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The King Without a Kingdom (The Accursed Kings, Book 7)
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
Available for the first time in English, The King Wihout a Kingdom is the seventh and final volume of The Accursed Kings series.
The reign of the Capetian kings has ended and John II, ‘The Good', second of the Valois dynasty, has taken the throne.
Under his leadership the Hundred Years War, one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts in history, escalates and England and France begin to tear each other apart.Cardinal Périgord, narrating the drama, shows us a monarch as vain and cruel as he is incompetent.
Under his turbulent reign, warring factions plunder the land, famine threatens the people and the Black Death spreads far and wide. France is bleeding to death around the new king.
Critic reviews
"Blood-curdling tale of intrigue, murder, corruption and sexual passion" ( The Sunday Times)
"Dramatic and colourful as a Dumas romance but stiffened by historical accuracy and political insight" ( The Sunday Times)
"Barbaric, sensual, teeming with life, based in wide reading and sound scholarship…among the best historical novels" ( The Times Literary) Supplement
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- William Hayes
- 03-10-15
great narrator but over stylised narrative
I loved the early books in this series but this one was harder going than the rest. The first person narrative was an interesting but deeply artificial way of recounting history.
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- Good Grain
- 01-04-16
Different and weaker than the earlier books
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This novel was published seventeen years after the others and was written in a far different style as it is completely narrated by one character, a vain Cardinal Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, an important diplomat for the Avignon Papacy who relays the story of the failed monarch Jean II the Good and very successful campaign of Edward the Black Prince. The differing points of view of the characters with their different motives was what made the earlier books so enjoyable and by only having the one characters viewpoint in this book the story becomes much weaker. Its a disappointing finish to a great series.
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- Famke Sophie van der Starre
- 09-02-20
Let Down
Last book of the series and just a massive let down. I feel like the author wanted to try something new in this last book but it just doesn't work, especially when the rest of the series are completely different. Whereas the previous novels contain a plethora of characters, narrators, stories and intrigue, the concluding novel is narrated by one single person who tells the remainder of the story in retrospect. Just doesn't work. I'm afraid to say that I wasn't able to finish it...
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