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Seduction of the Scepter by E. Rose Sabin
I gave it four stars.
Review:
Sabin takes the reader back in time to a place where everything could rest on one single decision. She encourages the reader to take the journey into the depth of her leading female character, Lara, as a romantic girl with dreams, as a leader, a friend, a sister, and finally a mother.
Sabin touches on a deep routed fear of mother hood, the choice of child or lover. While it may be obvious to some what the answer is, when it actually happens that choice could make or break the family. Lara must make this choice, and Sabin executes Lara's character driven story through journal entries, which take them to a more personal level with the reader.
This reader found that Lara grew as she matured from a romanticized idea of marriage into a woman who led her country not only into battle, but to a peace despite the king being less than able to perform his duties.
The end caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting such a dramatic choice to be made in her heart as well as publicly and found the end drew back in a tightly nit circle toward the beginning.
If you are hoping for a love story with a happily ever after ending, this book will not suit you. The ending is more a relief felt with the character than a happily ever after, although in retrospect I feel Lara got the one thing she did truly want in the last pages of the book.
If you like intrigue, a plethora of drama, and a realistic idea of a woman's choices, then pick this book up and you will find yourself cheering on a well written, deeply moving character and falling with her as her judgments change and she is forced into a decision she had never hoped would happen.
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I gave it four stars.
Review:
Sabin takes the reader back in time to a place where everything could rest on one single decision. She encourages the reader to take the journey into the depth of her leading female character, Lara, as a romantic girl with dreams, as a leader, a friend, a sister, and finally a mother.
Sabin touches on a deep routed fear of mother hood, the choice of child or lover. While it may be obvious to some what the answer is, when it actually happens that choice could make or break the family. Lara must make this choice, and Sabin executes Lara's character driven story through journal entries, which take them to a more personal level with the reader.
This reader found that Lara grew as she matured from a romanticized idea of marriage into a woman who led her country not only into battle, but to a peace despite the king being less than able to perform his duties.
The end caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting such a dramatic choice to be made in her heart as well as publicly and found the end drew back in a tightly nit circle toward the beginning.
If you are hoping for a love story with a happily ever after ending, this book will not suit you. The ending is more a relief felt with the character than a happily ever after, although in retrospect I feel Lara got the one thing she did truly want in the last pages of the book.
If you like intrigue, a plethora of drama, and a realistic idea of a woman's choices, then pick this book up and you will find yourself cheering on a well written, deeply moving character and falling with her as her judgments change and she is forced into a decision she had never hoped would happen.
