Review: Lush, well-written historical romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2012
What an excellent book! Author Samantha Holt delivers a lush, well-written historical romance with just the right amounts of suspense, intrigue and eroticism. I'm a fan of medieval fiction, and thoroughly enjoyed this historically accurate tale of love, lust, treachery and triumph. Holt's characters leap from the page with depth and clarity, and the dialog has enough authenticity for the period without being distracting as is sometimes the case with medieval stories. The author's descriptive narrative is very visual, and brought to mind something along the lines of The Tudors, which is one of my all-time favorite HBO series- I could actually 'see' the story unfold as I was reading it. Kudos to the author, and I look forward to reading more of her work. Five stars.