The good folks at Kirkus gave The Valkyrie a pretty darned kind review, I'm happy to say. You can read the full text at https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/deborah-l-davitt/valkyrie-davitt/; they quite deliberately don't want me to do more than copy a small percentage of their text. I posted that small section to the Reviews page of this website. Most Kirkus reviews don't go beyond 500 words. So it's difficult to compare their review to one written by the Midwest Book