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The Borgia Bride - Prologue -Chapter 9
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I bought it for the Kindle back when it was on sale, so I'll check it out when I get home! Ugh, I don't know when I'm going to read it (too many other things going on right now) - I'm going to try to squeeze it in for this group read though!
Mandy wrote: "SO - if anyone else has a copy and has an idea of how to divide up the discussion, please let me know!"This is what the Table of Contents looks like (gotta love Kindle for easy copy/paste), sorry it's so long, I'm not sure how to best split it up but since my Kindle gives me percentage points I can mark off some of them off so if you want to divide it into thirds or fourths, you know where they are. Hope it helps!
ETA: I've removed the TOC since it was so long and no longer needed, it was just taking up a lot of space.
Robin - thank you so much!Without knowing exactly when/where the story might change, I think I'll just divide the discussions into thirds.
Prologue through Chapter 9 (beginning of Late Spring, 1496)
Chapter 10 through Chapter 26
and Chapter 27 through Afterword.
Sara - I searched the net yesterday, trying to find a table of contents for this book (which I couldn't, obviously.) but I did read several excerpts, including the prologue and a few pages of the first chapter. It looks really good! I'll be reading it, too, but will be starting a little late because of my library being so slow. I'd buy it, but I haven't loved Kalogridis in the past...thinking this one looks a better than the others I've tried, though.
Anyway, you and I will be a bit behind together :)
I didn't really care for the last Kalogridis I read either (it was fine, I can see why people liked it, just wasn't for me), but Amazon had this one on sale for $2 or $3 a couple months ago, so I figured it was worth the gamble. :)
No problem, Mandy.I read Devil's Queen first and thought it was good but not great - but Borgia Bride is much better, definitely worth the read. I don't know what her other books are like - I have no interest in the Vampire series and little interest in I, Mona Lisa. I have Scarlet Contessa on my to-read list but it's not highly rated.
Just began The Borgia Bride. I have been reading A Game of Thrones and its sequels this year and was immediately struck by the character names - Sancha and Jofre. So similar to Sansa and Joffrey... Interesting the way the Italian nobility viewed their illegitimate offspring.
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SO - if anyone else has a copy and has an idea of how to divide up the discussion, please let me know! Otherwise, I will stop into a Barnes and Noble later on this week :)
In the meantime, those who are already reading the book can at least begin discussing the first section, Autumn, 1488 here. And we'll add to that later.
ETA: Please discuss The Borgia Bride, prologue through chapter 9, here.