Warrior's Song

Medieval Song, Book 1

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Chandra de Avenell might look like a golden princess, but she fights like a warrior, dreams a warrior’s dreams, and wears a warrior’s pride like a suit of armor. She wants to be strong, independent, and free. She has no use at all for a husband. Enter the man her father has selected for her. Jerval de Vernon takes one look at Chandra, and he wants her. After he saves her from a very bad situation, he sets himself to wooing her—not an easy task.

How does a man convince a woman he coerces into marriage to become a wife? To give him her loyalty and trust? Love is something he would like her to consider as well. But what if the wife has no intention of cooperating? Does he break her or finally give up to her?

©2001 Catherine Coulter (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

NOPE

I can move beyond much misogyny in a historical book with the expectation that it is overcome in the end. Regardless of time period, there is no salvaging a romance if the opening scene involves the man raping the woman’s friend in front of her. Why bother continuing.
#wronggenre

Skip This Book & Move On To The Next In The Series

I started this book because I read one further in the series & really liked it so I decided to start the series from the beginning. If I'd started w/ this book I'd have never read another! The heroine was a prideful, immature, selfish girl; & the hero went from admiring her "warrior" skills to trying to smother them out of her! That said at least he was overall likable. I'll never understand why so called "strong" women have to be stubborn & prideful to the point of stupidity! Added to that is that the overall story line was awful! The emphasis the author places on the worthlessness of women in the period almost makes one wonder if she believes that herself! The complete focus of the story is the strife between the characters and the various settings and troubles they must overcome are pointless shadows there only to drag the story out. As I said, if you want to read this series skip this book and start with different one.

Warrior's Song

Originally published as Chandra this book is the first of a four boo set. I like the fact that a woman can be a hero.

Disappointed with the narrator!

The story was interesting but very difficult to follow due to the narrator. The narrator ran the sentences, and different characters within the story, together.

Great narrator

The narrator helps me choose the book. Anne Flosnik is an excellent narrator. I was not disappointed with her performance with this book at all. The author was trying to portray an independent woman who could hold her own as a fighter. Unfortunately she did not give this heroin a brain. I have a problem with stupid acting, self serving female characters in books who put many people in jeopardy because of their childish acts. If you want to portray an independent woman, then also give her a brain. Plus the second half of the book made it feel disconnected from the first half. I only gave 3 stars.

History and romance

If you could sum up Warrior's Song in three words, what would they be?

History and romance in one story.

What other book might you compare Warrior's Song to and why?

Any of Catherine's other historical romance novels and I plan to read the next one in the series.

Don't Read

Left me feeling horrible inside. Made the rapist a hero!

Sweet suitor becomes dominating husband (pretty much like the rapist she was rescued from) but apparently that is great.

She ends up losing her identity and the things that made her unique:(

And that's supposed to be a happy ending????

So depressing and made me feel sick to my stomach

Apparently some of her other books are better skip this one!!!!!

Rape warning

Could not even finish it. Starts out with main male character raping a girl. Unforgivable in a main character.

great

this was a great story. it was well written and the narrator did a very good job.

Not going to finish.

I got a 30 minutes in and lost interest. The first in a series is not always the best place to start.