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A review by gemmadee
Norse Jewel by Gina Conkle
4.0
I follow Conkle on Twitter, and know how much research she does. I loved reading the book and noticing where she she used that research and where she made changes for the sake of the story. I'm a sucker for all things Viking and this is a good Viking story. Also, the chapter where [not really a spoiler, of course it's inevitable] the heroine returns home and realizes how provincial her early dreams were was as satisfying a fantasy as the romance itself.
How to relate dialogue in modern English that reflects the combination of old Norse and medieval French the characters would have spoken is tricky. Conkle writes a lot of Regency, and I felt like that colored her approach to the dialogue in a way that sometimes pulled me out of the story. I'm too new to the genre to know how her approach compares to others' but I caught myself asking, "Wait, is he an eleventh century Norse jarl or a Regency Irish peasant?"
How to relate dialogue in modern English that reflects the combination of old Norse and medieval French the characters would have spoken is tricky. Conkle writes a lot of Regency, and I felt like that colored her approach to the dialogue in a way that sometimes pulled me out of the story. I'm too new to the genre to know how her approach compares to others' but I caught myself asking, "Wait, is he an eleventh century Norse jarl or a Regency Irish peasant?"