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The lion and the crow by eli easton5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The narrator does all kinds of wonderful voices – appropriate to the time and place of the story – and makes you feel like you are watching a movie or something similar. ![]() The narration coupled with the expert writing are superb. When it came out on audio and I listened to a sample I just had to have it! I was not disappointed. I am NOT a historical romance fan, and I put off reading this for a long time. She is never too wordy and chooses her words with the utmost care. ** I love this author, she is absolutely gifted in her ability to draw you into a story and immerse you in the POV of her characters. Well… I’m not so sure why the end needed to go beyond the HEA – I suppose ripping my heart out was a requirement! – but it was beautiful even if I’d wished I’d never read it. In the end we see our lover with a HEA and …. Eli is a master at making us fall in love with her characters and given the time period and constraints it was a daunting task but she did it! I even loved Christian’s wife – yes wife!- and thought that aspect of their lives was really depicted marvelously. The romance is slow to build but hot and tender. ![]() Christian and William are both sons of nobility and live in a time (Medieval) when the church and society fear homosexuality (while ignoring it if Royalty are involved.) There is absolutely no way these two can be a couple – except that Eli Easton manages to find a beautiful solution to their problem. ![]()
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