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A review by lchamberlin97
The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
5.0
I loved this. Plain and simple.
Alienor is my favorite type of character. I saw her as the strong but realistic woman who wants to be in control of her life and loves a little power, though not to the extent that it distracts her from being human. Complex, entertaining, FABULOUS.
I'm a huge fan of historical fiction in general because I like the element of truth to it. Now, in this case, I know that everything that happens may or may not be strictly true. But maybe that's part of what I like about it - these were real people, and this plausibly could have happened. And yet it seems like something completely made up. That makes for the best kind of story! I don't have to waste my time debating if humans would actually behave this way, or if chance would allow this to happen.
Anyway, I'm very excited to read the next one.
(Full disclosure: I knew NOTHING about Alienor/Eleanor's story before reading this. I kept it that way because I wanted to be carried away by this story rather than Wikepedia's story. I listened to the author's description of what she decided to be true afterward and learned more about the for-sure versus fiction of the novel.)
Alienor is my favorite type of character. I saw her as the strong but realistic woman who wants to be in control of her life and loves a little power, though not to the extent that it distracts her from being human. Complex, entertaining, FABULOUS.
I'm a huge fan of historical fiction in general because I like the element of truth to it. Now, in this case, I know that everything that happens may or may not be strictly true. But maybe that's part of what I like about it - these were real people, and this plausibly could have happened. And yet it seems like something completely made up. That makes for the best kind of story! I don't have to waste my time debating if humans would actually behave this way, or if chance would allow this to happen.
Anyway, I'm very excited to read the next one.
(Full disclosure: I knew NOTHING about Alienor/Eleanor's story before reading this. I kept it that way because I wanted to be carried away by this story rather than Wikepedia's story. I listened to the author's description of what she decided to be true afterward and learned more about the for-sure versus fiction of the novel.)