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Girl On The Golden Coin: A Novel Of Frances Stuart (2014)

by Marci Jefferson(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1250037220 (ISBN13: 9781250037220)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: While I love historical fiction, I am not the "typical" romance novel reader. I gravitated to this work after learning about it through VCU's Daily TelegRAM, an electronic bulletin for the university system. As Jefferson is a graduate of the University, her work was featured as newsworthy. I struggled to feel engaged with the story for the first few chapters, as history about the monarchs of France and England during the 17th century is not my strong suit. It is certainly an interesting look at the relationship between religion, politics and the monarchy and worth the time to read.
review 2: This novel is a little bit confusing at first, unless you are intimately familiar with British and French royal and noble genealogies of the 16th and 17th centuries. The... morere's a quite a bit that gets referenced but isn't really clear; some of it is irrelevant, so can be passed off as color for the story, but some matters. The tables included in the beginning of the book are not much help; I think an actual chart would have been more useful. Also the typeface used for the quotations that begin each chapter is very difficult to read. But inside all of that is a really enchanting little story about love. less

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