Aybuke Sahin Sahin থেকে Bijelo Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Okay... Bravely starting this on-going review as I read... Damn. I hoped it wasn't. But it was. Oh, it was. After wandering, dying... being reborn, evolving... Yeah. Back. And... uh-oh. By the way, this review is probably going to make the least bit of sense of anything you're ever going to read. Don't let it worry you. About 35% through... and there's way too many kisses being passed around with all these doods. Dang. Good grief. This is just atom bomb after nuclear warhead after cannon ball blast. Reading this book is like walking through a mine field. What in the hell?? Who writes this amazing tripe?? Oh, yeah. Big old Lady Balls Moning. Okay. So now I begin to understand this hero, Jericho Barrons. Hm. Entirely deep, his substance has coagulated into such intricate knot work of complexity. Finally. Toward the end of the game here, and new characters are being introduced. *READER RAGE--Oh! Damn deceiving book. ...Ah, dammit. Never mind. Just disregard this whole review. Right. It's over now. It took me 5 days to read this series. The first started off slow and not very interesting to me... then the second book EXPLODED in my mind and I burned through the rest of the books without sleeping very much. Now I can get my life back. And take a nap.
Valentina is Sky O'Malley's great-niece, and like the family matriarch she has an independent spirit and a voluptuous body. She is beloved by Queen Elizabeth but goes eastward to experience all the possible forms of sexual pleasure a woman can know before finding her true love at last. All this sounds pretty terrible, doesn't it? But Bertrice Small has a way of making Val more human and more engaging than most romance novel heroines. There's a section about the court life where Elizabeth is unable to eat properly because her teeth are all gone -- but no one dares to deal with the problem. Val solves it with gentleness and understanding, and it's a real window into royal history. She's not exactly strong-willed, but she's a survivor and she knows how to adapt to every new circumstance. I liked her and wanted her to be happy. A great book for those who love harem romance and Tudor history.