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Úklady Královského Dvora (2012)

by Michelle Diener(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Domino

series

Susanna Horenbout and John Parker

review 1: King Henry VIII sends to Ghent for a court artist. What he gets surprises all - a female. His reaction is similar to Henry I's reaction in Mistress of the Art of Death by the late Ariana Franklin. Women are not coroners nor are they artists. The man he has sent to Dover to get her, John Parker, discovers that not only is she talented but she is beautiful. Parker is smitten. Susanna Horenbout knows something that is causing people to want to kill her. Parker decides that he must guard her at all costs - not only for the king but himself. Parker is not someone you would want to cross and make angry - he is one bada**. All who cross him end up dead. Parker finds the person responsible and they pay dearly. He falls deeply in love with Susanna but must ask the king's... more permission to marry. Henry grants him permission and he marries Susanna. The fact that these two actually existed and did marry makes the storyline even more appealing. The flavor of the age is there as Diener has done her research. Because the chapters are short, the book is an easy read. I will read the second in the series.
review 2: This was....nice. More romance than I expected. Much more. But that was not a bad thing since I like romance in my books.The history felt wallpapery and yet not. If that makes sense. Susanna, John Parker and a lot of the secondary characters were actual historical figures and the events surrounding them are based in history as well. And yet, these people could have been run-of-the-mill fictional characters and the the dangerous events could have been just as easily been fictitious as well. I simply didn't get that 'immersed in history' feel that you sometimes get when reading a really good historical fiction (or even some earlier historical romances for that matter).But even so, it was a still a fun read and I generally liked both Susanna and John. One thing that really stood out for Susanna was how the author brought her to life when she was painting or sketching. I think the passages that described how she was almost compelled to draw were well done and evocative. John felt more like a typical romance hero, but even so -- he was still an arresting character.Liked it enough to hunt up the next one in the series. less

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