Siravit Taweehan Taweehan itibaren Dilambwe, Demokratická republika Kongo
I still can't believe that Archer is the bad guy. It was a shocker and it was sad cuz he liked her too. :(
Great book. great film adaptation. Great. Great. Great.
Absolutely fascinating!
I really enjoyed this book, although probably not quite as much as Vaillant's first book, The Golden Spruce. I love the way Vaillant writes (much in the way that I think) taking a basic tale and augmenting it with volumes of information that help you appreciate the story much more fully than you would were it simply written as plot.
The one where Princess Melanthe, the widow of an Italian prince, is involved in dangerous political disputes among three Italian families over her lands and herself, and Ruck is neither married nor single, neither landed nor baseborn, neither above her nor below her. It's been a long time since I enjoyed a romance this much. The historical period (1400s) is so distant that a story set there has pretty much the same essential pleasure as science fiction. The people and settings are strange, vivid, and wonderful. I found it particularly interesting to read sex scenes with medieval language and medieval conflicts -- very sexy, too, in spite of the alienness of the people. Both characters have complex, urgent, strange problems, and I was very involved with them both. It's nice to read a story where it's the woman who has to deal with the dangers of power; I loved Melanthe's high-risk maneuvering to get herself a little freedom.