Karleen Koen
Paperback | Pages: 530 pages Rating: 3.92 | 4239 Users | 351 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Dark Angels |
| ISBN: | 0307339920 (ISBN13: 9780307339928) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Tamworth Saga #1, Through a Glass Darkly #1 |
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Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIV’s Baroque, mannered France for two years. Now she is returning home to England and anxious to re-establish herself quickly. First, she will regain her former position as a maid of honor to Charles II’s queen. Then she will marry the most celebrated duke of the Restoration, putting herself in a position to attain power she’s only dreamed of. As a duchess, Alice will be able to make or break her friends and enemies at will.But all is not as it seems in the rowdy, merry court of Charles II. Since the Restoration, old political alliances have frayed, and there are whispers that the king is moving to divorce his barren queen, who some wouldn’t mind seeing dead. But Alice, loyal only to a select few, is devoted to the queen, and so sets out to discover who might be making sinister plans, and if her own father is one of them. When a member of the royal family dies unexpectedly, and poison is suspected, the stakes are raised. Alice steps up her efforts to find out who is and isn’t true to the queen, learns of shocking betrayals throughout court, and meets a man that she may be falling in love with—and who will spoil all of her plans. With the suspected arrival of a known poison-maker, the atmosphere in the court electrifies, and suddenly the safety of the king himself seems uncertain. Secret plots are at play, and war is on the horizon—but will it be with the Dutch or the French? And has King Charles himself betrayed his country for greed?
The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England. Unforgettable in its dramatic force, here is a novel of love and politics, of romance and betrayal, of power and succession—and of a resourceful young woman who risks everything for pride and status in an era in which women were afforded little of either.
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| Title | : | Dark Angels (Tamworth Saga #1) |
| Author | : | Karleen Koen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 530 pages |
| Published | : | May 29th 2007 by Three Rivers Press (first published September 5th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Historical Romance |
Rating Of Books Dark Angels (Tamworth Saga #1)
Ratings: 3.92 From 4239 Users | 351 ReviewsAppraise Of Books Dark Angels (Tamworth Saga #1)
I had the good fortune to know Karleen Koen just as she was launching her successful writing career with Through A Glass Darkly, and when I lived in Houston, Texas. I discovered recently that in the more than a decade since I left Houston, she has written a couple more books, and I have just finished reading one of them.Karleen Koen is a superb storyteller as evidenced, not only by this book, but by whole sequence of books leading to this one. I found Dark Angels such a compelling story that IAnother Cracker Barrel pick. I'm reading another Koen book now - Through a Glass Darkly - that a friend recommended. They're both cute page turners with the occasional hearty sex scene. So there you are, calmly driving through, let's say, Ohio looking at the cows, and the silos, the giant Jesus crosses scattered throughout the picturesque countryside and then - bam! - he takes her (who turns out to be him) from behind, pleasuring 'her' as he does so, and just as she's about to reach orgasm,
This was my first read by Karleen Koen. A book set in Charles II's court sound interesting and full of intrigue and I decided to pick. I also have a biography of his Queen in my TBR pile and thought this could be an interesting first introduction to the period.The main character is a young lady, Alice de Verney, a former lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine who followed Princess Henrietta to France on her wedding to Monsieur, the brother of the French King Louis XIV. The beginning of this novel
"It took one misstep for a woman, one, and she fell into the abyss. How does one live life with no missteps?" While set in completely separate eras, Dark Angels evoked memories of Jennifer Donnelly's Tea Rose series, in the sense that they both are dense, historical reads that beg to be taken seriously, but somehow manage to have the theatricality of a soap opera. Which isn't a bad thing, really--I loved Donnelly's first novel in the series--but such a structure can go horribly awry very, very
The story of a young woman's scheming during the Restoration, I almost gave up on this one. I didn't really care about the heroine, I didn't like really any of the supporting characters and I just couldn't get into this book, which can only go into the category of "women's books". Which is just an adjective, not a judgment (c'mon, the protagonist is a women trying to get a rich husband and there's a lot of dress descriptions).But I needed something to read at the gym and ended picking it up from
As soon as I started questioning this book due to the unlikability of the main character, boom the dark elements started and kept up throughout. Very much enjoyed the dark elements, intrigue and sexiness of this book. Takes place in the court of Charles II and references Louis XIV and Monsieur.
I dont know a lot about the time of Charles II, but going in fairly blank, it felt very real to see the back-door politics, the royal family squabbles, the tensions between France and England, Catholic and Protestant, rich and poor, town and country, etc.The royal court also reminded me very much of a high school. Not much to do, not enough supervision, bored teenagers wandering around getting drunk, gossiping, playing pranks, trying to get together or break others up.And at the center of this
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