A Queen from the North A Royal Roses Book eBook Erin McRae Racheline Maltese
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Lady Amelia Brockett, known to her family as Meels, is having the Worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the failure of the family.
But when her older brother tries to cheer her with a trip to the races, a chance meeting with Arthur, the widowed, playboy Prince of Wales, offers Amelia the opportunity to change her life -- and Britain's fortunes -- forever.
A Queen from the North A Royal Roses Book eBook Erin McRae Racheline Maltese
Mix Downton Abbey, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, King Charles III, a non-violent Game of Thrones, and a slight twist in Shakespeare (not to mention British history), and you would get some of A Queen from the North.But you wouldn't get the clever combination of our 21st century - tablets, Tweets, charter planes - with a wonderful alt-history of a Great Britain that most definitely does not include any of a non-divided Ireland but does include a very divided north and south of the England, or a genderqueer witch being second in line for the throne, or the need to run into Boots for something vital, or a hot Canadian Prime Minister who couldn't dance (because can't Justin Trudeau dance? I think I've seen videos?). You wouldn't get a simply excellent theme about what slut-shaming is and how to fight back against it. And you definitely wouldn't get the reminder that England has always had Black as well as white people in it, and white as well as red roses.
This is a wonderfully complex alt-history romance that is both enjoyable to read and meaningful about how royalty works - and what it means to be a 21st century woman caught up in traditions that are centuries old.
And then there are the ravens ...
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A Queen from the North A Royal Roses Book eBook Erin McRae Racheline Maltese Reviews
3.5 stars
Amelia has just been dealt a blow. Her boyfriend breaks up with her right before Christmas and she doesn’t get into her top grad school. Her confidence is at an all-time low but it perks up when she attends the horse races with her oldest brother. She’s thinking it will be nice to visit London from York while she reviews her life choices and makes plans for the future. It’s at the races where she meets the Crown Prince.
Arthur, the Crown Prince, has mourned his wife for 10 years. He’s now being asked to settle down again so that he can produce an heir. Not the most romantic of circumstances but it’s under this umbrella that he meets Amelia. She’s much younger than he is, but is smart, attractive and also happens to be the only sister of one of his best friends. Could he could make this work?
Amelia and Arthur enter this ‘relationship’ like a business transaction. They go over just about everything except what to do when the relationship stops being for show and starts to get real. Can Arthur love her? Will their differences be too much to create a healthy marriage?
There’s quite a bit I’m leaving out for the sake of not providing spoilers but know that this book is not set in current UK but an environment where the country is very much fractured and magic is believed and witches hold court. It’s interesting, entertaining and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I probably should not be surprised at how much I loved this book. Generally when I read a historical fiction or royal romance type story, I'm just looking for something with all the substance of a meringue. But this book! This book is so weirdly, deeply realistic for an alternate take on history. It made me care about this ridiculous Prince Arthur, who is so much more human than one expects a man in his position to be. And it made me care not just for Amelia, whose realistic qualms and flusters are so easy to understand, but the characters that fill this story on all sides. George, who is fascinating and spooky and just wonderful. Everyone from Mr Jones to the Tim Hortons staff to the Tower ravens! They're all someone you want to know, somehow, or someone you already do. None of them feel wooden, or like after thoughts, and they all have parts to play in Amelia and Arthur's negotiations of marriage. This is really a book that I could read again, one I'd like to have on gloomy days to lift myself out of this world and into one a couple steps to the left where history made very different turns.
This was quite an entertaining read in several ways I wasn't expecting. First of all, it's a quite interesting modern alternate monarchy, still steeped in history and tradition, for the British Monarchy. This is the story of Arthur, Prince of Wales, who is a widower next in line for the throne with no heir.
It's also the story of Amelia, a daughter of nobility from Northern York, which in this world is still under conflict with the South.
They meet at a garden party, and Arthur asks her to consider marrying him.
What follows, and what kept me reading up late at night to find out what happens, is Amelia slowly becoming sucked into the regimented, isolating, and public life of a Princess. And while Arthur is a heartthrob of a Prince, he kind of waxes hot and cold depending on his public duties.
Their courtship is at first tantalizing slow in a low-steamy kind of way. They have to steal private moments and there's definitely an attraction, but then the nature of royal life gets in the way, or Arthur ghosts her (and actually about halfway through when they'd already intellectually commited to each other, Arthur's ghosting became something difficult to believe and annoying rather than teasing). The last third of the book, this "hero and heroine never in the same room" dealio wasn't as interesting any more, because when Arthur and Amelia are together, it's awesome.
And there's quite a lot of cool stuff here. Insight into what it might be like to be suddenly thrust into the public light, having to close your drapes all the time, not being able to run to the corner store for milk, etc. And there's definitely some awesome side characters I hope get a book themselves one day. There's Arthur's younger sister, who is spooky and genderqueer and has a tie to the ravens of the Tower. And there's the irrepressible Mr. Jones who becomes Amelia's personal royalty customer service representative.
Definitely worth a read for any Anglophile or lover of more formal, less steamy romances.
Mix Downton Abbey, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, King Charles III, a non-violent Game of Thrones, and a slight twist in Shakespeare (not to mention British history), and you would get some of A Queen from the North.
But you wouldn't get the clever combination of our 21st century - tablets, Tweets, charter planes - with a wonderful alt-history of a Great Britain that most definitely does not include any of a non-divided Ireland but does include a very divided north and south of the England, or a genderqueer witch being second in line for the throne, or the need to run into Boots for something vital, or a hot Canadian Prime Minister who couldn't dance (because can't Justin Trudeau dance? I think I've seen videos?). You wouldn't get a simply excellent theme about what slut-shaming is and how to fight back against it. And you definitely wouldn't get the reminder that England has always had Black as well as white people in it, and white as well as red roses.
This is a wonderfully complex alt-history romance that is both enjoyable to read and meaningful about how royalty works - and what it means to be a 21st century woman caught up in traditions that are centuries old.
And then there are the ravens ...
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