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Title: The Queen's Lady
ISBN: 0373772319
Author:
Shannon Drake
Publicate Date: 2007-11-01
Publish: 2007-11-01
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: Loved It!
This was my second Shannon Drake book and I really enjoyed it. The history of it was great as it revolved around the rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth. I would recommend!
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2: Beautiful Book
I loved this book, it was both historical fiction and told the story of the rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots and was a beautiful love story of one of her ladies in waiting. It is a book I will reread in the future.
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3: strong historical fiction
As a child she left Scotland for France accompanied by the four Mary Ladies in Waiting. Finally in 1561 recently widowed nineteen years old Queen Mary, no long the Queen of France, has returned to Scotland to sit on the throne. Accompanying the young Queen is her close friend Lady Gwyneth MacLeod. Gwyneth listens closely to Mary's desires and offers sage advice to go carefully with her heart as there are many who resent losing power with the monarch's return. However, as she warns her regal friend, Gwyneth ironically struggles to heed her own advice. Instead she is attracted to Lord Rowan Graham, whom she is not sure she should trust.
Mary sends Gwyneth and Rowan on a mission together in which their allure for one another openly ignites as desire tugs at both of them. However, treachery places the pair in danger with Gwyneth forced to choose between the love of her heart and the love of her friend; either choice may lead to execution.
THE QUEEN'S LADY is a strong historical fiction enhanced by a wonderful romantic subplot. The story line hones in on the political instability and overall country-wide chaos caused by Mary's return to Scotland. The difficult relationship between the lead couple augments Shannon Drake's entreatingly profound look at the fifteenth century furor caused by Mary Queen of Scots homecoming.
Harriet Klausner
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4: Pet Peeve: Starting a story with the almost ending
I love Shannon Drake's stories as well as those she writes another another name. So this review isabout the way she write the story not the story itself.
It was probably a great story. That era seems to instill alot of intrigue.
What I absolutlely don't like is to to start reading a book that begins with the ending... Knowing that the main character went through a summarized list of horrors, was seemingly betrayed by a lover, yadda, yadda, I am sposed to turn the page and go back to the beginning and start all over again?
I don't think so.... I skipped to the last chapter and of course all ends happily etc. Why should I suffer through the intrigue?
I don't like that kind of story writing and I don't care to read it. It is just part of my reading preference.
So for those of you that were determined to read it through, good for you.
I admire you...
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5: This one is a keeper
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for Shannon Drake's books, eventhough some of them were not that great. Luckily 'The Queen's Lady' is Shannon Drake's best book yet. This book is well researched and well written, with characters that are believable and lovable. Even their trials and tribulations, and their actions, are never out of sync with their characters and time period. I love both Gwen and Rowan. Gwen is headstrong, loyal to the very end, and very passionate about what she believes in and loves. Rowan is every bit a Knight in Shining Armor of the time past. Their love for each other is constant and very heartwarming in such a shaky and violent era they live in. Read this book, you'll love it!
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