The story is really about her finding a home and a family, and I love stories like that. I also thought Julia Livia was a well-drawn character. Louise Allen does a great job of rounding out his character so that he seems like a normal guy and a romance hero at the same time. He's really intelligent and calm, and actually a nice guy. He's definitely an alpha male, which one would expect from this sort of romance, but's he's not a HULK SMASH sort of alpha male. I loved the two main characters and found Wulfric particularly interesting. For two, I love unusual settings, and the Fall of Rome is a very unusual setting for a romance!įor the most part, Virgin Slave, Barbarian King was good-ish. I think they're hilarious and a lot of the modern ones have really interesting twists on relationship power dynamics. For one, I am a total sucker for romances where a woman is taken captive. With Virgin Slave, Barbarian King however, I didn't require much convincing. I first heard about this book from Penny Watson at Penny Romances, who has a talent for convincing me to read really odd books. If the tent is a-rockin, don't come a-knockin. Unfortunately, he decides she'd make a good slave and carts her off to his encampment. Fortunately, she's save by the Goth (Visigoth? Barbarian? Are they the same?) leader Wulfric. Rome is being sacked by barbarians, and patrician daughter Julia Livia is trying to escape her burning house when she's attacked by rioting citizens.
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