Status Updates From The Splendour Falls

Wow...72% into it and its FINALLY holding my interest! I don't think I can recommend this one...

Having a very hard time with the narrator...seems they could have hired someone who didn't sound like she's been smoking for 50 years...

Wonderful so far, my favorite period in french and english history..Chinon castle, Richard the Lionheart, Prince John parents Henry and Eleanor..
Susanna is one of my favorite authors.

Almost finished! This book is incredibly wordy. I think it could have been half as long! She just rambles on and on about inconsequential things! It is NOT historical fiction. And not nearly as romantic as I hope. Very well written though....which is why I keep trudging along.

And underneath the window, as the wind swirled fiercely by, the heavy wooden door creaked further inward on its ancient hinges, beckoning.

Dun dun dun dun...

Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before.

It had seemed a good idea at the time, I reminded myself as I climbed the stairs—now, I wasn’t so sure.

Dun dun dun dun.