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The King's Daughter

par Barbara Kyle

Séries: Thornleigh Saga (2)

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:Upon the death of her father, Henry VIII, Queen Mary assumes the throne after a long exile. Her first order of business is to wed the devout Prince Philip of Spain, creating a powerful alliance that will transform Mary's fanatical dream of ridding England of Protestantism into terrifying reality. And so begins the reign of Bloody Mary. . .
Even as she plans for her own nuptials, Isabel Thornleigh is helping to lay the groundwork to overthrow Mary and bring Elizabeth to power. But none of the secrets Isabel has discovered compares to the truths hidden in her own family. With her beloved father imprisoned by Queen Mary, only Carlos Valverde—a Spanish soldier of fortune—can help Isabel. Now with England's future at stake, Isabel risks all to change the course of history. . .
Praise for The Queen's Lady
"Swiftly draws you into the tumult of Renaissance England. . .a big, fast-paced novel that won't let you down. I loved it!" —Diane Haeger
"Weaves a fast-paced plot through some of the most harrowing years of English history." —Judith Merkle Riley
"Excellent, exciting, compellingly readable." —Ellen Jones.
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can't rate or review, need to think if i want to read it or not.
  winterslights | Jun 12, 2016 |
I am only 12 chapters in but feel the need to speak my mind now and come back later with my full review. Lots of people commented on the sordid scene that happens which makes you almost put down the book, I thought it couldn't be as bad as people led on but it was. I find no point in it really being in the book, Barbara Kyle could have done something else. I do like that the book focuses on Richard more because the first book was all about Honor. This book was just as good as the first one was. ( )
  Desilu42 | Aug 1, 2013 |
Great book! It had mystery, excitement, romance, knights in armour ... what else do you need? Loved it. ( )
  coffeenut1992 | May 16, 2013 |
This is the second book in the Thornleigh series, and every bit as good as the first (maybe even better). Isabel Thornleigh gets herself involved in the rebel uprising against catholic Queen Mary. At the same time she is trying to locate and rescue her father from prison where he has been placed for killing the man who shot his wife (Isabel's mother). Of course she has a handsome bad boy to help her with this mission in the form of Carlos Valverde, but is he helping or is he just using Isabel? There is heaps of action and the book never gets boring. I really enjoyed it and am giving it 4 stars. I will definitely be reading the next book in the series [The Queen's Captive]. ( )
  Roro8 | Sep 9, 2012 |
After being only lukewarm toward the previous novel in the series, The Queen's Lady, it's a surprise that I even bothered to pick up this book in the first place. Basically, I just saw it on the clearance rack at Half Price Books during their 20 percent off everything sale and figured why not? I could do with a cheap historical fiction novel about the Tudor era. After being constantly pestered by Amazon about the upcoming novel in the series, I thought it was time to decide once and for all if this was a series that I was interested in.

The King's Daughter follows the adventures of Honor Thornleigh's daughter, Isabel during the reign of Mary Tudor. As Mary prepares to marry the incredibly devout Prince Philip of Spain, Isabel prepares to marry herself, but unwittingly finds herself caught up in a scheme to dethrone the Catholic Mary and replace her with the Protestant Elizabeth. The stakes raise even higher when Mary puts Isabel's father in prison, and her only hope lies in a mysterious and roguish Spaniard.

I guess I'm not entirely sure what to expect in the next volume of the Thornleigh series. Maybe something more engaging and unexpected, but that's not what I got here. It was really just more of the same from The Queen's Lady, only surrounding a different protagonist and a different monarch. I still had issues here with Kyle's somewhat weak writing, flat characters and an overall not-that-great story. I was at least able to finish it, but I wouldn't recommend this book, or its predecessor, as anything more than a library read. ( )
  BookAddictDiary | Jul 23, 2011 |
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:Upon the death of her father, Henry VIII, Queen Mary assumes the throne after a long exile. Her first order of business is to wed the devout Prince Philip of Spain, creating a powerful alliance that will transform Mary's fanatical dream of ridding England of Protestantism into terrifying reality. And so begins the reign of Bloody Mary. . .
Even as she plans for her own nuptials, Isabel Thornleigh is helping to lay the groundwork to overthrow Mary and bring Elizabeth to power. But none of the secrets Isabel has discovered compares to the truths hidden in her own family. With her beloved father imprisoned by Queen Mary, only Carlos Valverde—a Spanish soldier of fortune—can help Isabel. Now with England's future at stake, Isabel risks all to change the course of history. . .
Praise for The Queen's Lady
"Swiftly draws you into the tumult of Renaissance England. . .a big, fast-paced novel that won't let you down. I loved it!" —Diane Haeger
"Weaves a fast-paced plot through some of the most harrowing years of English history." —Judith Merkle Riley
"Excellent, exciting, compellingly readable." —Ellen Jones.

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