Review Tour + #Giveaway: Dragon of Denmark by Jennifer Ivy Walker @bohemienneivy @GoddessFish

DRAGON OF DENMARK

Jennifer Ivy Walker

GENRE: Viking Romance Paranormal Fantasy

BLURB:

Skårde the Scourge, bastard son of the Danish king Harald Bluetooth, is a fierce Viking warlord who earned the prestigious title Dragon of Denmark through victorious battles and lucrative Viking raids. When his royal father announces that Skårde will forge a Viking alliance through an arranged marriage to the daughter of Richard the Fearless, the Dragon of Denmark considers the voyage to Normandy an infuriating banishment.

Illegitimate daughter of Richard the Fearless, the Viking Duke of Normandy, Ylva is a Druid priestess and Celtic healer with the otherworldly gift of sight. She learns that she must leave her Breton village behind and travel to Normandy, where she will marry the Viking brute that she has foreseen in a terrifying vision.

When the Frankish king, determined to drive the Vikings from Normandy, attacks and seizes Richard’s clifftop fortress, the Dragon of Denmark must ally with Ljósálfar Light Elves, a Viking völva with powerful seiðr magic, and a vitki-- a shapeshifting sorcerer who can assume the form of a falcon--to reclaim the ducal palace.

Dragon of Denmark is a sizzling, scintillating blend of historical fiction, Norse mythology, paranormal fantasy, and steamy Viking romance!

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Excerpt:

Inside the hidden sea cave, Ylva dipped her hands into the ebullient pool at the bottom of the cascade, bringing the icy water to her lips and drinking deeply from the sacred spring of Mont Garrot. She washed her face and neck with the cleansing spray from the waterfall. Bowing her head in reverence upon the altar she had built, Ylva bid her blessed goddess Divona adieu and prepared to exit the holy shrine.

But as she attempted to rise, the deafening roar of the waterfall suddenly stilled as a stifling darkness descended, transfixing her to the altar where she knelt before the pool. In the limpid depths before her, a towering, heavily armed warrior appeared in the mirrored waters of the sacred spring.

Pulse pounding, limbs trembling, Ylva was mesmerized by the terrifying image of the massive Viking beast.

Long blond locks extended past his enormous shoulders, and a braided beard covered his oxlike neck. Thick furs draped down his broad muscled back. Silver torques with elaborate carvings encircled his mammoth arms, inked with terrifying images of dragons, wolves, and bears. In an intricate scabbard belted at his sinewy waist, a gleaming sword with a glittering emerald in its hilt was sheathed upon his left hip. Dark leggings clung to heavily muscled thighs, and leather boots and furs laced up his wide, sculpted calves.

At the sight of the rippled torso riddled with scars and covered with dark blond hair, Ylva’s breath caught in her throat.

Emblazoned across his mountainous chest, a jagged thunderbolt scorched the bare skin.

As she beheld the lightning streak which marked the monstrous brute, a sizzling energy surged up her veins. Frozen in fear, Ylva was immersed in the current which flowed from the sacred spring and seared her from within. Gazing into the hypnotic waves of the mirrored pool, she glimpsed a white castle perched high upon an oceanfront cliff.

And, in the distance, anchored in a sheltered cove, the red and white striped sails and carved dragon prows of an enormous fleet of Viking ships.

My Review:

The moment I began reading Dragon of Denmark I was instantly drawn deep into its world by all the Viking history. From the first page, I became immersed in the story as if I were a part of it. It was as if I could look around and see everything I was reading right before my eyes.

I like Viking stories way more than I ever thought I would. I fell in love with Viking stories and the history of it when I watched Vikings and The Last Kingdom. I love the battles with the swords. I love the lifestyle as it can be romantic, not that I would actually want to live that kind of life but it might be fun to visit for a day or so.

A Viking and A Celtic are forced into marriage by their fathers. Skårde the Scourge is a fierce Viking warlord. Ylva is a Druid priestess and Celtic healer with the otherworldly gift of sight.

Ylva lived with her mother after her father abandoned them when she was ten to marry for political reasons. After her mother died Ylva lived alone until the day she was forced from her home to become the bride of Skårde. 

I can’t wait to read more in the Valiant Vikings series. I recommend Dragon of Denmark to anyone who likes Viking stories! Grab a copy of Dragon of Denmark today.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Enthralled with legends of medieval knights and ladies, dark fairy tales, and fantasies about Druids, wizards and magic, Jennifer Ivy Walker always dreamed of becoming a writer. She fell in love with French in junior high school, continuing her study of the language throughout college, eventually becoming a high school teacher and college professor of French.

Her debut novel, The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven, won numerous awards, including the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for Fantasy, the Independent Author Network Book of the Year 2023 for Paranormal/Supernatural, and the American Fiction Awards Winner 2023 for Paranormal Romance. The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven trilogy won the Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers’ Choice 2023 First Place Award for Series in the Myth/Fantasy Romance category. Winter Solstice in the Crystal Castle, a spinoff of her trilogy, is the American Fiction Awards Winner 2024 for Best Historical Romance and the Raven Awards Winner 2024 for Fantasy Romance.

Dragon of Denmark, her newest novel, is a steamy Viking paranormal romance between a Celtic Breton priestess—the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Normandy, Richard the Fearless-- and the Viking brute known as the Dragon of Denmark, bastard son of the Danish King Harald Bluetooth.

Set in tenth century Normandy, Dragon of Denmark is book 1 of the Valiant Vikings series, an epic paranormal fantasy incorporating history, Celtic and Nordic myths and legends, and sizzling Viking romance.

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