A review by jobinsonlis
The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick

4.0

This is great. I don’t think it’s as well-written as Sharon Kay Penman’s Eleanor and Henry books but it has a whole lot more of Eleanor and as a major Eleanor of Aquitaine simp, I always want more Eleanor. I do think Louis got a bad turn here and honestly I found some of this depiction of him homophobic and I didn’t really like all the drama with her vassal Geoffrey as Eleanor’s great love but I did really like Eleanor and Henry together here. Henry in particular shines. You can see why they really thought it would work early on and you can already see the seeds of why it would all go so wrong for them.