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Sto caricando le informazioni... Evergreen Gallant (1965)di Jean Plaidy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The reign of King Henri IV of France. A plodding, anecdotal history from Plaidy - readable and accessible as usual, but not as gripping as a story (even the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre takes up little more than a page). Henri, the loveable and loving King of Navarre, marries Margot, a Princess of France and daughter of Catherine de Medici; he then moves onto several other women, has many children, fights in wars, and cheats death - until he falls at the hand of an assassin. Should be exciting, but isn't in this telling - perhaps there was little fiction could add to fact? Here, Plaidy is merely competent as a storyteller, and better at introducing characters from the past. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Certain scenes and events are brought to life, but most of the time we’re told by the third-person narrator what happened, when it could’ve been dramatized to make the reader feel part of the action.
We also get a lot of repeated info – a Plaidy trait – which is a waste of words.
Henri IV, and his first wife Margot, are fascinating characters, so it’s a shame the author didn’t make more of this. she does a better job in her Catherine de Medici series, which covers much of what happens in “Evergreen Gallant”.
In short, this isn’t a bad read, but has potential to be a whole lot better. An opportunity missed. ( )