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THE ENGLISH KING WAS DYING. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting medieval action,
By booksforabuck "BooksForABuck" (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dragon's Lair (Hardcover)
Richard the Lion Hearted is being held by the Holy Roman Emperor and all England is straining to raise his ransom--except Prince John, of course, who fears for his life if his brother returns. When one caravan of ransom money is ambushed, Queen Eleanor sends her young agent Justin de Quincy to find the missing treasure. What de Quincy finds is plots within plots as Welsh prinices seek to take advantage of the situation. De Quincy travels between Wales and England looking for clues to the missing treasure. Aided by a friendly knight, a childhood friend, and several beautiful women, De Quincy picks up hints of a plot, but finding proof is more difficult. Discovering the treasure is most difficult of all--if it hasn't been destroyed in the first place. Author Sharon Kay Penman delivers a romp of a story. Queen Eleanor and Prince John are carefully rendered as the complex and tortured people they were. This isn't a classic mystery with subtle clues, cartloads of red herrings, and deep-thinking detectives. But if you're looking for a bit of action, some really nice historical detail, and a swashbuckling young hero, DRAGON'S LAIR is a definite winner.
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This review is from: Dragon's Lair (Hardcover)
This writer manages to absorb the reader in the historical period and brings to light kings, queens and those who serve them as well as the social history. In addition she tells a fast paced and complex tale, full of action and characters that ring true across eight hundred years. She hasn't been bogged down by the conventional wisdom about the time and its people (Richard - good, John - bad) instead we see them as the complex and often confounded people that they were. She shows us the struggle across the Welsh marches, the beauty of Wales and the strength of its people.She has given us a protagonist with a wonderful mixture of strengths and failings. Justin de Quincey is maturing nicely in this series. I'm looking forward to reading more about his exploits.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as the last two, but still quite fun,
By swiven (Meaux, LA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dragon's Lair (Hardcover)
In this book, Justin must travel to Wales to recover a portion of King Richard's ransom. This means that neither Nell nor Luke, my favorite characters in the series, appear at all. Instead, we have an almost entirely new cast of characters, including Molly, Justin's childhood friend and longtime crush, who might be quite interesting in subsequent books, but only if she's fleshed out a bit more. We also get to see a bit more of Bishop de Quincy.I understood from reading The Queen's Man that this was going to be a trilogy, but there are enough loose ends at the end that it is apparent that Penman anticipates at least one more Justin novel. My only quarrel with that is that she seems to have made this into too much of a transition novel. Too many new elements and characters are thrown in for Penman to do them all justice, which leaves many of them shallow and two-dimensional. The actual mystery, as usual, is convoluted and unlikely enough to give Agatha Christie pause. Either you like that sort of mystery plot or you don't, but if you do, Penman created a nicely tangled knot with this one.
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