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Sofia
by
Ann Chamberlin (Goodreads Author)
"Sofia" caused a sensation in Turkey where it spent over six months on the bestsellers list. Real historical figures come to life in the exotic sixteenth-century Ottoman world of intrigue and opulence Turks call The Reign of the Favored Women: An ambitious young noblewoman from Venice captured by corsairs and sold into the Sultan's harem vows her future will hold...more
Paperback, 372 pages
Published
December 21st 2003
by Authors Choice Press
(first published 1998)
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NUTSHELL: Two plots that could've been a pair of companion novels, so let's call it a 7.
Two plots again? Yep, though at least these went together, and knowing that there are two more sequels, they make even more sense. Unfortunately, I didn't know that when I started reading -- or, indeed, when I finished. Oops.
So how would you have done it? Split them by narrator. We have one in the first-person, Giorgio/Abdullah, and one in the third, Sofia/Safiye. Each of the subsequent bo...more
Two plots again? Yep, though at least these went together, and knowing that there are two more sequels, they make even more sense. Unfortunately, I didn't know that when I started reading -- or, indeed, when I finished. Oops.
So how would you have done it? Split them by narrator. We have one in the first-person, Giorgio/Abdullah, and one in the third, Sofia/Safiye. Each of the subsequent bo...more
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