This book was slow to start but the second half of the book the pace was better and the last couple of chapters were great. I'm embarrassed to say that I totally missed the King in love with 'Genevieve' who is in love with his best friend and best soldier. Goodness how'd I miss that in the first ...
This is one of my favorite trilogies of all time. I finally got around to rereading The Boleyn King so I could read the last two books. SO good!! All I can think of while reading these books is how I want to be with the Holy Quartet, trying to stay careful amidst court intrigue, wearing gowns dri...
A solid end to this alternate-history trilogy, The Boleyn Reckoning was both jam-packed with action and filled with passages in which the characters sat around waiting for stuff to happen. The modulation of pace did serve to increase the tension, particularly toward the end of the novel, but a fe...
Last year I was in France with Elizabeth and Dominic, while William was in Wales on royal progress … it was the first birthday since we were eight that William and I have not spent together. I am not sure that today will restore equilibrium and nostalgia. I am unnerved by William’s hints at my gi...
The first time, she’d been a child—a nine-year-old girl aware mostly that the boy whose birthday she shared had suddenly become the most powerful person in England. The second time, she had been a young woman, marked by fear and grief, watching her dearest friend steadily take her oath as the fir...
Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events, or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coinciden...
Desire danced along her skin as she remembered the softness of his lips mixed with the roughness of his not-quite-shaven cheeks and chin. His hands were every bit as strong and steady as she’d guessed, and her own had gone from the solidity of his shoulders to where his hair curled slightly again...
Esmé Stewart, Duke of Lennox and favourite of the young King James, was an impressive figure from the moment of his arrival at Hampton Court. Forty years old, born and raised in France, Stewart was at the height of his power and attraction. From the first moment, he cast even the royal Anjou into...
He wasn’t sure where his brothers and father were being held, for his guards were under orders to give nothing away. Not even his charm had any effect on their reticence. When Dominic walked into his cell, Robert raised one very dramatic eyebrow. “Either I am about to be pardoned or about to be d...