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Killer Queen
This is a story of Lady Alflæd, wife to King Peada—and the first Christian queen of Mercia.
She is known for killing her husband.
And not only killing him, but ‘foully’ slaying him, with ‘treachery’ and ‘betrayal’.
Seventh-century Britain is a violent time, with uneasy alliances between warring kingdoms. Realms are stitched together by convenient marriages and brutal battles, and torn apart by bitter betrayals and bloody revenge.
It is also a time of spiritual change, when a new Christian doctrine is sweeping the land, replacing Anglo-Saxon heathenism.
But history is never kind to powerful women. His-tory is rarely the same as Her-story.
So this is a tale of what might have happened, an intimate look at the life of a young woman living in an age of great strife, charged with uniting two vast realms and transitioning from paganism to Christianity.
It is also a story of a woman just trying to make it in a savage world, where—much like today—choices are limited, men hold the power, and it takes courage to survive.
this book has explicit violence and adult themes.
YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
She is known for killing her husband.
And not only killing him, but ‘foully’ slaying him, with ‘treachery’ and ‘betrayal’.
Seventh-century Britain is a violent time, with uneasy alliances between warring kingdoms. Realms are stitched together by convenient marriages and brutal battles, and torn apart by bitter betrayals and bloody revenge.
It is also a time of spiritual change, when a new Christian doctrine is sweeping the land, replacing Anglo-Saxon heathenism.
But history is never kind to powerful women. His-tory is rarely the same as Her-story.
So this is a tale of what might have happened, an intimate look at the life of a young woman living in an age of great strife, charged with uniting two vast realms and transitioning from paganism to Christianity.
It is also a story of a woman just trying to make it in a savage world, where—much like today—choices are limited, men hold the power, and it takes courage to survive.
this book has explicit violence and adult themes.
YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
658 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 25, 2018
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September 12, 2018
Killer Queen, Killer Queen-in-Law
I LOVE this book! I didn't know anything much about Alfead and less about Lead a. The story line is believable. The last chapter is AWESOME! Unexpected.
I LOVE this book! I didn't know anything much about Alfead and less about Lead a. The story line is believable. The last chapter is AWESOME! Unexpected.
May 19, 2018
Not too bad of a book, it is actually part of The Last Pagan Queen series but is more with Pendas and the woman he marries. I will have to say it does get a bit slow at times but that is because it focuses on how much the new Queen has to put up with from her father, the priest her father assigns to her, her fears of her husband and of course trying to be a good "Christian" and follow all of the rules. It does get better and easier to read in the book and I won't spoil how things go. I just look forward to part II of Killer Queen to see how things end.
July 9, 2018
Interesting
Quite a few centuries back in British history, before it was one country & instead consisted of a few areas. Different vowel formations unfamiliar to modern English.
Quite a few centuries back in British history, before it was one country & instead consisted of a few areas. Different vowel formations unfamiliar to modern English.
September 18, 2018
Too much erm and hmmm
Really liked the story line. Really disliked the over use of the words erm and hmmm. Has a Romeo and Juliette feel to the story.
Really liked the story line. Really disliked the over use of the words erm and hmmm. Has a Romeo and Juliette feel to the story.
October 28, 2021
Very difficult read
I found the heorine hard to like. She was very pious and judgemental of other characters. The book was very hard to finish.
I found the heorine hard to like. She was very pious and judgemental of other characters. The book was very hard to finish.
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