Venus (Jane Feather's V Series Book 1)

I’m enthralled by the writing of the master of words-Jane Feather! Her stories transport you to a different time and place and her mastery of the English language is beyond all other authors of historical romance novels!I loved Polly and Nick’s story set in the Middle Ages. Passions run deep and loyal as the H/h fight to save their love!

I really love Jane Feather's books and read every one I can get my hands on/afford. That said, this is not one of her best. While she pays wonderful attention to details relevant to history and character development, there were far too many loose ends to this book. Nevertheless, it is a keeper because it is a Feather.

I'm bias because I read this book a long time ago but I liked the old English setting of the kings court and the strong headed female lead. There is one disturbing sexual sequence but other than that it has some cute romance between lead characters and the development of their relationship is very cute too.

Good story.

How many books from one author can you read? As many as you can get you hands on ..... or you run out of money.

good read

great story

Feather uses an interesting time and setting for her book and while I've seen books that had more atmosphere this one does fairly well. She also includes a great deal of information (nicely presented) about the role and lives of actors and Restoration theater. It was not uncommon for high ranking men to marry female actors so the ending for Venus wasn't out of bounds. But I do wonder how many of these women continued in their professional careers after marriage (as Polly seems set to do).Polly is also a mistress for most of the book (nice change) but started out as a 17 year old virgin (sort of hard to believe she had kept her maidenhead in her circumstances for that long a time). Feather balances this by an event I wasn't expecting towards the end of the book when no punches get pulled asBuckingham takes his revenge.I like Nick even as he cold bloodedly prepares Polly for her role in his plan. I get a sense of him as a man of his times who doesn't hesitate to put the little woman in her (lesser) place even though he loves her. He goes for the win in all battles of wit and precedence (though Polly does seem able to controlhim fairly well) and their relationship is similar to the battles of the sexes in the plays in which Polly stars.There are some nice secondary characters but I was a bit disappointed that Feather didn't use more of the great calamity of the year (the Great Plague of 1665). This book also featured Feather's low key sexual tension style but as I was expecting it, it didn't bother me as much.