I really wanted to say I loved this book with all my heart, but it didn't happen. 
 Ok, so ... it wasn't soul scorching love, it wasn't "we are gonna be together until I die, obviously while reading you ", but it was a hot affair... Yeah... :D ... I had an affair with this book and I want everybody to know it. 
 As the first book in this new series, I must say after reading it, is really promising. But then, I also read most of Shelly Laurenston books, and even if I don't usually re-read them, I like them. 
 I love the humor. 
 Man... but I love this woman's humor. 
 In "The Unleashing" we get to met Kera who's thrown in a supernatural world by a goddess, right after she is killed behind the coffee shop where she works. She is also given a second chance to live her life, only that this time, she will do it partially in the service of the goddess who saved her. But everything is not happening randomly. Kera didn't just had the good fortune of having a goddess passing by at the right moment and save her from staying dead. She only had the good fortune of having a stalker... one that had the means of doing something for a woman he did not want to stop stalking. 
 Enter Vig. 
 Vig, who is in a different clan from the one that an adopted Kera in her second life. Vig who's a hot Viking everybody's afraid off. Vig who has a reputation for maiming of killing people that bugs him. Vig who has a crush on Kera but does not know how to act, or what to do with it. 
 And maybe it would be a boring story... predictable... if it wasn't for the fact that Kera is a badass, ex-marine, with a strong desire to organize people. Equally badass people who don't want to be organized. 
 Throw in the story a dog who's more than you expect, a bunch of models and actresses, killers after the sun goes down, living in a something like a sorority house, and you'll get a story to keep you hooked to the end. Then it'll still keep you hooked until the next book comes out, 'cause damn... I can't wait to read the next one. 
 I'm new at this review business, it will be a while until I would manage to write an OK review, but I must point out that reading this book reminded me a lot about Immortal After Dark, and about the witches coven or the house of Valkyries, only that we get more of Norse mythology in this one. 
 The romance part was not swoon-worthy to me. It was ok, it was fun especially since we have a huge Viking with stalking tenancies he will not admit to, and a strong heroine who's not afraid to let her guard down sometimes. I just wanted something more and I have no idea what. 
 So in the end I'm just gonna say this book is worth reading and tracking down the next ones in the series because it was that good. I didn't have an instant connection, I didn't pull one nighter to finish it, but it was an almost. 
 4 stars for me with a Want to Read to the second in the Call of Crows, because it was that good.