With her sapphire eyes and silken dark hair, Princess Eleanor was a bewitching beauty made for a man's pleasure. Once a child bride, but...
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Oct 02, 2011
Luna
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Yazarın okuduğum ikinci kitabıydı, normalde saray entrikalarını sevmem ama Virginia Henley ikinci kitabında da bana sevdirmeyi başardı.İlkini okudugumda kitap beni çok yormuştu bi iki yeri beni rahatsız etmişti bu kitapta aynı şey olmadı dolu dolu bir kitaptı beni doyurdu salt aşktan ibaret değildi.
Kahramanlarımız kraliyet mücevheri Eleanor ile savaş beyi Simon, kitabın başında Eleanor 9 yaşında 40 yaşında bir adamla evleniyor -ben okumadan öğrenmiştim ve nasıl yani çok kötü hayatta ok More...
Kahramanlarımız kraliyet mücevheri Eleanor ile savaş beyi Simon, kitabın başında Eleanor 9 yaşında 40 yaşında bir adamla evleniyor -ben okumadan öğrenmiştim ve nasıl yani çok kötü hayatta ok More...
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Aug 07, 2011
Tracy
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This book started out to be pretty interesting and by the end I was so sick of Simon and Eleanor I wanted to scream!!! I usually enjoy Virgina Henley but this book became annoying after 2/3's the way through. Eleanor was a spoiled brat who would do stupid things on a whim just to piss Simon off so he would be "rough and passionate" in bed. Simon was a good guy who tried to do right by England and succeeded, BUT......you could always count on him to bed Eleanor as soon as he was home fr
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Aug 07, 2011
Tracy
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This book started out to be pretty interesting and by the end I was so sick of Simon and Eleanor I wanted to scream!!! I usually enjoy Virgina Henley but this book became annoying after 2/3's the way through. Eleanor was a spoiled brat who would do stupid things on a whim just to piss Simon off so he would be "rough and passionate" in bed. Simon was a good guy who tried to do right by England and succeeded, BUT......you could always count on him to bed Eleanor as soon as he was home fr
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Apr 02, 2011
Elle
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Excellent in terms of the history (though the writer does take some significant liberties, the basics are reasonably accurate). The writing style, though, detracts from what is otherwise a great story. Lots of head-hopping (shifts of POV from character to character, sometimes in the middle of a sentence (e.g. Eleanor's eyes were soft and shining and the ache in her throat equaled the one in her breast and that in her belly. First part has to be an external pov, since she can't see her own eye
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Sep 12, 2011
Julia
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In this, the second book to the Plantagenet Trilogy. The about Princess Eleanor Plantagenet, the King's "Precious Jewel", and the famous warlord Simon de Montfort, the Earl of Leicester is told with the flair and sensuality in true Virginia Henley style. The sensuality and romance elements were well-depicted and believable. Great read! I enjoyed it tremendously.
Sep 29, 2007
Hilary
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Historical: Simon de Montfort & Eleanor Plantagenet (she was daughter of Prince/King John from the days of Robin Hood). So must be 1200’s England. Pretty good writing - amusing and touching points. The message it gave grated a bit - the girl’s first love was the man who treated her intellect as equal and shared all decisions with her. Her true love, though, was the one who got his way by assaulting her senses. He believed that because he was the man, she should toe the line without protest
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Feb 15, 2008
Res
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The one where Eleanor, sister of the young Medieval king Henry III, is married at nine and widowed at seventeen. I gather she finds tempestuous true love later, but I didn't stick around.
I force myself to read fifty pages before I give up on a book, so I read fifty pages entirely made up of three things: someone gazing at something (often a mirror) and reflecting on a huge shovelful of exposition; people talking to one another and handing back and forth slightly smaller shovelfuls of More...
I force myself to read fifty pages before I give up on a book, so I read fifty pages entirely made up of three things: someone gazing at something (often a mirror) and reflecting on a huge shovelful of exposition; people talking to one another and handing back and forth slightly smaller shovelfuls of More...
Dec 22, 2011
this is a great book it is the forth time i have read this book it has romance, suspense, all mixed in as will as a little bit of history. any fan of Virginia Henley will love this book it is one of her earlier book,
May 07, 2010
Valerie
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The first romance novel I read as a preteen. I was sooo 'uncomfortable' reading this that I read it at night when everyone was asleep :)
Jul 06, 2008
Daneesha
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This was a good book. I think it took too long to get to the meat of the romance between the hero and the heroine. This story is based on real people, but obviously the author took liberties to romanticize the characters. Thank goodness because the real story of what happens to them after the book ends is really depressing!
I liked the hero. He was a true alpha male. The female was every bit his match. I emailed the author of this book and she told me to let her know what I thought of More...
I liked the hero. He was a true alpha male. The female was every bit his match. I emailed the author of this book and she told me to let her know what I thought of More...
Dec 01, 2011
Draven
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While it felt like it took FOREVER for Simon and Eleanor to get together (she spent the first quarter of the book married to some old war hero) it was worth the wait!
While I feel that in her more recent outings, Henley has lost her touch, Dragon and the Jewel is one of her best. The love scene are x-rated steamy hot, as you'd expect from one of the original masters of the genre.
While I feel that in her more recent outings, Henley has lost her touch, Dragon and the Jewel is one of her best. The love scene are x-rated steamy hot, as you'd expect from one of the original masters of the genre.
Nov 09, 2011
Selin
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Harikaydı... ara ara ilk kitabın deliliğini arsamda bu kitaba da hayran kalmadım değil... umarım serinin devamını çok beklemeyiz...
Dec 07, 2007
AA
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nothing like living with 100 women to have more than enough trash novels to pass around!
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