For My Lady's Heart
by Laura Kinsale
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Read in June, 2007
The one where Princess Melanthe, the widow of an Italian prince, is involved in dangerous political disputes among three Italian families over her lands and herself, and Ruck is neither married nor single, neither landed nor baseborn, neither above her nor below her.
It's been a long time since I enjoyed a romance this much.
The historical period (1400s) is so distant that a story set there has pretty much the same essential pleasure as science fiction. The people and settings are strange...more
It's been a long time since I enjoyed a romance this much.
The historical period (1400s) is so distant that a story set there has pretty much the same essential pleasure as science fiction. The people and settings are strange...more
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Read in January, 1994
Old RRA-L review:
I liked FOR MY LADY'S HEART a great deal, and I generally don't like what passes for medieval. I read it on the recommendation of someone whose opinion on books I respect, and it is what got me to read medieval romances (and Laura Kinsale in general). Most medieval romances have modern stories dressed up and in a castle. A book I otherwise enjoyed ruined the ending by having the heroine marry her dead twin sister's widower--sorry, but in the Middle Ages that was incest, n...more
I liked FOR MY LADY'S HEART a great deal, and I generally don't like what passes for medieval. I read it on the recommendation of someone whose opinion on books I respect, and it is what got me to read medieval romances (and Laura Kinsale in general). Most medieval romances have modern stories dressed up and in a castle. A book I otherwise enjoyed ruined the ending by having the heroine marry her dead twin sister's widower--sorry, but in the Middle Ages that was incest, n...more
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This is a medieval historical romance which attempts to incorporate Middle English language in the dialogue (although how successfully--even before her editors made her take out some of the Middle English to make it more accessible--is debatable), so I think this book works best for readers who’ve taken like one semester of Chaucer and can easily follow it, but who aren’t real academics because the latter tend to be annoyed that the Middle English isn’t really very good. Also, I've seen re...more
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Read in January, 2005
This is on my keeper shelf. I LOVED this book. Mostly because of the medieval time period and the language. It doesn't sugarcoat how difficult it was back then and I liked that authenticity.
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I'm kind of surprised that this got published as a romance--the writing is really kind of dense for the genre!
I enjoyed reading it, even with the usual OMG-just-TELL-him-already plot.
I enjoyed reading it, even with the usual OMG-just-TELL-him-already plot.
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Read in August, 1996
This was a great book. I love lyrical tales and this one definitely was one. It was very authentic with the dialog and I absolutely loved the secondary characters.
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Read in May, 2005
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