The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781480516298 (1480516295)
Publish date: September 3rd 2013
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
Edition language: English
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...
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 ...
"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....
Review also found at my http://kindlebooklove.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-drowning-guard-linda-lafferty.html 4.5 Omg I need a nap StarsARC provided by Netgalley for review This is one of those books that you take your time with. I know I took too long but I had personal things that needed to get h...
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