The Queen's Pawn
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101186442 (1101186445)
Publish date: April 6th 2010
Publisher: New American Library
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Medieval,
Historical Romance,
France,
European History
Historical Fiction is probably my favorite genre. In addition, I love to read anything that has to do with royalty, fiction or non fiction. So a book with Eleanor of Acquitane, Henry II, Richard Lionheart, and Alais of France was right up me alley. Although Christy English was a new author to me,...
I must say I agree with some of the reviews of previous members in regards to this book. Although, I liked the book and the story kept me interested, this book was written in a more modern language than what I would have thought for the time and that the author did in her follow up book, To Be Queen...
Although I had read a number of great reviews, I had put off reading this book simply because I have never been really enamored of the middle ages. This era in history was linked in my mind to a time of horrible personal hygiene, plague, ignorance and superstition, and women locked in towers while t...
Plot:The blurb does say it. Princess Alais is sent to marry prince Richard, but instead when she grows up she becomes King Henry's mistress.My thoughts:My second book about a mistress of King Henry, in a month, well he did get around.This book was made into Eleanor parts and Alais parts. So it chang...
3.5/5 starsAlais was sent to England, where she was to be married to his father’s first wife’s son Richard. She is taken under Eleanor’s wings and they form very close friendship. When she meets Richard she falls in love instantly. But when she meets the king, Henry II, she just can’t stop thinking...
14 years ago
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