{"id":15953,"date":"2020-03-01T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2021-10-30T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:12:34","slug":"review-of-first-to-burn-immortal-vikings-1-by-anna-richland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/review-of-first-to-burn-immortal-vikings-1-by-anna-richland\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of First to Burn (Immortal Vikings #1), by Anna Richland"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I purchased a secondhand, paperback copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/First-Burn-Immortal-Vikings-Richland\/dp\/0373002548\/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1583085977&amp;sr=8-3\">First to Burn<\/a> (by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annarichland.com\/\">Anna Richland<\/a>) in a physical store.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"475\" class=\"wp-image-15954\" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/First-to-Burn.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of First to Burn\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/First-to-Burn.jpg 299w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/First-to-Burn-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Description from Goodreads:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>A soldier with secrets<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Immortal Viking Wulf Wardsen once battled alongside Beowulf, and now serves in Afghanistan. He&#8217;s trusted the mortal men on his elite special operations team to protect his secret, until an explosion lands Wulf in a place more dangerous to him than a battlefield: a medevac helicopter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>A doctor with questions<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Army captain Theresa Chiesa follows the rules and expects the same from others, even special forces hotshots like Sergeant Wardsen. She&#8217;s determined to discover the secret behind his supernaturally fast healing, and she won&#8217;t allow his sexy smile to distract her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>An enemy with nothing to lose<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Even as Theresa&#8217;s investigation threatens to expose him, Wulf is stirred by her passion. Dreaming of love and a normal life, he wants nothing more than to build a future with her. But the lost Viking relic needed to reverse his immortality is being hunted by another\u2014an ancient enemy who won&#8217;t hesitate to hurt Theresa to strike back at Wulf.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Pretty good for what it is. But what it is is a bit of fluff. I enjoyed the banter between the main characters and the humor of the Special Forces men. I liked that the heroine was a soldier herself and came back strong after a fairly traumatic injury. I liked that the hero wasn&#8217;t an alpha A-hole and was really responsive to any &#8216;no&#8217; she uttered, without any guilting or attempted manipulation. <br \/><br \/>I did think the narrative had too much going on, the whole immortality schtick wasn&#8217;t well enough developed to actually be needed, and the villain was defeated too easily. Also, the little bit of light, kinky play as therapy irritated me. Despite all that, I&#8217;d read more of the series and certainly more by this author.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a secondhand, paperback copy of First to Burn (by Anna Richland) in a physical store. Description from Goodreads: A soldier with secrets Immortal Viking Wulf Wardsen once battled alongside Beowulf, and now serves in Afghanistan. He&#8217;s trusted the mortal men on his elite special operations team to protect his secret, until an explosion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[825,231,2054,267,359,106,142,413],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booksbook-review","tag-anna-richland","tag-book-review","tag-carina-press","tag-paranormal","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-pnr","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}