GREAT book review!! Thorough and compelling. The opening is as riveting as a novel.
Who knew: Iceland's badass Vikings - notorious raiders - got raided! Barbary ships land on the coast and capture humans, men women, children--even infants, and carry them back to Africa for sale. The trade in humans conducted by Barbary raiders lasted for centuries.

Thank you so much for an inspiring review. I had given up book reviewing. "Nobody reads my reviews anyway, except the authors themselves," it seemed. I know, I know, gotta tell myself a better narrative. I posted a few reviews (unpaid) at Newsblaze. Here at Hive, we at least get upvotes and feedback. Zero feedback from any Newsblaze review, so I just stopped...
But you have inpsired me!
And what a great topic!