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Darth Pedant
Darth Pedant rated it 8 years ago
Lafferty makes fast and loose with history in her fictional account of the life of Markéta Pichlerová. She paints her as an intelligent, ambitious, rebellious, arrogant, naïve teenager, a combination of attributes which prompts decisions that root her firmly in too-stupid-to-live territory. The hist...
Read With ME (207)
Read With ME (207) rated it 10 years ago
Great bookI enjoyed this book very much and would definitely recommend it to anyone. I was half expecting it to be a little dry considering all the historical references but was pleasantly surprised that this wasn't the case at all. I was also very interested to find out it was loosely based on actu...
100 Pages A Day...Stephanie's Book Reviews
This book takes place in the turbulent Ottoman Empire in the 1820's. Esma Sultan, beloved sister of the Sultan Mahmud II sits comfortably in her own palace with her own harem of women that she has saved from the Constantinople slave trade. However, any of her lovers are cursed to be drowned in the...
More of the Most Happy Reader
More of the Most Happy Reader rated it 11 years ago
The Most Happy Reader Reviews Mary Bennet by Kate Allen Mary Bennet is a familiar, if somewhat neglected character, in Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. Mary, the middle child of the five Bennet sisters, lacks the vivacity and beauty of Elizabeth and Jane and lacks the boy crazy flirtatiou...
More of the Most Happy Reader
More of the Most Happy Reader rated it 11 years ago
Mary Bennet is a familiar, if somewhat neglected character, in Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. Mary, the middle child of the five Bennet sisters, lacks the vivacity and beauty of Elizabeth and Jane and lacks the boy crazy flirtatiousness of Kitty and Lydia. Not surprisingly Mary fades in...
TwistedAlyce
TwistedAlyce rated it 11 years ago
This book wasn't what I expected, I was expecting some horror tale about the Countess in the modern day, instead it was like a history lesson with the best bits missing and some pointless attempt to have a modern twist added.The flash backs to the 1600's worked well and gave a real feel of what happ...
Flicker Reads
Flicker Reads rated it 11 years ago
An ambitious book that moves back and forth between present day plot and 17th century.
Rabbit Reads
Rabbit Reads rated it 11 years ago
This book was pretty awesome and horrific. I really enjoyed reading this.The only thing I didn't like was the teenaged "goth". It was cringe-worthy and hella awkward to read.
The Moment Stealer
The Moment Stealer rated it 11 years ago
Please don’t be misled by the terrible cover. It is the only bad thing about The Drowning Guard. This is actually a terrific book marred only by that atrocity on its face, rather like how I am a terrific person, marred only by the atrocity that is my face. At first I was pretty lukewarm about the ...
Litchick's Hit List
Litchick's Hit List rated it 11 years ago
"Not all is as simple as Good and Evil." That line speaks volumes about this story and the characters within it. This book is enthralling, profound, enraging, uplifting, beautiful, hideous, elevated, common…I could go on and on. Many of these words contradict each other but that’s kind of the point....
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