This is the first in the Vicky Bliss Series of 6 books. Vicky is a specialist in Medieval Europe and works in an American college teaching history. She is drawn into an adventure when her and her male colleague discover a trail to finding a missing religious icon. Both are determined and stubborn and bet each other that they can find the icon before the other one does.
The trail leads to a castle in the German Town of Rothenburg and they come up across others who are also seeking the icon, and one of them is willing to kill Vicky, her colleague and anyone else who gets in their way.
Vicky is a strong minded women who tends to go off on her own to prove that she is capable and ends up needing rescuing, not because she's a women but because she so often does not understand or recognise the danger a person or group bring into the setting. She is self-deprecating especially about the way she looks, and the way it distracts people especially men from her intelligence.
Vicky and her rescuer are well developed and their interactions can be felt as you read them. The locations are written with enough detail so you can imagine them but with enough left out to fuel your imagination or memories.
Vicky and her rescuer are well developed and their interactions can be felt as you read them. The locations are written with enough detail so you can imagine them but with enough left out to fuel your imagination or memories.
I found myself much to my surprise liking Vicky and her rescuer who she becomes involved with in later books. Although I did find myself often silently yelling at her as the danger approached as she was blissful unaware.
If you like light hearted, tongue in cheek stories then this is for you.
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