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Despite the cartloads of silliness or maybe because of them, I quite enjoyed this historical romance series and the second installment of the adventures of Alix of Wanthwaite.The historical background is researched, the author explains in detail her sources, her licences and how she set her fiction ...
I picked this one expecting a solid historical romance fiction book set during the Third crusade with young adult flavor.Sure enough, the protagonist is an eleven-year-old girl, and the plot is linear, a coming-of-age-quest story with gender-bender elements but it is, by my standards, wholly adult. ...
One of my least favourite novels that had Richard the Lionheart in it. Trite, silly and full of cliches. Yawn. The Heroine (yes, it does need to capitalize, as she is yet another Mary-Sue), trapses about as a male minstrel, somehow managing to hide her sexuality and gender throughout. I hated it. Ju...
Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of the most interesting figures in history. First duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, then queen of France, then queen of England, she held a great deal of power.This book starts with her imprisonment by her second husband, Henry II of England, in Wales. She asks for...
I found this book at a garage sale and thought, "It's about King Richard, how could I go wrong?" Then I read many favorable reviews and felt that I had made a good find. I can only explain the difference between my own feelings and these encouraging reviews by saying that if these ladies liked the...
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