Freda Lightfoot

[Ariadne]

I had Hostage Queen on preorder with BD, but they cancelled it unexpectedly - don't know why. Sounds like I should get it back in my cart ...

[Misfit]

I had Hostage Queen on preorder with BD, but they cancelled it unexpectedly - don't know why. Sounds like I should get it back in my cart ...

I wish the story had gone further into Margot's life (will there be a sequel?), but I liked what I read. Library ordered several copies so there is always ILL...

[Ariadne]

I could do ILL, but I'm not the best library patron - I get spoiled b/c where I work, faculty don't pay overdue fines :D Plus I collect royalty novels, so I'll probably want to buy this one and the next one too.

[annis]

Interesting - I hadn't realised Freda Lightfoot did HF , though I have read quite a few of her sagas.

Didn't the Valois madness come from the Bourbon line? Charles VI's mother Joanna of Bourbon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_of_Bourbon)had serious bouts of mental instability, and it was endemic in her family.

[Misfit]

I just finished Hostage Queen (review here (http://misfitandmom.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/hostage-queen-by-freda-lightfoot/)). I enjoyed it, and I very much appreciate her not succumbing to the temptation of sexing it up. Annis has mentioned her other books, sagas she called them. Perhaps she could enlighten me a bit further ;)

[boswellbaxter]

Her website is here:

http://www.fredalightfoot.co.uk/

[annis]

Think modern inheritor of the Catherine Cookson tradition, Misfit, though not as melodramatic as CC. If you read some of the synopses of her series listed on Fantastic Fiction, you'll get the drift.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/freda-lightfoot

[Misfit]

Thanks ladies, I'll check into it.

[Freda]

Hi everyone, glad you enjoyed HQ. Madness must have been endemic in the family as Charles VI, son of Joan of Bourbon and Charles V, was known as Charles the Mad. And yes, there is a sequel. Margot's story continues in The Reluctant Queen, together with that of Gabriel d'Estrees. Out in September in hard back. HQ is out in paperback at the end of the year. The third in the trilogy will be the Queen and the Courtesan.
Best wishes,
Freda

[Misfit]

Hi everyone, glad you enjoyed HQ. Madness must have been endemic in the family as Charles VI, son of Joan of Bourbon and Charles V, was known as Charles the Mad. And yes, there is a sequel. Margot's story continues in The Reluctant Queen, together with that of Gabriel d'Estrees. Out in September in hard back. HQ is out in paperback at the end of the year. The third in the trilogy will be the Queen and the Courtesan.
Best wishes,
Freda

Goody, I was hoping it wasn't over.

[Vanessa]

I've just finished Hostage Queen. I agree with Misfit's comments in her review. A nicely written book which was interesting and enjoyable. I feel I've learnt a little more!:)

I look forward to the next book in the series/trilogy - I've noticed that my local library has a copy of The Reluctant Queen, so I think shall hunt it out!

I do have the author's House of Angels (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/freda-lightfoot/house-of-angels.htm) on my TBR pile.