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I finished American Adulterer - hopefully going to get to the end of St Thomas' Eve by Jean Plaidy tomorrow!

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American Adulterer by Jed Mercruio (3.5/5) This historical novel explores the life of JFK. It takes the reader from his election to his tragic assassination. I admit that when I started it I wasn’t so keen on it. It has an analytical narrative style, (Kennedy is always referred to as ’the subject’ and it takes some getting used too.) I admit to that the first hundred pages did kind of bore me with Kennedy just getting off with a different girl on every days (charmingly, three are referred to as Faddle, Fuddle and Fiddle and are interchangeable for the president.) There are only a few mistresses who we are given names for. However there are moments of really complex writing that make the book interest. JFK’s relationships with both Jackie O and Marilyn Monroe are explored and I came away with a deep sympathy for Marilyn, while finding the Kennedys marriage intriguing. Although complicated, there were obviously real moments of tenderness between them and the chapter in which they lost baby Patrick had me in tears. The way Mercruio writes the president with his children, John and Caroline, is adorable. Overall, a good read if a bit slow to start with.

I love historical fiction so I'm sure I will! Thanks again!

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Poppyshake, thanks for writing such detailed reviews, there really good! I'm going to give Girl in the Blue Dress and Amenable Women a go!

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I read some more of American Adulterer today

The Kings Secret Matter by Jean Plaidy (4/5) Now books like these are ones that make me love Jean Plaidy. After Uneasy Lies The Head, it took me a while to crack another one of hers but I am so glad I did. Secret Matter it brilliant! Plaidys writes beautifully of Katherine of Aragorns pain as Henry VIII battles to divorce her and then in the end abandons her without so much as a good by. She also writes Poor little Princess Mary well. By giving the characters she writes about such depth, Plaidy turned out a brilliant novel here. Recommended for Tudor fans.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' Pride and Prejudice

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Just finished The Kings Secret Matter!

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So I got stressed last night with exams and did what every girl who loves reading does - pulled Pride and Prejudice off the shelf and went to the ball I have also now begun The Pearl by Douglas Smith which I am loving - anything to do with 18/19th century Russia, throw it my way!

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I read another chunk of The Kings Secret Matter today and should be finished soon!