like I couldn’t do the storyline justice and I’d make it sound lame. On the night she’s to enter the Hunt, a perilous trial to earn her title of warrior, Isla meets her fated mate. Handsome, arrogant, and frustratingly captivating, Kai is everything she could want, but nowhere near what she needs right now. Because he is the king of the enigmatic Deimos…which makes Isla their rightful queen. What did you think of "Warrior's Fate"? Will you miss Torstein? Is Floki getting on your nerves? Does Harbard posses special powers? How do you feel about Lagertha and King Ecbert? Your turn friends, please hit the comments and share your thoughts with me. The goddess, Fate, must enjoy playing with the mortals. For why else would she choose the most important night of Isla's life to place her soulmate on her path?

I really love how A Warrior's Fate twisted some tropes and added some new surprises. I also like how Isla and Kai decide to ignore their bond, which is something I haven't seen before. These two just mutually decide that they have too much going on to worry with accepting or rejecting a fated mate bond, which is honestly a whole mood. And the slow-burn between these two is fantastic! The world Melissa built in my mind was etherial, the writing was cohesive and didn’t distract from the story. The elements of mystery, the suspense and romance made for a well balanced plot. I really enjoyed how she left us Easter eggs throughout, piecing them together added to the mystery. She wrote unique, three-dimensional characters with depth, personality, and clear motivations. The side characters were the perfect dash of humour and lightness - Seb & Jonah I am looking at you. Overall the plot was all consuming, the characters and their dynamics well rounded and the romance was scorchingly swoon worthy. While Lagertha seems to have learned a few phrases in Ecbert’s Old English, the show continues to play loose with translation rules.

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Ragnar’s response to Bjorn upon learning that Porunn came raiding while pregnant is worth examining further, but his fury at his son strikes deep at the contradictory heart of the king. There’s a level of paternalism there, sure, but it also speaks both to Ragnar’s lesson on power and sacrifice to Bjorn in the season’s first scene, and his speech to Floki tonight: The book has swept me away to a powerful world of political intrigue and intense romance, the story is filled with tension, adventure, hot and swoon worthy scenes! The main character is a female inspirational heroine Isla that is fated to a rival King, their deal to not touch each other is so intriguing so they don't have to accept their mate bond. From the mysterious deaths to the entertaining battles this book keeps you on the edge of your seat and has you on a rollercoaster of emotions! Simplistic military post-apocalyptic series continues with solid military lingo and action that would be better on screen as a visual spectacle, instead of book format. The only thing that I didn't love was the struggle to get a good idea of what time period the setting was based on. I think it's more modern? There's mention cars and some other modern inventions, but for the longest time I was picturing the common vaguely medieval fantasy setting.

Isla and Kai meet the night before the Hunt a trial that if successful would earn her a warrior title. So finding her fated mate couldn't have come at a worse time. Much to her surprise Kai agrees to ignore the bond and together they attempt to defy fate…. I loved the love story between Kai and Isla and the world building was easy to understand. When it comes to the mystery aspect of this book and the events that contribute to the underlying mystery, I was often confused about what was going on and felt like the plot was murky and not developed well. Once I got to the end of the book, things became clearer but I still feel like that aspect of the book wasn’t as well developed as the rest of the story. I don’t normally read mysteries so that could be why it didn’t hit for me. The goddess, Fate, must enjoy playing with the mortals. For why else would she choose the most important night of Isla’s life to place her soulmate on her path? When Bjorn tends to the grievously wounded Porunn (her face horrifyingly beaten by an English soldier), it’s uncle Rollo who reaches out to the boy, finding a way through Bjorn’s self-involved grieving, drawing on his own relationship with the gods (and perhaps his own experience with massive facial injuries). Rollo’s journey has been an inconsistent one, but his current characterization has taken on an appealing serenity—or as close to serenity as the axe-happy Rollo gets. Here, his advice to his nephew is less about worship, or pragmatism, and more emblematic of Rollo’s resigned understanding of his place in the Norseman’s universe: Having monsters and the dog as POV characters works sometimes to enhance the complexity of a character. On the other hand I find it increasingly frustrating when the same event is told several times over from different POVs. Is that strictly necessary? We already got the whole event once, there is no need to waste time with another retelling. It doesn't add to the experience. The characters are not exactly deep thinkers and the events being described are just simplistic action sequences.

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This book was an amazing work of fantasy and I enjoyed it immensely. I always find myself at a loss for words when I finish a truly impressive book, I just don’t have the words to do it justice.

high fantasy (one of the only shifter fantasy romance books I’ve ever read with a truly high fantasy setting and sensibility!) With the initial storyline begging for other talented storytellers to tighten their belts and weigh in on their interpretation of the Variant problem and the changed character of the survivors. This branch of the masterwork brings survivors from all walks of life and range of talents. While old soldiers live on in the lives and training of those that follow, the farmer, the cook and the handyman will be the ones to craft new lives from the ruins of the old. King Ecbert visits the developing Viking settlement as the first harvest is sown and rebuffs criticism from his leading nobles. In Mercia, the Wessex/Viking forces charge at the battle at the Hill of the Ash. In Kattegat, Harbard arrives at the Great Hall and his mysterious aura fascinates Aslaug and Helga but Siggy remains suspicious. There are strange and tragic happenings in Kattegat, and Siggy suspects Harbard is the cause.The overall storyline of the show is a cleverly condensed dramatisation of events that actually took place in the period between circa 800 and 880 and led to the birth of the first English kingdom. The fictional Ragnar Lodbrog (Lothbrook) character as well as Ladgerda (Lagertha), Aslaug (aka. Kraka) are described by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus who lived in the 1200s. Most likely, Saxo deliberately used the actual viking king Godfred as his inspiration. A Warrior's Fate is the Adult Paranormal Fantasy Romance and its first installment in the The Alpha and The Warrior series. The only reason it wasn’t 5 stars for me is how the mate bond shaped Isla and Kai through the story. I think it was a lot of build up for nothing in the first part and I remember thinking, that could have been cut completely and it wouldn’t hurt. But that’s just me. Isla is the FMC who was strong, sassy, fierce and protective of those she loved. Kai is the MMC who was brooding, powerful, protective and loving. Isla and Kai met and their mating bond snapped but both decided it's better for everyone to separate their ways. But little did they know? Fate put them on a same path again and it's complicates their decision without touching each other. Only tension is high. Besides that, Isla and Kai faces the mystery that looms over Deimos history and suspicious those they trusted but who to trust in the end? The war is threatening between two powerful territories and Isla is caught between.