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I borrowed this book for FREE! via the Amazon Prime Lending Library. This book has got it all - historical setting (Bohemia early 1600s), madness, SEX!, love triangles, more sex!, engaging characters, exciting climax, good ending. I loved it!I was so into this book that I took my kindle to the gym and read while I bounced around on an elliptical for 30 minutes. And I stayed up late to read it, and would immediately start reading as soon as I woke up.Very engaging. So King Rudolf is the Holy Roman Emperor/King of Austria, and he has a “mad” son by his Italian mistress. When Don Julio, the son, is a grown up, he is so depraved and out of control that his father imprisons him in a castle in Bohemia… where he becomes infatuated with Marketa, the boodletter’s daughter.You get to know Marketa and the townspeople really well, and I just felt totally immersed in this book.Cheesy, but good.
If I *Wanted* a Romance, I'd *Buy* a Romance!About a quarter of the way in, this morphed into a cheesy Romance novel. What I wanted (and how it's described on Amazon) is a Historical Fiction Thriller. Why do so many authors of genre fiction featuring female protagonists feel that a romance subplot is necessary, as if no female hero's story could possibly be complete without it? BLECH!Hate to say it, but I'm beginning to feel the only way I can be certain a given book *won't* turn into a Romance is to avoid books with female protagonists. And that's incredibly disappointing to me as a reader, a woman, and as a novelist whose protagonists are usually female.
Love it!