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Bezig met laden... Queen of Swordsdoor Sara Donati
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  JBroda | Sep 24, 2021 |    ) Tess_W | Nov 2, 2019 | Fire Along the Sky ended with Jennet Scott Huntar, the Bonners' distant cousin from Scotland, being kidnapped near a British prison for Americans captured in the War of 1812 - just as Jennet's love, Luke Bonner, helps his younger half-brother Daniel Bonner escape the prison, with the help of his half-sister Hannah Bonner. All Jennet is able to leave behind as clues are a couple of tarot cards, one of which is the Queen of Swords. (It's never explained what message Jennet was trying to send, but it is pretty clear to me that Hannah is the Queen, and she is the major character in this book.) Queen of Swords begins nearly a year later, with Jennet's rescue in the French Antilles in August 1814. Jennet gave birth to Luke's son, Nathaniel, while in captivity, but sent him away, supposedly to safety, with a man called Honoré Poiterin. Stopping first in Haiti and then in Pensacola, Florida, the Bonners learn Poiterin and his formidable grandmother are claiming Nathaniel as his own, and have taken him to New Orleans. So of course the Bonners go there, setting up the story to intersect with the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815. Other than a few letters, and an appearance by a couple at the end, the Bonner family back in Paradise, New York, and in Montreal play little part in this book. Jennet and Hannah both endure assaults, and Hannah reunites with an old friend from her New York days, Dr. Paul Savard, and meets his half-brother Ben, of mixed race like herself. You can probably predict where that goes. Nevertheless, it's an exciting book, and I learned a little about the Battle of New Orleans and some of the real people connected with it, who appear as characters in this book: Andrew Jackson, Edward Livingston and his wife Louise, and Jacques Villeré and his son Gabriel. I'm looking forward to the final book in the series, and finding out what happens to the rest of the Bonner clan and their friends. © Amanda Pape - 2017 [The book was borrowed from and returned to my local public library.] (  )1  riofriotex | Jan 14, 2017 |  ) booklovers2 | Sep 10, 2016 |  ) Clueless | Jul 8, 2013 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke's wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet's rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they'd hoped for. In the spring she had given birth to Luke's son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping him safe. To claim the child, Hannah, Luke, and Jennet must journey first to Pensacola. There they learn a great deal about the family that has the baby. The Poiterins are a very rich, very powerful Creole family, totally without scruple. The matriarch of the family has left Pensacola for New Orleans and taken the child she now claims as her great-grandson with her. New Orleans is a city on the brink of war, a city where prejudice thrives and where Hannah, half Mohawk, must tread softly. Careful plans are made as the Bonners set out to find and reclaim young Nathaniel Bonner. Plans that go terribly awry, isolating them from each other in a dangerous city at the worst of times. Sure that all is lost, and sick unto death, Hannah finds herself in the care of a family and a friend from her past, Dr. Paul de Guise Savard dit Saint-d'Uzet. It is Dr. Savard and his wife who save Hannah's life, but Dr. Savard's half brother who offers her real hope. Jean-Benoit Savard, the great-grandson of French settlers, slaves, and Choctaw and Seminole Indians, is the one man who knows the city well enough to engineer the miracle that will reunite the Bonners and send them home to Lake in the Clouds. With Ben Savard's guidance, allies are drawn from every segment of New Orleans's population and from Andrew Jackson's army, now pouring into the city in preparation for what will be the last major battle of the War of 1812. From the Hardcover edition.. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
LibraryThing-AuteurSara Donati is een LibraryThing auteur: een auteur die zijn persoonlijke bibliotheek toont op LibraryThing. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.12)
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This is the saga of the Bonner family which started in 1792 with book 1 and Elizabeth Middleton coming to America from Britain. She arrives in the mountains of New York and takes over the schooling of the children and attracts the attention of Nathanial Bonner. Through the next 4 books we watch as their love story grows and they face the good and bad of what is put before them, all the while building a family.
Book 5 has us on adventure as two of the children of Elizabeth and Nathaniel search for their wife and cousin, Jennet, who has been abducted. Their search takes them from the New York mountains to Hati, to New Orleans. In the Big Easy, The Battle of New Orleans is gearing up and they find themselves caught, unable to return home.
Donati's writing and research are pitch perfect.
I have the last book [b:The Endless Forest|5292764|The Endless Forest (Wilderness, #6)|Sara Donati|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1262375790l/5292764._SX50_.jpg|6450953] ready to go. However, I hesitate as I know I will be sad to leave this family. (