Blood of the White Rose eBook Ellie Huncote
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May 1471. On their way to another battle in the long-drawn-out civil war that will come to be known as the Wars of the Roses, the hopeful Yorkist party, led by their glorious king Edward IV, make a stop in Malmesbury, an ancient country abbey town. Before facing the battle, the men – nobles and commoners alike – take what may be their last opportunity to enjoy wine and women, before the slaughter to come at Tewkesbury.
For one Malmesbury girl, those brief two days will change her life forever. Drawn to a handsome young noble she sees swimming in the river, they form a sudden, deep and ultimately tragic attachment to each other, and it is only as he rides away that she discovers the identity of her mysterious lover, and realises how utterly beyond her reach he is. And it is only after he has gone that she realises he has left her a gift far more lasting and precious than the antique ruby ring he pressed upon her as a token of the love they shared…
This is the story of Connie Stone, elder daughter of a respectable town family, whose heart is broken by her first and only love affair, but who fights fearlessly in defence of the lover she cannot name; of her son, whose blood may be noble but whose heart is as impetuous and stubborn as his father’s; and of the two men who come to shape their lives.
It is the tale of the desperate courage of a king who fights for the life he never believed he might one day possess, of the dangerous love he owes his bastard son, and the unwavering loyalty of his closest friend and ally, their destinies woven together by the determination of one woman.
Blood of the White Rose eBook Ellie Huncote
I wish this book was true. It was a sweet love story that lasted until his death. Even though I knew he was gong to die, I so much wished it wouldn't happened. It is a wonderful historical romance and give it my highest recommendation. It is must read for anyone interested in him.Product details
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Blood of the White Rose eBook Ellie Huncote Reviews
Folks, please meet our heroine Connie, a 17-years-old virgin peasant who swears she will only give her "precious gift" to her one true love by page 2, drools over a naked young stranger swimming in the local river by around page 7, barely exchanges names and surrenders him her "virtue" thrice in little more than an hour by around page 10 and after hardly a night's rest there she goes again at dawn unfastening her lover's leggings with the expertise of a seasoned harlot for some more sessions of heated romps in the not yet bloody meadows around Tewkesbury. I've heard of porns where the characters had more conversation than in the first chapter of this novel...
The stranger calls himself Richard and is noone less than the teenaged Duke of Gloucester, later king Richard III, who will leave her with child and proceed with his plan to marry his childhood sweetheart and lately very much bullied Anne Neville, leaving the girl to brood over him and him over her.
Richard III had 2 acknowledged illegitimate children (John and Katherine) who were very well cared for by their father and who most historians agree were born before his marriage to Anne Neville in mid 1472. Noone knows the name of their mother/s, and in an age when mistresses were no secret this is in itself quite an indication of the very little role she/they played (I personally second the plural), especially if one compares it to the hell Richard went through to marry his "most dearly beloved consort" Anne.
Why this author chose to depict the mother of yet another imaginary bastard son by Richard as the one and true only love of the rest of their life after some sex and make a whole book out of it when she had the real life version of Romeo and Juliet with the Richard and Anne story ready for depiction is beyond me. Add to it that picturing Richard as mistreating and eventually raping his former mistress and mother of the other bastard children he barely acknowledges here, marrying his wife for duty with his mind obssesedly set on this imaginary peasant lover when in reality he renounced lands and titles to obtain his brother George's final consent to marry Anne (and had all England's heiresses and European princesses to choose from), documentedly doted upon her and their son and was utterly heartbroken and almost demented over their Death (a death that here is constantly almost longed for by Richard and his peasant lover to favour a reunion), makes for as disrespectful a fantasy of the historical figure and character of Richard III as other fantasies of incest with nieces, etc.
One is almost tempted to think of the Shakesperean scheming monster with affection, if the wise Governor of the North and the enlightened King who introduced major reforms in the laws is to be depicted as a sex-obsessed, love-lorn idiot slighting his legitimate family and political duties for the sake of a chick lit drama.
Furthermore, for a light read for a few hours easy fun in digital edition this book is definitely overpriced. The product description and the long preview make it at least possible for the potential readers to make their choice honestly, so if you like the medieval heated Mills & Boon kind with a few famous names sticked to it, enjoy, but if you are looking for a more poignant, complete and historically accurate fiction novel on Richard III that is also a terrific romance, you definitely have to look somewhere else and my top of the list recommendations still are The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman and Rhoda Edwards' Fortune's Wheel and Some Touch of Pity/The Broken Sword.
I'm just about finished reading this story and for the most part I really liked it. I did enjoy the fictional heroine Connie Stone and the characterization of Francis Lovell. For the most part, I also liked the author's depiction of Richard though some things did bother me a bit. Although there wasn't much interaction between Richard and his brother, Edward any interplay between them was a bit prickly, to say the least. Young Richard was very much in awe of his elder brother and was very loyal to him so the idea that Richard would abandon his obligation to his King came across as unrealistic. For a time I thought the author was planning to rewrite history as the story was leading that way but of course, without giving anything away, Richard making a decision that would not only go against his sense of duty but put the country through great civil strife is not only unlikely but totally unthinkable. Also, the idea that Francis Lovell lives into old age is pure fantasy as history states that he most likely was killed in battle or later died from his wounds just a couple of years after RIII's death. All in all, a guilty pleasure read so if you go it into with that in mind, you should enjoy...at least until the end. ; (
I wish this book was true. It was a sweet love story that lasted until his death. Even though I knew he was gong to die, I so much wished it wouldn't happened. It is a wonderful historical romance and give it my highest recommendation. It is must read for anyone interested in him.
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