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 | The Queen's Bastard by C. E. Murphy | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Del Rey
http://www.randomhouse.com ISBN: 0345494644 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Fantasy Release date: April 2008 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 432 Price: $14.00 | |||
| From the moment she could crawl, her furtive father, Lord Drake, raised and trained Belinda Primrose by himself as an assassin. He also pounded into her an allegiance to his liege, Queen Lorraine of Aulun. Drake has never informed his daughter who her mother is, as that could prove dangerous - she is Lorraine’s illegitimate offspring.
Years ago Lorraine’s most dangerous rival, Queen Sandalia of Gallin, miscarried when she learned her husband had died. To protect the throne with a male heir, especially from ambitious Lorraine, Sandalia abducted a newborn she named Prince Javier. In 1561, Javier and Belinda meet for the first when she is in Gallin on an espionage mission. He falls in love with her, and she feels the same about him, but her loyalty from birth is to her sire, and he knows what must come before desire. Still their attraction grows, as they soon learn they share in common that each is a "witchbreed" magic user. This sixteenth-century fantasy is much darker than the author’s romantic urban fantasies, as power and politics supersede ethics; for instance Belinda encourages her beloved to rape an adversary. Dark historical fantasy fans will appreciate this well-written opening act of what looks to be a solid series; but setting up the cast, era, and machinations at times slows down the storyline. Still The Queen's Bastard is a solid first entry. | |||
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