Look what the Chihuahua dragged in.When Karly wanders outside her mountain cabin into the snowstorm to see why her dog is going nuts, she’s expecting an injured animal, not a muscular mammoth of a man who’s unconscious and about to freeze to death if she doesn’t drag him inside and try to tend his wounds. He’s wearing only a few pieces of fur-and-leather armor—cosplayer or insane mountain … armor—cosplayer or insane mountain man?—and his wild hair and beard haven’t seen a pair of scissors in a year or more. But when he wakes up and opens those amber-hazel eyes, Karly’s too caught off guard to protest his lack of appropriate clothing.
He doesn’t speak English, so Karly uses her skills as a foreign language teacher (and a lot of charades) to teach him. She needs to figure out who he is, why he’s dressed like a Skyrim character, what happened to him, and where he belongs so she can get him home.
That plan goes awry when his story starts coming out in broken English, and he claims to be a Visigoth from the year 483. Other than that little glitch, he doesn’t seem crazy, so Karly’s not sure whether to take him to the mental hospital or the homeless shelter. Or, just keep him around and drool over his hunky physique, his sweet smile, and his lion’s mane of hair. Plus, when her druggie ex-husband shows up high and hell-bent on manhandling Karly, it comes in handy to have a 6 foot 6 barbarian around to bounce him right on back to his Hummer with a bloody nose.
Valamir is condemned to execution, and the dungeon guards are on their way to his cell. So when his captor’s wife offers to use her Druidic powers to save his life in exchange for his undying pledge of love and loyalty, he sees no other way out. A quick blood-pact and hasty incantation later, he finds himself transported out of prison, trudging down a mountain in a blizzard and stumbling into the back yard of the most lovely guardian angel Wodin could have ever sent him. Karly is beautiful, smart, efficient, and caring—everything Valamir’s ever wanted in a woman. Only problem is, she suspects he’s either lying or delusional when he tells her where he’s from, a huge barrier to winning her trust and love. He has to find a way to prove himself to Karly while protecting her from her ex-husband and praying the Druidic priestess doesn’t make good on her promise to call him back to her side forever.
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I’ve read this book twice now. For some reason it just has everything I always want to read. Handsome hunk alpha who is also sweet and protective and respectful. The plot is excellent. The characters have great chemistry. All around this is a fantastic read.
Nice read. Very entertaining
A romantic time travel. Barbarian was too sweet or kind, but enjoyed the story.
love this book
Wonderful time travel in which the male adapts to future times and is a “gentleman”. Very enjoyable passionate read!
When Spanish language teacher Kayla finds an unconscious Valamir freezing to death in the snow behind her cabin in Colorado, she has no idea he has been sent there by druid Glismoda from the year 483. So begins a sweet, hot, stranger-in-a-strange-land love story. I thoroughly enjoyed following along as Kayla taught Val English and helped him navigate a world that is alien to him. The story pacing is unhurried, but never slow and the premise is creative and well-thought out. This is fun romantic escapism at it’s best.
I liked this book a lot. It kept my interest. It was a cute story. Not exactly realistic but who reads romance for realism right? Any way who can resist a time traveling warrior who’s also a true sweetie? Lots of fun to read.
Loved this book. I enjoy reading time travel books. Most time travel books take the person back in time. It was a joy to read one that brought the person to the future. Excellent writing! Highly recommend this book! Looking forward to reading the next one.
It was fun to read. It put a twist on time travel books. Instead of her traveling back in time he traveled to our time. It was a good love story. Some action with the x husband. Good read. I am waiting for the next book when his brother comes to our time.
It’s an okay story but my god the main male character was way too perfect for it to be even remotely believable.
Sure, a big muscly warrior man from hundreds of years ago is suddenly going to be completely a-okay with living with and falling in love with a vegetarian walking lululemon stereotype. Yeah, he’s gonna be totally fine eating nothing but light vegetarian meals and still maintain his big muscly muscles. What. Ever.
The male character was a little to liberated for being a Barbarian.
I am a big fan of time travel and twist ending was enthralling!
This book was unexpectedly good. It is a paranormal romance with unexpected twists.
Funny, Cute and romantic
So rare to find a new author that inspires enthusiasm! Try it…
I throughly enjoyed this book! Read!
I gave My Sweet Barbarian 5 stars because it kept me reading and smiling from beginning to end. The relative isolation caused by the snowstorm gives them an intimate setting to explore their unusual opportunity to get to know someone from another time. It all goes along so smoothly that you forget there is a dark shadow over them. I urge lovers of time travel fiction to try this one. This is not a cookie cutter book. I look forward to more by this author.
Sweet book, not particularly a page turner but ok as far as story went
Easy entertaining read! I would recommend this book to anyone that wanted a light and totally enjoyable book.
This book was terrible and I skimmed it, hoping it would get better. It never did. None of this felt ‘real’, even for or especially for time-travel romance. He’s a VISIGOTH. Yet our hero, Valamir, manages to adjust beautifully to modern America. He was so amazingly warm, empathetic, generous, loving, giving, massaging; I mean perfect in every way. Absolutely a paragon of manhood. A six foot six pajama boy. Six foot six! Valamir lived in an age when most adult men didn’t top out much over five foot eight, due to poor nutrition.
A VISIGOTH and our heroine got him onto a vegetarian diet which he happily accepted.
We spent pages and pages on language lessons (Valamir learned English within a few days), cooking lessons (but sadly no recipes), and learning to navigate 2015 Colorado. Days upon days upon days upon days in which nothing actually happened other than every day life when you try to turn a VISIGOTH into pajama boy.
I got the distinct impression that the author didn’t know anything about the actual dark ages, after the fall of Rome.
Yeek.