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| Title | : | The Favored Child (Wideacre #2) |
| Author | : | Philippa Gregory |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 624 pages |
| Published | : | July 2nd 2003 by Washington Square Press (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
Philippa Gregory
Paperback | Pages: 624 pages Rating: 3.62 | 10875 Users | 545 Reviews
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and "queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller Wideacre as the once-great Lacey estate is restored to its former grandeur--though not without cost.The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and formerly stunning hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House nearby, two children are being raised in protected innocence.
Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child--only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir. Sensual, gripping, and mystical, The Favored Child irresistibly sweeps the reader into a world of secrets, betrayals, and power in this revolutionary period of English history.
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| Original Title: | The Favoured Child |
| ISBN: | 0743249305 (ISBN13: 9780743249300) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Wideacre #2 |
| Characters: | Celia Havering, Dr John MacAndrew, Richard MacAndrew, Julia Lacey |
| Setting: | Sussex, England(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 3.62 From 10875 Users | 545 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books The Favored Child (Wideacre #2)
OMG, I just overwrote my review for this one with ANOTHER review. *headdesk headdesk headdesk* Fuck it, I'm not rewriting it. So Review 2.0 will just be a series of incoherent ramblings written against the deadline of my laptop battery cacking on me.* OMG, the gloomz & doomz in this one got me down, but not as much if I hadn't previously read The Girl From Storyville where the heroine also made all kinds of decisions that screwed her life six ways from Sunday, AND The Women of Eden which hadPhilippa Gregory is an incredible author, she knows how to make a 'page-turner' and I have enjoyed many of her books. This book has been my least favorite of all the books I have read of hers, because, the protagonist-Julia Lacey- is such a complete wuss that she allows her entire world to crumble and become ruined until finally at the very last moment does she stand up for herself. This really is a case of too little too late. She has been protecting her cousin/brother Richard for her whole
In this second book in the Wideacre trilogy, Julia and her cousin Richard have grown up together among the ruins of their family estate and have always planned to marry, despite their guardians disapproval. When, as a teenager, Julia begins to demonstrate a talent for working with the land and its inhabitants, Richard grows resentful. After all, only one of them can be the rumored favored child, the true heir to Wideacre.Gregorys early works are starting to remind me of V.C. Andrews style of
Where to start? I began reading The Favoured Child a few weeks after I finished Wideacre. And at times I felt as if it were a tired, dragged on retelling of the first book.The author's language is maddeningly repetitive. The book could have done a lot better without the endless descriptions of the land and the water and how beautiful and fertile and awesome it was...Like I get the point!Although it was a gripping read, and the ending was heartwrenching, I was simply tired by the mindlessly
I loved this book. I will give a full review on it later today. Stay tuned my GoodReads friends and family. Enjoy and Be Blessed.Diamond
I wasn't quite so keen on this one. As in, seriously, incest was weird in the first book, and totally unnecessary in this one. And the emotional abuse and guilt tripping of Julia by Richard was just not on. Plus, I didn't connect with the characters in the same way. In Beatrice, there were elements of her personality which I liked, or recognised from myself, like the fact that she's stubborn and knows her own mind. That made her relatable for me, meaning that even when she did some horrific
Fascinating, gripping, sexual, sensuous, grim, incestuous, a little mysterious, horrifying, unrelenting despair (and by comparison, I think Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbeyvilles got off light)if these adjectives don't discourage you away from this love-it-or-hate-it book, you're in for a real ride. Philippa Gregory's "The Favored Child" was written so expertly it did not depend too heavily on "Wideacre" (the first book of her trilogy) ... I know this because I did not read the first book, but
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