This is not solely a work of historical fiction, as it is interspersed with a modern setting. However, the details of Corsair abductions carried out on the English coasts in the early 17th Century, told in exquisite and exotic detail, despite the horrors upon those whom it befell, makes this a st...
Johnson is a great storyteller, very natural and engrossing, and I enjoyed the setup of her parallel adventure/discovery stories. Unfortunately I had gripes about the main character's personality / choices, and it made it hard to be invested in her emotional journey. Ditto for basically everyone ...
The 10th gift of beauty that comes from God is BOOKS! Julia visits Morocco to learn about the place Catherine was taken to by pirates in 1625, from all she had known in Cornwall, England. A great story with lots of detail & some interesting history- of the 2 countries, it's people & embroidery....
I was suprised by how much I liked this.I enjoyed both Isabelle's and Mariata's story and feel that Jane Johnson balanced the stories really well.You don't get bored with either of them cause she stops the story of one person when it becomes really interesting and continues with the other person ...
I really love historical fiction set in exotic places with different cultures and this book seemed just up my alley. In seventeenth century Morocco, we enter the court of the Sultan Ismail, who reigns with an iron fist and sends people to their death on a whim. His harem is filled with beautiful ...
Sultánova žena se mi opravdu moc líbila, byl to příběh plný intrik, krutosti a závisti, ale také i lásky, přátelství a pomoci, kterou jste našli tam, kde byste ji rozhodně nečekali. Je to kniha, kde zasáhl osud spojením dvou ztracených duší. Najdou díky zásahu osudu svůj smysl života? Nebo budou ...
