Review Date: 8/19/2008
- Paperback: 656 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone (July 2, 2003)
- ISBN-13: 978-0743249294
"Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as she is
beautiful, refuses to conform to the social
customs of her time. Destined to lose her
family name and beloved Wideacre estate
once she is wed, Beatrice will use any
means necessary to protect her ancestral
heritage. Seduction, betrayal, even murder
-- Beatrice's passion is without apology or
conscience. "She is a Lacey of Wideacre,"
her father warns, "and whatever she does,
however she behaves, will always be fitting."
Yet even as Beatrice's scheming seems
about to yield her dream, she is haunted
by the one living person who knows the
extent of her plans...and her capacity for evil."
Generally, I have fallen in love with most of
Gregory's stories about Henry VIII's wives so I
guess I was expecting too much from this
series of books. Although, the book was okay,
it definitely was not as good as her books on
the royal family or even the gardeners of the
royal family. I just never got really got hooked
on the story of Beatrice, even though she was
certainly an unusual character. She came off
pretty much as a spoiled bitch and it was hard
to find any sympathy for her. Everything that
happened to her was brought on by her own
selfish acts. Even though I am going to try to
read the other two books in this series, I
intend to wait awhile and see if they are better
after an absence of Gregory's writing.
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