3.75/4. The epilogue made me go "hmm." As a historian-in-training, I'm fascinated with how things grow and develop and in the author's summing of Eleonore, she mentioned how her younger son, Edmund became the first Earl of Lancaster and chose the red rose as his symbol, which was mentioned in pas...
I dreaded picking it up but I did manage to finish it. I thought that I might get to a point where I will actually feel differently but that moment never came. The characters are flat and some storylines seem to be left unfinished. Aisha doesn't seem real as a woman with her desire to have a very...
LeseeindruckIch war sehr gefesselt von diesem Buch und auch emotional berührt. Aisha hat eine wundervolle Entwicklung durchlebt - Eifersucht war ein starkes Thema in diesem Buch und sie zu verlieren ist schwer, genauso wie gütig zu sein.Die ganzen Personen war sehr liebevoll gestaltet. Eine Spezi...
Sunlight streams through the high windows, illuminating the long aisle of the Notre Dame Cathedral. At the end waits Father Geoffrey of Beaulieu, his round face pink and sweating, his hand moist as he kisses Marguerite’s ring. “The king speaks of you with the utmost love,” she says, even as she w...
But I could read his lips. The king is dead. My shriek skittered horses, rolling their eyes. I slumped to the ground, crushed by God’s own hand. Louis. My only love, taken so soon. Dear Lord, take me, too. Brother Guérin tried to help me up. “My lad...
—ABELARD TO HELOISE Of course my uncle entertained a guest that night: Roger, his assistant in the library, best known in the cloister for his wagging tongue. For a man who everyone knew could not keep a secret, he seemed privy to the most lurid details of people’s lives—which he shared freely wi...