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Dear Ms Quinn,
As Jane says, I love me some swashbuckling. As historically incorrect as it is, I love Errol Flynn’s “Robin Hood” over any other version with its sword fights, stave fights, and lots of archery. I guess I must have misread something into your description of your medieval story because I kind of had the idea that this is what I’d be getting. Lots of action scenes of the hero saving people and generally doing lots of “Scarlet Pimpernel-esque” medieval derring do. Instead, you give us a nice medieval love story that, unfortunately for me, is low on “guy movie” scenes.
Isabelle’s first meeting with Gruffydd ap Hywel wasn’t a great success. After he saved her from the clutches of a lecherous squire, he disappeared into the crowd at the marriage celebration of King John’s illegitimate daughter to the Welsh prince, Llewelyn. Six years later, neither is overjoyed to see the other at their own wedding, carried out under orders of the English King and Welsh prince. But this isn’t an age when a subject can say “no” and the deed is done. Isabelle journeys back with her lord to his Welsh …
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