Review: review of the whispering night
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2012
This is an awesome story by Ms. Le Veque! I just love how she blends history with actual people and events with fiction.  Every book I have read of her's which by the way is 9 including this marvelous book is unique and full of fascinating characters that I wish these people really existed or I could actually meet them.  They sound so real and literally jump off the pages especially the main characters in this book.The hero Sir Garren le Mon a very scrupulous knight and a mediary of King Richard the lion heart is in a political dispute with his brother John.  Garren is sent by William Marshall the Chancellor of England and who is also loyal to Richard, is ordered to marry into a family which includes our heroine the enticing Lady Derica de Rosa.  They are devoted and faithful to John while Garren is true to Richard.  Garren is supposed to spy on the family with the help of using Derica but upon meeting her he ends up falling in love with her.  Upon the night before the wedding Garren is revealed as a spy, with Derica's help she helps him escape.  Derica leaves afterwards with Fergus who is a friend of Garren's because she is in love with Garren too. They marry when they find each other again.  Derica's uncle is able to find them and Garren realizes that other informer's are placed in her home secretly that are sworn to William Marshall and loyal to Richard.  Her family meanwhile goes crazy attempting to find her.  They attempt to track them with no success but the family eventually captures and tortures Fergus.  Garren and Derica leave for a haunted castle and stay there happily until Garren realizes he must report back to William Marshall so goes back and admits that he did as he was told.  A war happens and Garren goes to fight for William Marshall.  Fergus find Derica and tells her that Garren is fighting she is overcome with the news. She slips falls in a river and suffers amnesia.  Fergus then goes back to report to Garren of Derica but gives him the horrible news that she is dead.  He formulates a plan with Fergus that he died in battle too.  Luckily, Derica is not dead but living at first with a peasant woman and then at another castle.  Eventually Derica and Garren find out that neither one of them has died and flee to Southern France living out their happily ever after.The novel had lots of political intrigue, battle, betrayal and frienship even though it was a romance I appreciated everything else about the book!  Ms. Le Veque just knows how to tell a satisfying gripping tale that I will probably read this book more than once too.  I believe that this saga won't get tiresome either and anyone that reads my other reviews has read that I enjoy re-reading her other books too.  I would highly recommend this book trust me you will love and enjoy it too!