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The Queen's Captive (2010)

by Barbara Kyle(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

075823855X (ISBN13: 9780758238559)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Kensington

series

Thornleigh

review 1: This historical novel had me hooked within the first few pages. Even when I realized it was not the first book in the Thornfield series (and the rest were in my library bag), I didn’t put it down but kept reading. Why? Because the heroine is a woman of a certain age. At the start of the series, a few books back, Honor was a young innocent who fell into an adventure. Pretty standard premise. Here, she’s been married for decades to Richard, her heartthrob from Book 1, they’ve raised children, and they are really too old to be gallivanting around trying to topple a monarch. But they do anyway. Both Honor and her husband long for peaceful resolutions to their troubles, but trouble just keeps finding them and Kyle keeps the pace of the story snapping along. What happens t... moreo young, beautiful, lusty main characters once that first adventure is over? Give full credit to author Kyle for portraying her characters in middle age and keeping it real. There is still plenty of passion that motivates the (younger) characters to take risks, but what I loved was the role Kyle sets for Honor: she uses her brains and experience to try and influence a young Princess Elizabeth, who is on the verge of decisions that affect her life and the fate of the realm. Honor becomes a mentor to the princess, even if Elizabeth doesn’t always welcome the advice. I’m rather glad to have made Honor’s acquaintance at this stage of her life. Now on to the “The Queen’s Lady” to see whether her younger self is as interesting.
review 2: I am really going to give this book 3 1/2 stars. I didn't love it but it still sucked me in anyways. I am in a complete tudor England phase and this was a nice break of pace from my other current novels. This novel focused more on post Henry VIII rule and on Queen Mary's rule and Princess Elizabeth's rise to the thrown. My only issue with the book is there were tons and tons of people. So many that you sometimes got lost in what you were reading. I do think that I might go back and read one of her early books since I really did like the characters that were created in the book. Not a must read, but still for those Tudor England/Elizabethean England fans a good read. less

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