" Another one that I didn't really care for, but again, hard to know if it's the time period (this one is set in 1066), as I am not a fan of historical romance set in the Middle Ages. It's just too hard to get away from the "women as chattel" angle of the times to really get into a story based on that time, unless the characters are completely anachronistic (which these are not). It also felt like a retread of her first book, Gentle Warrior, in many scenes. The two leads just seemed really similar to the two leads in the previous book. Some authors pull that kind of thing off well (McNaught is an example - her male leads sometimes seem interchangeable, but she writes the stories so well, I just don't care!), but this being still an early work by Garwood, the plot isn't strong enough to carry that flaw, for me at least. "
— Melowin, 1/20/2014