Lady Hotspur, Tessa Gratton
Lady Hotspur, Tessa Gratton
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Lady Hotspur

Author: Tessa Gratton

Narrator: Jessica Hayles

Unabridged: 29 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2020


Synopsis

"In a pleasing voice, Jessica Hayles narrates an epic tale set in the days when knights, magic, and royalty ruled the land." -- AudioFile Magazine

Tessa Gratton's Lady Hotspur is a sweeping, heart-stopping Shakespearean novel of betrayal and battlefields and destiny.

STRIKE FAST, LOVE HARD, LIVE FOREVER

This is the motto of the Lady Knights--sworn to fealty under a struggling kingdom, promised to defend the prospective heir, Banna Mora.

But when a fearsome rebellion overthrows the throne, Mora is faced with an agonizing choice: give up everything she's been raised to love, and allow a king-killer to be rewarded--or retake the throne, and take up arms against the newest heir, Hal Bolingbrooke, Mora's own childhood best friend and sworn head of the Lady Knights.

Hal loathes being a Prince; she's much more comfortable instated on the Throne of Misrule, a racous underground nether-court where passion rules all. She yearns to live up to the wishes of everyone she loves best--but that means sacrificing her own heart, and so she will disappoint everyone until the moment she can rise to prove those expectations wrong.

And between these two fierce Princes is the woman who will decide all their fates--Lady Isarna Hotspur, the fiery and bold knight whose support will turn the tides of the coming war.

About Tessa Gratton

TESSA GRATTON is the author of adult SFF titles The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur from Tor Books, as well as the original fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine from McElderry Books. Her YA series and short stories have been translated into twenty-two languages. Though she has lived all over the world, she currently resides alongside the Kansas prairie with her wife.


Reviews

If I’m being super picky, 4.75 because we got off to a rough start.......more

3,5⭐️ Tengo que reconocer que la historia engancha desde el principio. Sus tres protagonistas se ven enfrentadas ante una rebelión que derroca al rey, por lo que Banna Mora, su sucesora debe renunciar a todo aquello que le pertenece o reclamar su poder y levantarse en contra de la nueva sucesora. Hal......more

Goodreads review by Maja

LIFE'S TOO SHORT FOR BOOKS LIKE THIS DNF at 15% I was attracted to the idea of a feminist epic fantasy. However, the reality fell WAY short of my expectation. I was turned off almost from the beginning and just kept thinking 'when is it acceptable for me to throw this out?' 👎 WHAT I DISLIKED 👎 Incoheren......more

Actual Rating: 4.5 stars Slow, deliberate, deeply character-driven, and definitively queer, Lady Hotspur is a follow-up to The Queens of Innis Lear, with events occurring a few generations later. I would definitely recommend reading Queens of Innis Lear first, as I think this would be very confusing......more

Goodreads review by Anabel

En general ha sido una gran montaña rusa, tanto de emociones como de velocidad lectora, unas partes llenas de salseo, otras llenas de descubrimientos, y otras de cara al final llenas de sangre y acción. Ha sido una lectura que me deja un vacío, siento que me falta sumergirme en Innis Lear al final d......more