The Bloodletter's Daughter
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781612189291 (1612189296)
Publish date: April 1st 2013
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Drama,
Historical Romance,
Thriller,
17th Century
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...
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 I was half expecting it to be a little dry considering all the historical references but was pleasantly surprised that this wasn't the case at all.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...
I enjoyed this book quite a lot. Going in, I had no idea it was based on real people (I'm woefully lacking in my historical knowledge) but that added a layer of fascination for me, once I finished it. I "checked it out" from the Kindle lending library, and actually ended up buying it when I was abou...
I tried this and gave up. The writing did not appeal to me. Furthermore there is debate on how accurate the historical details are.
Lending Library.