Behind the Veil

The Royal Pavilions #3

by Linda Lee Chaikin

As Norman warrior Tancred Redwan journeys to Antioch to clear his name from accusations of murder, he learns that his love, Helena Lysander, has been taken captive

Genres: Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance, Historical, Christian, Fiction, Christian Historical Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 1998

About the author

Linda Chaikin is a Christian fiction author with a focus on historical fiction. She sometimes publishes using the name L.L. Chaikin.

Linda was the youngest of 10 children and her father died shortly after she was born. She wrote her first full-length novel with pen and paper at the age of 14 - this novel was later rewritten as Wednesday's Child, part of the Day to Remember series.

She met her husband, Steve, in a Bible study, and they were married 6 months later. They both went to Multnomah School for the Bible, now known as Multnomah Bible College and Biblical Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews

[Telisha · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is by far my least favorite LLC book series. While I adore the amount of historical references, time period and crusade bits of the series.
The romance is so over the top I actually start to see the fake author Joan Wilder from the movie the Romancing the Stone, sitting and crying at her type writer.
Pretty sure it will be another 20 years until I read this series again.

[Johnny Bennett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rated as a high 3. Behind the Veil finishes out the Royal Pavilions trilogy by Linda Lee Chaikin. The action and movement in this book only further highlights how the politics and intrigue in book two are merely a setup for this one. Chaikin's choice of using some "high language" in terms of thees, thous, and thus seems to really break the flow of the story at time. The conflict between moors, Turks, Armenians, Byzantines, and the rest of the crusaders does entice and is well laid out how allies weren't so allied as to not have some backbiting. Enjoyable but not brilliant.

[Darlene Mindrup · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Linda's writing, her historical info, her alpha males. Normally I give her books give star ratings, but this series depended too much on traps and escapes. It became tedious. I would have liked to have seen more of the other people's stories besides the royal courts to move the story along instead of so many capture scenes.

Normally I give give stars for Linda's books but, the capture and escape scenes became a little tedious and tiresome.

[ScriptLit-You Are What You Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

LC is such an underrated gem in the CF community. I love her books and Royal Pavilions is now a solid favorite. I love the historical background, the faith displayed in Christ and how the characters come to life. I wish I could meet Tancred in real life!!!

[Joana · Rating 1 out of 5]

0.5/5 stars.

I didn't even finish this book. It reads as if it was written in a rush because the author wanted to be over with it. Everything was boring and predictable, and the evil characters were killed in the first few chapters, so I sort of didn't see the point. (And actually, Tancred being sold as a slave -yet again- and the whole Phillip's death part reminded me a lot of Ben-Hur).

It's sad, because I really liked the first book. It had so much potential.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an exciting, keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat book. Linda Chaikin is amazing author. I can't wait to read more of her books!