Song at Dawn
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781447796954
Publish date: October 12th 2011
Publisher: LULU
Pages no: 364
Edition language: English
Estela de Matin has secrets and that made her an engaging character right from the beginning. Alienor is intrigued too and takes her into her household out of curiosity. The women build a kind of trust even as politics and scheming threaten Queen Alienor and those around her. The Victomtess of Narbo...
Let me say up front that this is a good story. It did take me a few chapters to really get into it (apparently I’m not as into historic fantasy as I thought and often found myself skimming through paragraphs on alliances and lineages), but once I did I was swept along with the characters and the sto...
Overall rating: 4.5/5 stars. "Song at Dawn" is the story of Estela de Matin, a would-be troubairitz (female troubadour) in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine.Estela is quite literally found in a ditch, muddy and injured, with only her mandora (also called an oud) and a large white dog who will not l...