Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England
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Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England and...
My Family and Other Strangers: Adventures in Family History
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When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his...
King Norodom's Head: Phnom Penh Sights Beyond the Guidebooks
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King Norodom's Head deals with sights of Phnom Penh rarely found in guidebooks. This is not,...
Whitechapel in 50 Buildings
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Why Whitechapel? Outside of the Square Mile (the City of London) it is probably the best known area...
The Blue Cupboard: Inspirations and Recollections
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This book was started as a memoir of my mother and subsequently developed into something more like a...
Gossamer Days: Spiders, Humans and Their Threads
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What happens when one making animal meets another? Gossamer Days explores the strange web of...
Cutty Sark: A Souvenir Guide to the Story of the Last of the Tea Clippers
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It is amazing that Cutty Sark has survived. Many of the clipper ships that sailed the China Seas...
Debbiereadsbook (1466 KP) rated The Princess of Draga (Draga Court #1) in Books
Feb 28, 2018
A bit of a slow burner, long build up kinda book, this one!
It reminds me a little of reading Game of Thrones, NOT in the content, not at all but in the way the stage is set with many players, who have their own agendas. Many players who have a say. Many players who did NOT get a say too!
But my overwhelming reaction to finishing this was, I missed something. Something was missing and I cannot figure out what.
There is a book before this one, Royal Guard of Draga, but reading the blurb, it isn't what I'm missing. I think what I'm missing is more history of Draga, more about the original invasion of the Neprijat monsters who have returned to take over the galaxy. We get bits and pieces, but not enough for me to get the whole picture, the whole history. Maybe that will come with future books, I dunno. That's just how I feel, and ya'll know I love to share how I feel!
I did think it would be a little more on the explicit side, given how we are introduced to Nadyah and why she is in court with Adelina, but it isn't overly.
It's a GOOD book, well written from lots of those players, it just didn't grab me and it took far longer for me to read the 276 pages than it should have. Maybe book two will be better. Off to read it now!
A good solid 3 stars
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Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There
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A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and...
Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin'
Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson and Kieran Hurley
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To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have...