A review by dariananddragons
The Virgin Widow by Anne O'Brien
5.0
Read this a while ago and can't believe I forgot to add it because I'd love to read more like this.
Like others here I'd read The Kingmakers Daughter before this and that's why I was interested to read this (I think this book is older but the other is more popular because of the Starz series and everything).
This is a much more happy retelling since the other is a more gritty, realistic historical fiction and this is a romance.
Anne in the other is a lot more shy and easily persuaded. She tries to resist, but she is ultimately at the mercy of the men in her life.
This novels Anne is more of a Lizzie Bennet type of Anne. She's very spirited, a little naive and very endearing.
Some of the foreshadowing is very on the nose. Anne would think "well I'm sure this bad thing won't happen," and I would picture someone looking into a camera like on The Office...because of course that bad thing was going to happen.
I really enjoyed this Authors style, and I enjoyed reading a story where one of my favorite oft fictionalized historical figures gets to be happy for once.
Like others here I'd read The Kingmakers Daughter before this and that's why I was interested to read this (I think this book is older but the other is more popular because of the Starz series and everything).
This is a much more happy retelling since the other is a more gritty, realistic historical fiction and this is a romance.
Anne in the other is a lot more shy and easily persuaded. She tries to resist, but she is ultimately at the mercy of the men in her life.
This novels Anne is more of a Lizzie Bennet type of Anne. She's very spirited, a little naive and very endearing.
Some of the foreshadowing is very on the nose. Anne would think "well I'm sure this bad thing won't happen," and I would picture someone looking into a camera like on The Office...because of course that bad thing was going to happen.
I really enjoyed this Authors style, and I enjoyed reading a story where one of my favorite oft fictionalized historical figures gets to be happy for once.