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Blood Royal (Mass Market Paperback)

by Harold Robbins (Author), Junius Podrug (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Forge; New edition edition (23 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0765347229
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765347220
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 510,942 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was just an ordinary young woman when she was selected to be the Prince's bride and future queen. But she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over - and five months later, pregnant with the heir to the throne, she threw herself down a flight of stairs. And after suffering degradation and humiliation at the hands of her husband, the Princess took the ultimate revenge. To defend herself, the Princess reaches across the Atlantic and hires Marlowe James. Dubbed the "burning bed lawyer" by the news media because of her successful defence of women who kill their abusive husbands, Marlowe not only has to battle with barristers loyal to the Crown, but has to come to grips with her own feelings about a woman who was handed everything any woman would desire, and then threw it away. The explosive tale that will be exposed in the courtroom is one of jealous rage and unfulfilled desire, sexual deceit by one of the most powerful men on earth - and bloody revenge enacted by a woman scorned!

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Blood Royal" is surprisingly good, but not flawless, 9 Jan 2007
The latest Robbins book I read was "Descent from Xanadu" (1984), which was one of the worst books I've read in a long time. "Blood Royal" is Robbins' sixth, or so, posthumous novel and my guess it that co-writer Podrug deserves most of the credit.

The main story is about the American lawyer who's hired to defend the princess of wales who has killed her husband, the prince. There are a number of subplots, a mystery about frozen bodies turning up in Westminster Abeby, and the flashback story of Marlowe's life. True to Robbins's style, there's also lots of gratuitous sex "You must be a knight, you have a long lance). While some of the subplots, especially the mystery, are not fully developed, they kept my interest. When there were about 20 pages left, I was wondering how the book would be able to tie tie it all together so quickly, but the ending was a nice surprise.

The book does have its flaws. Some dialogue should have been polished and some obvious mistakes should have been discovered by the editor, most notably one chapter where the narrative suddenly switches from first person to third person, and back to first person again. But the flaws aren't big enough to destroy the book, and I found "Blood Royal" to be a surprisingly enjoyable read.
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