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The Queen's Bastard
By: C. E. Murphy , Randy StreetFantasy eBooks eBook Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Random House Publishing Group
Series: The Inheritors' Cycle #1
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Reader Review: Belinda Primrose is trained by her father to be an assassin from the moment she can walk and to be totally loyal to het mother, the queen. So it isnât surprising that she becomes a though (and sometimes an unkind) person. She kills without remorse and uses sex to get what she wants. The book takes a few surprising turns, when she learns her new powers en how she can use those powers. As she begins to come into her power and begins to recognize what has been done to her, her control over herself begins to slip. It's this slipping control, both of Belinda over herself and of Belinda's handlers over her, that makes the story interesting. She has to learn how to regain control fast, and she makes crucial, possibly fatal, mistakes as a result. An excellently written book, but not for the faint-hearted. Be prepared to be shocked at one time or another.
“Wow. C. E. Murphy is good. Court intrigue in an alternate Elizabethan-era fantasy world: realpolitik with the sex included.”
–Kate Elliott, author of Crown of Stars
In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen’s secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine’s lover and spymaster.
Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages and able to take on any persona, Belinda can infiltrate the glittering courts of Echon where her mother’s enemies conspire. She can seduce at will and kill if she must. But Belinda’s spying takes a new twist when her witchlight appears.
Now Belinda’s powers are unlike anything Lorraine could have imagined. They can turn an obedient daughter into a rival who understands that anything can be hers, including the wickedly sensual Javier, whose throne Lorraine both covets and fears. But Javier is also witchbreed, a man whose ability rivals Belinda’s own . . . and can be just as dangerous.
Amid court intrigue and magic, loyalty and love can lead to more daring passions, as Belinda discovers that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
“C. E. Murphy vividly reimagines Renaissance Europe as a world both familiar and strange. Filled with intrigue and betrayal, her story is a chess game with six of seven sides, and I look forward to seeing what the next moves are.”
–Marie Brennan, author of Warrior and Witch
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| Title of Fantasy eBook: The Queen's Bastard | Series: The Inheritors' Cycle, , #1 |
| Release Date: 04-29-2008 | |
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| Publisher: Random House Publishing Group |
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| SKU | 9780345507099 |
| File size | 715 |
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The Queen's Bastard
Chapter One
Chapter 1
Belinda Primrose
15 March 1565
Brittany, North of Gallin
"It cannot be found out."
She knew the words as if they'd come down to her through the blood, in the first moments of awareness. There was darkness, red-tinged and warm, a battlefield of sound filling it: explosions and grumbles that came so steadily they were comforting rather than cause for alarm. There were voices, both low, but one more distant than the other. The first voice, closer, tickled through her to the very centre of her being, becoming a part of her that could never be cut away. It was that voice that carried fear into her, intense and sharp: "It cannot be found out."
In the first moments of cold, with the air screaming all around her, she heard the voice again, high and distorted. She grasped with tiny fingers at a blurred, weary face that retreated before her wide, tearless gaze. She was pressed against a different warmth, scratchy and soft and scented. She would come to know the scent as chypre, and associate it with safety for the rest of her life. She was enclosed in strong arms, the world shifting perspective dizzily as she was taken from the first, the last, glimpse she would have of her mother for twelve years.
Behind her, from the breadth of a man's chest, the less familiar voice echoed the words that seemed to define her, even at mere minutes of age: "It cannot be found out."
Then he spoke again with more clarity, the certainty and strength of love colouring his words with richness: "I know. It will not be found out, my lady. Have faith. I'll return by dawn, and by the ninth bell you must be dressed for court.
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Belinda Primrose is trained by her father to be an
April 16, 2009
Reviewer: A reader from alkmaar, NA NL
Belinda Primrose is trained by her father to be an assassin from the moment she can walk and to be totally loyal to het mother, the queen. So it isnât surprising that she becomes a though (and sometimes an unkind) person. She kills without remorse and uses sex to get what she wants. The book takes a few surprising turns, when she learns her new powers en how she can use those powers. As she begins to come into her power and begins to recognize what has been done to her, her control over herself begins to slip. It's this slipping control, both of Belinda over herself and of Belinda's handlers over her, that makes the story interesting. She has to learn how to regain control fast, and she makes crucial, possibly fatal, mistakes as a result.
An excellently written book, but not for the faint-hearted. Be prepared to be shocked at one time or another.
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