Shadow on the crown

416 pages

English language

Published 2013 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-02639-5
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OCLC Number:
796756210

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Marrying the much-older king of England in the year 1002, sixteen-year-old Emma of Normandy is surrounded by a treacherous court and regarded as a threat by her husband before drawing on her wits to gain a few friends and protect her station.

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The person who read the audiobook did a great job, and the story is interesting and well-told. The characters seem realistic, and the pacing is good.

I would hesitate to recommend it, at least without a content warning (that and a spoiler, coming now)--even with that, I was pretty offended that the rape scenes were described in some detail, when the consensual sex scenes were not. It isn't that I want the latter, but the former was upsetting.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • History
  • Normans
  • Queens

Places

  • Great Britain