Jean Plaidy
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.76 | 1231 Users | 56 Reviews
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| Title | : | Light on Lucrezia (Lucrezia Borgia #2) |
| Author | : | Jean Plaidy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1972 by Macmillan (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Fiction |
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Although I thoroughly enjoy historical fiction, I was a little surprised there was not more history put into this story. I felt it was more character analysis and I couldn’t get the feeling of the time as much as I have in her other works. I still enjoyed it, though.Identify Books Conducive To Light on Lucrezia (Lucrezia Borgia #2)
| ISBN: | 0330021044 (ISBN13: 9780330021043) |
| Series: | Lucrezia Borgia #2 |
| Characters: | Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, Gioffre Borgia, Alfonso of Aragon, Sancha of Aragon |
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Ratings: 3.76 From 1231 Users | 56 ReviewsColumn About Books Light on Lucrezia (Lucrezia Borgia #2)
What I've learned from Madonna of the Seven Hills and Light on Lucrezia is that this girl was stained by the reputation of her infamous family. The same family who she loved so much was the same family who gave her the most grief. It took me a very long time to get into this book. I got bogged down with the repetition of events (I mean really do I need a full report every time she washes her hair?) and the on/off switch of her grief. Several pages devoted to detailing Lucrezia's grief...until aSame author as Madonna of the Seven Hills - same opinion about her personification of the historic figures.
Carrying on exactly where Madonna of the Seven Hills: A Novel of the Borgias left off this is the second half of Lucrezia's life and various births, marriages and murders that seemed all to common back then. I ended up feeling really sorry for poor Lucrezia come the end of the novel, used all her life as a pawn by her father and brother so when they were both gone so was completely and utterly on her own - Jean Plaidy shows Lucrezia in a far more sympathetic light than previous stories I had
The story drags on.
Although I thoroughly enjoy historical fiction, I was a little surprised there was not more history put into this story. I felt it was more character analysis and I couldnt get the feeling of the time as much as I have in her other works. I still enjoyed it, though.
I found this book to be fascinating as well as for some reason repelling. In some ways,I actually felt badly for Cesare for the love that he felt for Lucrezia,and the love that she felt for him. It was doomed for they are both brother and sister, but they could not be satisfied with anybody else especially Cesare. He was very controlling, possessive, angry, and ambitious. Apparently, his only redeeming quality, ironically, was the love for his sister. Their father was no better, and Alexander VI
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