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The Lady In The Tower (2009)

by Marie-Louise Jensen(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0192755315 (ISBN13: 9780192755315)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Oxford University Press

review 1: This is a really wonderful story surrounded by historical context. Basically it takes place around the time when people are starting to whisper that Henry VIII is not satisfied with Anne of Cleves as a wife. However the focus of the story is on the daughter of nobleman who has to deal with her mother being imprisoned by her father, being betrothed to someone she believes to be part of her father's plot to get rid of her mother, and to top it all of the king visits and it all goes off from there. Anyway it is the book that started my obsession with historical novels and the story is brilliant!
review 2: I am pretty tired of the spunky historical heroines who hate sewing, but I was still proud of Eleanor when she was able to show off her jousting skills, and I li... moreked her resourcefulness in trying to save her mother alone because nobody else was paying attention. The love interest, Stanton, was pretty charming too; he doesn't go around willfully misunderstanding her and condescending and getting in her way (ahem, "hero" of The Girl in the Mask). Instead he clearly likes her more and more as he gets to know her, and he is helpful when he can be -- even when she is not being particularly nice to him. Which brings me to my one qualm: Eleanor doesn't trust Stanton for most of the book, and her reasons are very understandable considering the abusive environment she grew up in. I felt like the narrative could have been more understanding about why she would believe her father's manipulations, and I didn't really want her to apologize for it. Her mother's ending was also a little too neat considering what she had gone through, but overall I really enjoyed this! less

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