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Athene....reads Rough and Ready (Viking Time Travel)

Ok, this looks like a fun one, thanks Athene!

Maybe we can have the "Girl and triceratops in hot steamy action" or "Gay were-cuttlefish (as in people that turn into cuttlefish) romance" ones next? :p

Anyway, there's something here that makes me scratch my head...

Athene said:
"He stole my family lands and tortured my sister Madrene. Think Hitler on a longship."
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Athene said:
When I was sixteen years old, in the year 1000 AD, my father, myself, and eight of my brothers and sisters boarded a longship. We left behind at Norstead, my family's estates, my brother Ragnor and my sister Madrene, both of whom you've met. While in Iceland, or Greenland, or wherever the hell we ended up, a strange storm overtook us, and we saw a vision where this elderly woman was praying.
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Ok, he stumbled into this time-storm, ended up in California, and found out that viking Hitler stole his land and tortured his sister while he was away, so he wants to go back and save her, fair enough, except...

Athene said:
When we woke up, we were still in our longship, but we had landed in modern-day California. Ragnor and Madrene came here later, at different times
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His sister time-traveled later and ended up on California too (and his brother also). How does this work? Did she ran into a convenient time-storm? They're a family of time-travelers? If I'm reading this right, all three traveled separately, at different times, and still arrived at more or less the same place so that they could reunite with each other, that sounds too convenient to be a coincidence.

And this means that he wants to go back to Norway before his sister left? This could be heading into time-travel paradox territory, if he goes and kills viking Hitler then his sister won't be raped and still has her lands, so she doesn't leave Norway, so she doesn't meet him in California, so he won't hear about what viking Hitler did and travel back to save her.

It also makes the "Go to the farm site and hope" plan seem strange, he doesn't want to just time travel back to viking Norway, he wants to hit a specific window of opportunity before viking Hitler does his villany, that seems like a heck of a coincidence to wish for, bu then again the whole family managed to land in California so maybe he's just trusting their strange time-travelers luck.
 
While it's not worse than A Desert Called Hope, it was harder to read the first snipp due to how disjointed it was, not counting the shattered SoD over their actions.

Why do you keep doing this Athene, why?
 
My current status is this:



Thanks to McDonalds. So I will update when I can D:
 
Deadly Snark said:
So let me get this straight, this was actually published? How?
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Trashy romances aside, there will always be Vanity Publishing. First, some backstory:
PublishAmerica described itself as a "traditional publisher" and claimed to accept only high-quality manuscripts for publication. Its website further stated that the company received over 70 manuscripts a day and rejected most of them.

At one point, PublishAmerica posted articles on their AuthorsMarket website stating that, among other things:
Science-fiction and fantasy writers have it easier. It's unfair, but such is life. As a rule of thumb, the quality bar for sci-fi and fantasy is a lot lower than for all other fiction. Therefore, beware of published authors who are self-crowned writing experts. When they tell you what to do and not to do in getting your book published, always first ask them what genre they write. If it's sci-fi or fantasy, run. They have no clue about what it is to write real-life stories, and how to find them a home. Unless you are a sci-fi or fantasy author yourself.
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But, alas, the SciFi and Fantasy genres have also attracted some of the lesser gods, writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters. Obviously, and fortunately, there are not too many of them, but the ones who are indeed not ashamed to be seen as literary parasites and plagiarists, are usually the loudest, just like the proverbial wheel that needs the most grease.
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Then some storytelling:
The distinctive flaws of Atlanta Nights include nonidentical chapters written by two different authors from the same segment of outline (13 and 15), a missing chapter (21), two chapters that are word-for-word identical to each other (4 and 17), two different chapters with the same chapter number (12 and 12), and a chapter "written" by a computer program that generated random text based on patterns found in the previous chapters (34). Characters change gender and race; they die and reappear without explanation. Spelling and grammar are nonstandard and the formatting is inconsistent. The initials of characters who were named in the book spelled out the phrase "PublishAmerica is a vanity press."[7]​

Under Macdonald's direction, the finale revealed that all the previous events of the plot had been a dream, although the book continues for several more chapters.
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And the result?:
The completed manuscript was offered to PublishAmerica by an unrevealed person not usually associated with fiction. The manuscript was accepted for publication on 7 December 2004.[2]​

The hoaxers reviewed the contract with legal counsel, and made the decision not to carry the hoax through to actually publishing the book.

On 23 January 2005, the hoax was publicly revealed by the authors. On 24 January 2005, PublishAmerica retracted its acceptance, stating that after "further review" the novel failed to meet their standards.[8]​
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Now get back to reading time traveling viking seals:

Man I really ought to play Donkey Kong Country one of these days. Granted, I think this is a sequel. Speaking of...

Axiomatic said:
Actually, is this a sequel to something? Is there a first book about the adventured of a teenage viking in California?

Because it seems like this story is just glossing over a lot of...story.
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Athene said:
They don'tactually have any connection with each other which is standard for a romance novel series.
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I noticed. Putting Viking Seal in google gave this as its first result:

So this is 8th in the "series", but has nothing to do with the others, except recycling the characters.
 
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Oh god this reminds me of that Bay Watch Nights episode where they unfreeze vikings.

David Hasselhoff yells VAAAALLLLHHALLLLAAAA and sets a barge on fire with a flaming arrow. Greatest thing ever shown on television.
 
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