(COPY) Opinion on _Knight in Shining Armor_

[hilari ford]

LOVED Knight in Shining Armor! Absolutely loved it. At the time I started the
book I knew very little about Elizabethan life. The historical aspects of
the story presented the scenes to me in 3-D, large as life colour. To this
day (I read it when it first came out.) I can describe to you the chapel and
the costumes in glorious detail. But then, I 'm a real history buff. The last
3 years I have participated in Renaissance Faires and other anachronistic
activities. But then again, I was probably the only adolescent who read Lady
Chatterly's Lover and was in awe of Lawrence's attention to detail in his
scenery. :-}
Hilari
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the way Devereaux incorporated the facts of daily life at the time into
her story. I got the impression as I read it that the writer had done
research which she didn't want to waste, so she threw it into the story as
paragraphs of facts.

Any comments on this book and the presentation of historical information
in romance fiction? Also, any suggestions of authors or novels in which
history/daily life is handled well?

Renee

[Jennifer Krieg (cis)]

I *completely* agree with Hilari. I loved KSA. I felt like I was
actually taking the England tours with Dougless(sp?). I'm not sure what
Renee meant by "daily life". For I enjoyed every aspect of the book. I
frequently laughed out loud during the section when Nicholas was in the
20th century, like when he "played" in the bathroom and feared going to
the dentist. I also loved how Dougless kept him occupied with her
calculator. Who would of thought a calculator would be a version of
today's Gameboy!!! I felt the book come alive with the descriptions.
(This is unusual for me since I just briefly skim most atmosphere/scenery
descriptions.)

The only thing that disappointed me was the ending. I felt sad because
Dougless didn't get the true Nicholas but a decendent. In all other
time-travels I've read, the hero and heroine always get to spend the rest
of their lives together. Dougless deserved the real thing not a
carbon-copy substitution. So, I only disliked 2 pages of a very good
book. BTW, I own both hardback and paper copies. Also, this was the
first Deveraux I read/owned.

Jennifer Krieg (ISM)
University of South Florida, Tampa
kr...@groucho.bsn.usf.edu
je...@freenet.scri.fsu.edu

On Wed, 28 Sep 1994, hilari ford wrote:

> LOVED Knight in Shining Armor! Absolutely loved it. At the time I started the
> book I knew very little about Elizabethan life. The historical aspects of
> the story presented the scenes to me in 3-D, large as life colour. To this
> day (I read it when it first came out.) I can describe to you the chapel and
> the costumes in glorious detail. But then, I 'm a real history buff. The last
> 3 years I have participated in Renaissance Faires and other anachronistic
> activities. But then again, I was probably the only adolescent who read Lady
> Chatterly's Lover and was in awe of Lawrence's attention to detail in his
> scenery. :-}
> Hilari

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