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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.

2022-11-14 18:47