Review: Secrets of the Tudor Court: The Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson

Beautiful. Seductive. Innocent. Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters — the princesses Margaret and Mary. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the virile young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she cannot help giving some of her heart — and more — to a man she can never marry. But the Tudor court is filled with dangers as well as seductions, and there are mysteries surrounding Jane’s birth that have made her deadly enemies. Can she cultivate her beauty and her amorous wiles to guide her along a perilous path and bring her at last to happiness? Basing her gripping tale on the life of the real Jane Popyncourt, gifted author Kate Emerson brings the Tudor monarchs, their family, and their courtiers to brilliant life in this vibrant new novel.

First off, I didn't even know that this book was based off a real person after I got done reading it. It was actually a really good book that I enjoyed. So this book is about Jane and how she became the companion to Princess Mary and Margret and also became a child of the ward to the King of England (before Henry VIII). Once she grew up, she receives attention from the young men until she becomes a mistress to a French prisoner or war. Then she goes to France to find love and to get her home back and to find out she's royalty. 

This is a good book and I do reconmend this book a whole lot if you like the Tudor Period, if you watched the show The Tudors, or you just wanna read it because its really good.

Character Casting for 'This Duchess of Mine' by Eloisa James

Hello all!

So I have been thinking about the casting of the two characters (aka lovers) in This Duchess of Mine and the more I think about it, the more it came to me. You know those videos on YouTube about character castings of who people think who's who in the books? Well I got to thinking one day about who the main characters (Jemma and Elijah-Jemijah) and I thought, who better to play the two than Natalie Portman and Daniel Gillies?

At first, I didn't know who would play Elijah in the book but I kept hearing Daniel Gillies' voice as Elijah from TVD saying everything Elijah said in the book.