The Queen’s Vow by C.W. Gortner Published by: Ballantine Books Published on: June 12, 2012 Page Count: 400 Genre: Historical Fiction Book Trailer: via YouTube My Reading Format: Review copy provided by the publisher in order to participate in the Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tour. For more information about this tour, click on the tour [...]
The Sunday Salon 9.7.08 & 100th Review Contest
7 Sep By 12 Comments
This has been a productive week in Literate Housewife Review land. I read three and a half books, hosted a book tour, got nominated for a BBAW award, and published two reviews, which brought me just one review away from my 100th review! I remember back in January of 2007 that I never in my [...]
#98 ~ The Last Queen
4 Sep By 19 Comments
The Last Queen: A Novel by C.W. Gortner I am pleased to publish this review as one of the stops on C.W. Gortner’s Virtual Book Tour! The Last Queen tells the story of middle child of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, Juana. She watched her parents take back the country of Spain from the Moors [...]
The Sunday Salon
Well, the theme for this week was getting caught in someone else’s hell. First, Melmoth the Wanderer. I gave this book a good college try. I swear it. I read it as often as possible and found parts of it interesting. I got about 275 pages in and I just couldn’t take it any more. [...]