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The King’s Concubine - Anne O’Brien 👑 💃🏼 • Book 38 of 2020 📚 • Quick Review: Alice Perrers, an absconded child, raised by dull nuns, finds herself swept up by the gracious and dying Queen Philippa and set to a very specific task: to keep King Edward happy. And thus begins the turbulent life of Mistress Alice, the King’s Official Concubine, at the side of an ill, ageing king. Oh, god I cried. And laughed. If you like Anne O’Brien’s work, I think this is one of her best works and would highly recommend. #currentlyreading #thekingsconcubine #anneobrien #historicalromance #historicalfiction #audiobook #bookish #bookstagram #bookworm #borrowbox #bookedit #booklover #bookcommunity #goodreadschallenge2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDtFwx0gBHI/?igshid=9iybutqi2rk0

The Shadow Queen - Anne O'Brien 👑 📚 Quick Rating: 7.5/10 ⭐️ Quick Review: A misjudged Countess Joan of Kent, princess royal is marred by rumours, questionable choices, and three husbands, who ends up mother to the next king of England. I found Joan of Kent a really interesting woman - she made the decision to marry as a 14-year-old and when her mother forces her to pretend she never married and wed her friend Will, she fights it as best as a woman in the 1340s can, and spends years fighting to regain her marriage to Thomas, a knight in the king’s army. She faces so many rumours, so many tests in her life - mostly to do with consanguinity (marrying a relative within the fourth degree) - all to keep her head held high and protect not only herself, but her children. Book 34 of 2020 📖 #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #anneobrien #theshadowqueen #historicalfiction #joanofkent #kingsandqueens #royalfiction #booksbooksbooks #bookaholic #shelfie #goodreadschallenge2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CC4GU_5gWCJ/?igshid=1u84vnpd2u4xm

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬 - 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐎’𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧 👑 Once again, Zach got in the way of my little photoshoot 📷 📚 Synopsis: 1372, the young and beautiful widow Lady Katherine Swynford presents herself for a role in the Duke John of Lancaster’s household. Thus begins a decades-long love affair wrought with scandal and guilt. Quick Review: 8/10 ✨ The romance between John of Lancaster and Katherine de Swynford is very rocky, very back and forth - they spend years barely speaking, taking turns to be miserable. It makes you feel both irritated by them and to pity them. I’ll admit finding the main characters a little cloying, but I suspect that's the actual people rather than the writing. Overall a good book, not the best I've read by Anne O'Brien so far, but still enjoyable. Book 33 of 2020 📚 📖 #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #thescandalousduchess #anneobrien #historicalfiction #dukeoflancaster #katherineswynford #bookdragon #royals #historicalromance #bookreview #plantagenet #14thcentury https://www.instagram.com/p/CCqH-pFAuHA/?igshid=qlefzy0ww15n

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖀𝖓𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜𝖓𝖊𝖉 𝕼𝖚𝖊𝖊𝖓 - 𝕬𝖓𝖓𝖊 𝕺’𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓 👑 Book 32 of 2020 📚 Really enjoyed this novella by Anne O’Brien set in 1330 about the coronation of Philippa of Hainault and the young King of England, Edward III. 8.5/10 ✨ Really quick and enjoyable, must lighter than the other historical stories I’ve read so far this year - even made me laugh a little. Would recommend! #amreading #currentread #borrowbox #theuncrownedqueen #anneobrien #bookstagram #audiobook #booksaremylife #historicalfiction #philippaofhainault #edwardiii #kingsandqueens #royalty #bookworm #goodreadschallenge2020 #goodreadschallenge https://www.instagram.com/p/CClI4J_ARNm/?igshid=19daoskiuxtm2

𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭 - 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐎'𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧 This is my first read of any of Anne O’Brien’s work (I’ve only ever read Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction books), and I must say I really enjoyed. It goes much further back than any of Gregory’s books and I learned about a whole new European royal family. Synopsis: Devil’s Consort starts out in July 1137 and follows the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a duchess at 15, then married off to the second prince of France, later King Louis VII for an alliance. Eleanor finds herself in a loveless marriage with a boy king who would rather be a monk. Quick Review: I really enjoyed listening to this on @borrowbox, it was well-read and I was quick to get into the story (of which I am completely unfamiliar). I have mixed opinions about the leading characters - but I think that is sort of the point; a monk forced to be king, a duchess forced into a marriage because the law won't let her remain duchess whilst unmarried, but equally - they are both quite selfish in their own way. Star Rating: 8/10 ⭐️ Book 31 of 2020 (image is edited as I only had the audiobook version and I'm rubbish at taking photos of my tablet!) #audiobook #bookstagram #borrowbox #devilsconsort #anneobrien #historicalfiction #eleanorofaquitaine #kinglouisvii #henryiiofengland #kingsandqueens #royalfiction #bookworm #bookish #bookishfeed https://www.instagram.com/p/CCiUebKAErm/?igshid=skj9ttxsz2fk

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