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Par La Grâce De Sa Majesté (2013)

by Jennifer Blake(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

229005819X (ISBN13: 9782290058190)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

J'ai Lu

series

The Three Graces

review 1: While Isabel is a plucky heroine and Rand is a decent hero, I struggled a little to enjoy the book. Rand, despite being baseborn, has developed a close friendship with Henry VII, having been in exile with the king. When he sees Isabel and decides he wants her, Henry makes it happen. Isabel and her two younger sisters have been overseen by her step-brother since their father's death, and of course being women of their time they have no say in their own futures. I can deal with that, I've ready plenty of books with heroines in the same situation. But the king is a step up from the male head of the family, capriciously arranging the lives of not just young unmarried women, but of anyone around him as he sees fit. One minute he could be a great friend to Rand, and the next he'... mores accused Rand of a murder and had him imprisoned. He just left a sour taste in my mouth that impeded my enjoyment of the story. And then Isabel summed it up: She hated it, hated that anyone, even a king, could so discompose her. It was the power he held, she knew, the power to decide the life or death of others in an instant, to extend pain or joy, to shut someone away from the light forever or to set them free. No one should have such arbitrary control over another soul. I read that paragraph twice, and suddenly I looked at the whole story in a different light. Like, before that paragraph, Henry's whims and decrees were just matter of fact and accepted. That's life. That's just the way it is. But after reading that paragraph, I saw Henry as just another obstacle for the hero and heroine to overcome.
review 2: Ordered to marry Sir Randall Braesford by both Henry VII and her hated stepbrother, Isabel Milton travels to Braesford to marry him only to have her betrothed arrested the same night and on her way back to the king. The King's mistress and love child has disappeared. Instead of immediately sending Braesford to the tower, he insists the two marry while he investigates. Isabel finds Braesford to be not at all what she had expected. Even though her stepbrother also forced the marriage, she suspects he still has designs on her dowry and lands as a woman has no rights at all in this time. I shelved this under historical romance suspense as the plot in this story is not only about two people falling in love but also about kidnapping, murder and attempts to make Sir Randall Braesford guilty.Isabel, not willing to leave her fate in her stepbrother's hands decides to take matter into her own hands.I thought this novel had a rather slow start but it picked it up as it went along and ended up with a thrilling bang. less

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