This is a lively, captivating novel, set in the medieval Holy Roman Empire, that combines the historical detail of Dorothy Dunnett's "The Lymond Chronicles" with the spellbinding narrative of "The Other Boleyn Girl". In the summer of 1199, Willem, a naive, poor young nobleman, is summoned to the magnificent court of Konrad, the Holy Roman Emperor, whose realm spans much of Europe. Willem's champion and waggish guide to courtly life is the irrepressible but mysterious minstrel Jouglet, a longtime admirer of Willem's sister Lienor. The model of chivalry, Willem wins great honors for his knightly prowess, but soon learns that gossip, secrets, and lies are what really fuel courtly life and that he himself is the unwitting pawn in an elaborate scheme.
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"A clever novel of courtly love...entertains with a flourish."--Publishers Weekly
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Raised on Martha's Vineyard, award-winning screenwriter Nicole Galland divides her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and New York. She is currently working on her third book
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Was a little bit worried after reading Nicold Gallands first book, A Fools Tale, that she couldn't possibly write so fantastically a second time. She has not let me down. Took this book on my first Nile Cruise in Egypt and was hard pushed to put it down to enjoy the amazing sites that Egypt had to offer, I so wanted to just read one more chapter, one more chapter....!!!! Finished on the plane and then was fuming with myself for not having packed her next novel, Crossed, which I can't wait to read. This author is outstanding, I would recommend her even to people who aren't particularly interested in history as her wit and storytelling abilities are out of this world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A delicious treat!
9 Aug 2006
By Dr. B
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I thoroughly enjoyed this juicy novel, and would highly recommend it to anyone who takes pleasure in clever writing. As with the Fool's Tale (a truly wonderful book!), Galland snared me with her characters. I am most likely to reject a book if the characters are not people I can believe in, or care about, so I've put aside many a skillfully written novel on those grounds. This book will not dissapoint, but I warn you not to begin it if you won't be able to treat yourself to a minor obsession until you're done.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great hero, great book
8 Aug 2006
By Skeptical Reader
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Format:Hardcover
I eagerly picked up this novel in a pre-publication galley because I was such a huge and surprised fan of "The Fool's Tale." I was both happy to re-encounter Galland's quick and smart prose, and surprised by how different this novel is. It's less dark, ultimately, than her first novel, but quicker, odder, and more irreverent. If "The Fool's Tale" was how people coped with the various political and personal rules of life among the medieval nobility, this is a book about how people -- or, one brilliant person -- goes about subverting it. Because of that, it has an element of the fantastic: surely, no one Back Then was ever as resourceful, clever, wise and ultimately powerful as the minstrel Jouglet. But by the end of the book, it doesn't matter, just as it doesn't matter that there's never been a spy as good as James Bond. In both cases, though, you fondly hope there were.
Once again, Galland writes a historical romance that's safe for people who hate historical romances. And she does more than that: not only is this not about virtuous knights and shy maidens in castles, it's about people who laugh at those cliches, and spend their lives doing their best to escape the restrictions imposed by them. Among other things, in a world in which everyone, and everybody, is restricted as to who they can be, what they can do, even who they are allowed to speak to, Galland creates someone who achieves something like complete freedom. You end up impressed, and even envious.
I'm not giving it five stars, by the way, only because in the end I still preferred The Fool's Tale, because I personally tend towards the dark. But this is a great read, and will keep Galland's growing legions of fans happy until her next book.
Once again, Galland writes a historical romance that's safe for people who hate historical romances. And she does more than that: not only is this not about virtuous knights and shy maidens in castles, it's about people who laugh at those cliches, and spend their lives doing their best to escape the restrictions imposed by them. Among other things, in a world in which everyone, and everybody, is restricted as to who they can be, what they can do, even who they are allowed to speak to, Galland creates someone who achieves something like complete freedom. You end up impressed, and even envious.
I'm not giving it five stars, by the way, only because in the end I still preferred The Fool's Tale, because I personally tend towards the dark. But this is a great read, and will keep Galland's growing legions of fans happy until her next book.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An intriguing twist....
3 Sep 2006
By Flush Barrett-Browning
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Nicole Galland's Revenge of the Rose is an interesting twist on the medieval 'Romance of the Rose.' Its strengths are the delightful characters, the interesting presentation of historical detail for an entirely fictional background, and, my favorite, a strong heroine. Its major weakness is Galland's tendency to visualize the entire novel with little attention to interior states [this is more screenplay than novel]; her novels are very visual, but she needs to work at moving from screenplays to novels. That said, the conclusion is among the most satisfying I have ever read. It's a winner!
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