{"id":1057,"date":"2010-01-17T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2010-03-17T00:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:24:36","slug":"review-of-the-rebel-princess-by-judith-koll-healey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Rebel Princess, by Judith Koll Healey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/rebel_princess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/rebel_princess.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rebel_princess\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1058\" \/><\/a><em>The Rebel Princess<\/p>\n<p>A Novel of Suspense<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Judith Koll Healey<\/p>\n<p>William Morrow (HarperCollins), 2009.  365 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed Judith Koll Healey&#8217;s earlier novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/canterburypapers.html\"><em>The Canterbury Papers,<\/em><\/a> so much, I made sure to preorder this one on Amazon so I could read it as soon as it was published.  Although I did enjoy it, I wasn&#8217;t as thoroughly captivated as with the earlier book.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Canterbury Papers<\/em> Princess Ala\u00efs, daughter of Louis VII, gets in deadly peril and falls in love.  In <em>The Rebel Princess,<\/em> she has a disagreement with her beloved.  He wants her to stay safe while he rescues her son, who doesn&#8217;t yet know he is her son.  But Ala\u00efs gets new information and is convinced her son&#8217;s life is in danger, and she must go save him.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the story isn&#8217;t such lovely romance as the earlier book.  Ala\u00efs again gets in deadly peril with court intrigue, but I felt that some of her conclusions fell into her lap, following her intuition rather than cleverness.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is another gripping adventure tale, and fans of medieval historical fiction will enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061673560\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/rebel_princess.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/rebel_princess.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rebel Princess A Novel of Suspense by Judith Koll Healey William Morrow (HarperCollins), 2009. 365 pages. I enjoyed Judith Koll Healey&#8217;s earlier novel, The Canterbury Papers, so much, I made sure to preorder this one on Amazon so I could read it as soon as it was published. Although I did enjoy it, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction-review","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}