Review of The Color of Vengeance by Kim Iverson Headlee

BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – The Color of Vengeance
SERIES – The Dragon's Dove Chronicles (standalone excerpt from Book 2, Morning's Journey)
AUTHOR – Kim Iverson Headlee
GENRE – Early Medieval Historical Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE – August 2013
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 5K words
PUBLISHER – Lucky Bat Books
COVER ARTIST – Cherry Tigris

BOOK SYNOPSIS

Vengeance was the only burial gift he could bestow.

When Angli cattle thieves slaughter his wife and son, Dwras son of Gwyn vows revenge upon their murderers. But how can a mere farmer prevail against ruthless, trained warriors? For the answer Dwras must look not to his sword, but within his heart.

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EXCERPT

Dwras jabbed the offending warrior on the shoulder. With a grunt, the man swung his head around to fix narrow eyes upon him.

“What d’ye want?” 

“My seat. I want it back.” Dwras lowered his eyebrows. “Now!”

“You—what?” The Lothian warrior’s laughter nearly made him choke. A grinning companion slapped his back. 

“Oho, Farmer Dwras thinks he’s one of us, lads,” chortled another warrior, making a shooing motion. “Be off with you! Back to your pigs, farmer boy.” 

They burst into cackles, hoots, and hog calls. Dwras felt his cheeks flush. 

The warrior in Dwras’s seat found himself buried under sops and ale.

“My mistake, sir.” He grinned devilishly. “I thought this was the sty.”

MY REVIEW:

KIM IVERSON HEADLEE IS A NEW AUTHOR FOR ME SO I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN I STARTED READING THE COLOR OF VENGEANCE.  TO MY SURPRISE, I WAS QUICKLY DRAWN IN THE STORY OF DWRAS.  THE COLOR OF VENGEANCE WAS A FAST READ FOR ME AND I ENJOYED IT.  I AM A BIG FAN OF KING ARTHUR AND CAMELOT AND WOULD LOVE TO READ MORE BOOKS DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.  I PARTICULARLY LOVE THAT TIME PERIOD BECAUSE I THINK IT SO ROMANTIC WITH YOUR KNIGHTS FIGHTING AND DAMSELS IN DISTRESS.

DWRAS' WIFE AND CHILD ARE MURDERED AND HE SEEKS VENGEANCE.  BUT WHAT CAN A MERE FARMER DO?  HE FINDS THE ANSWERS IN HIS HEART AND LEARNS FORGIVENESS.  A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES KNIGHTS IN SHINING ARMOUR.  4 STARS

AUTHOR BIO

Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted wildlife. People and creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250-year-old house ruins—the latter having been occupied as recently as the mid-twentieth century—seem to be sticking around for a while yet.

Kim is a Seattle native and a direct descendent of twentieth-century Russian nobility. Her grandmother was a childhood friend of the doomed Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the romantic yet tragic story of how Lydia escaped Communist Russia with the aid of her American husband will most certainly one day fuel one of Kim’s novels. Another novel in the queue will involve her husband’s ancestor, the seventh-century proto-Viking king of the Swedish colony in Russia.

For the time being, however, Kim has plenty of work to do in creating her projected 8-book Arthurian series, The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles, and other novels under her imprint, Pendragon Cove Press. She has been a published novelist since 1999, beginning with the original editions of Dawnflight (Sonnet Books, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671020412) and Liberty (writing as Kimberly Iverson, HQN Books, Harlequin, ISBN 0373771347).

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