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I love the history in the Morland Dynasty series . This book disappoints simply because of the way Annunciata is drawn. She's depicted as being extremely self centred ,masterful & ambitious even by the standards of that particularly difficult period .And a truly atrocious mother! Every time she thinks she's found true love & every time finds some ridiculous reason to fall out of love (in this book).How does one fall in love with a man you helped raise as a child? One admires a charismatic heroine- here I felt no empathy for Annunciata's character & kept hoping she'd finally receive her just deserts .Sadly this did not happen.

Tired of reading about Annunciata. Looks like the next book isn't focused so much on her though, thank god.

This book covers the Morland family during the end of Charles II's reign, and through the end of his brother James II's reign, ending with the Glorious Revolution. As always, I thoroughly enjoyed the family, the characters, and the history unfolding around them. This book focuses on Annunciata, though, who is my least favorite Morland woman yet. She never really grows or develops as a person, and always seems to want to sleep with inappropriate men. I enjoyed it, though, and I'm looking forward to reading the next one.

This is the 6th book in the Morland Dynasty, and my favourite since the first. The political intrigue was simple enough for me to understand, and it is now moving into a period I've never previously studied. Keeps an interesting balance between the lives and loves of the Morlands themselves, the social history of the period, and the historical and political events of the time.

Entertaining. I am beginning to really like the interplay between family members. This is really a historical fiction soap opera.

Dynesties

It was an easy read. I loved the dynesty. I enjoyed how each were explained. It was like I was there

Not one of my favourites of this series - though in a way it's hard to separate out the individual books. This is the second book in which Annunciata plays a major role, and it's hard to sympathise with her when she treats her children so appallingly and appears to think only of her own pleasure. But at least she is interesting, and the series continues to intrigue me, and teach me a considerable amount about English history.

God, this book seemed interminable! I can't blame the story or the writing or the research, all of which were up to Harrod-Eagles's normal, excellent standards. No, I blame *growl* Annunciata. I loathe that spoiled, narcissistic, self-indulged, self-centered, amoral, and thoroughly sybaritic bitch. She never grew, never changed, never left behind any of her selfish ways; was perfectly content, happy even, to leap from man to man, husband to husband, uncaring as to what vows, what laws of man or God she broke, unfeeling as to whose hearts she trampled in her quest for a life in which her needs and her whims were satisfied. To hell with anyone who might dare get in her way or oppose her desires. Including her own children, one of the main nuisances in her life once they aged past the cute and easily-passed-off-to-nanny infant stage.

Grrrrr!

Every time Annunciata climbed into a saddle, I hoped she'd break her pretty white neck.

Annunciata , Countess of Chelmsford, is now wealthy and well connected and a close friend of King Charles II. But jealousy among her children and Annunciata's constant search for love bring chaos as rebellion and hatred of James II flood England, bring siege warfare to Morland Place. More romance - sometimes annoying - and less history than in other volume,s but still gripping reading.

Regarding the Kindle version: The story is good, but...

But... the editing is atrocious. So distracting. And sometimes the reader has to stop and guess at what the mis-typed words are even supposed to mean. I've been reading the series, and the editing is progressively worse with each book.

I enjoy this series, although like all series some books are stronger than other. This one, detailing Annunciata Moreland and her involvement in the courts of Charles II and James II is a weak entry, mostly due to the fact that Annunciata is petty, vain, and highly annoying. Also, the marriage and dating pool of the Morelands is insular, reaaaaaalllly insular.

Read August 2020