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The Peasant Queen (2010)

by Cheri Chesley(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

159955416X (ISBN13: 9781599554167)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bonneville

series

Peasant Queen

review 1: The story line could have been good if the writing had been good. It felt like this was the rough draft. There really wasn't any flow and has the author heard of descriptive detail? I don't think she described anything except how handsome the men looked. Some authors go too far with description, but this needed some description of something!And the main character- where was any of her thoughts? Or struggles? She just went along with each thing even though it went against her initial decisions. I am surprised an editor didn't catch any of this. Like I said- it felt like the first initial outline of an idea without any expanding and improving on it.
review 2: If this genre is fantasy writing, this text is fantastical. For the reader, the book completely demands ... morea suspension of belief. There are unexplained touches of magic rings, swords, crystals, a winged horse, and an ubiquitous black mastiff. The plot is pedestrian and predictable. The setting presumes to be a sort of 15th Century kingdom with enumerable details that challenge everything I know about that historical period’s culture, mores, and hierarchy. Characters are pretty one dimensional: a mercurial antagonist who forgets to use his magic crystal porthole to spot the whereabouts of his enemies; a longsuffering protagonist who magically pumps up his physique but can’t escape his condition; and a heroine who is an uneducated peasant with 21st Century feminist attitude and a college vocabulary. The syntax is fine, although the dialogues are a bit stilted. I had to force myself to finish this first novel. Maybe Chesley’s next production will be more believable. less

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