Queen of Swords | 
|  | | | Title: | Queen of Swords | | Author: | Sara Donati | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Type: | Book / Mass Market Paperback | | Publication Date: | 25 September, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 055358278X / 9780553582789 | | List Price: | $7.50 | | Amazon Price: | $7.50 | |
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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.
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Customer Reviews:
• 5th Book Delivers 12 August, 2008
Sara Donati's series just gets better with every new book. I wish I could pre-order the next book. Outstanding series of books.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ARD40A8D68QEU
• Queen Of Swords 22 January, 2008
This is an excellent read. This is the latest in a series of great books by Sara Donati. READ THEM ALL!
- Reviewed by customer ID: AV30WLQP44XCR
• Great Series Keeps Getting Better. 12 October, 2008
If you are a fan of Diana Gabaldon and her Outlander series, you will really enjoy Sara Donati's series that begins with Dawn on the Distant Shore. Queen of Swords is the fifth book in the series, detailing the lives of the Bonner family in 1814, in the midst of the British/American war of 1812 and it's complications to their family. Highly enjoyable and very hard to put down!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3HJVAQKELOM8F
• What? 26 December, 2007
This regards the quality of the book itself... Several of the pages near the beginning were cut off at the ends -- the book had been bound poorly. It was a gift for my mother and we were very disappointed.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1IIPEQKC098R7
• Strong Women Everywhere, And Not At The Men's Expense, Either! 25 January, 2008
During the War of 1812, Montreal merchant Luke Bonner searches the Caribbean for his abducted wife-to-be, Lady Jennet of Carryk. Jennet, daughter and sister of Scottish earls, is also Luke's cousin; and as the story begins, she becomes the mother of his son. Joining Luke in his quest are his Mohawk half-sister, Hannah, and a British military officer who is interested in Jennet's abductor for reasons far less personal. Jennet is rescued, and Luke learns of his son's existence. This book's opening chapters could be a novel all by themselves, as they pick up a tale that ended in another book's cliffhanger.
Jennet has turned her infant over to one of her abductor's visitors, in hope of keeping the baby safe - something she thought impossible, had she kept him with her. So Luke, Hannah, and Jennet head for Florida in pursuit of that visitor, New Orleans planter Honore Poiterin. Soon they're separated and on their way to New Orleans, where Poiterin and his grandmother - a harpy worthy of a Bronte's pen - have taken the baby, after Poiterin passes it off to his grandmother as his own child.
Now we've got the setup for the rest of the book, which in paperback reaches over 700 pages. It's a fat, delicious historical thriller, distinguished from most other works in its genre by its incredibly strong and satisfying women. Jennet and Hannah, Quaker nurse Julia Savard, Julia's giddy yet solidly grounded adolescent daughter Rachel - that list takes in just the novel's major female players. There are plenty more, and the men are equally well realized. Want a bodice-ripper? Don't bother picking this one up. Want a good, long, satisfying read, with even the villians (and they also abound!) skillfully drawn? Then this is the book for you. I'm happy to say that it works just fine as a standalone, since I read it without having heard of its author before - much less having read the previous books in this series. My one criticism is my own inability to quite believe in the Bonner and Savard families both being so utterly untouched by the prejudices of their time and place.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2O5RT4RCC4NU2
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