About this title: Seventeenth-century France is a dangerous time and place for a Huguenot. One woman risks her life for the freedom to practice her faith. Because of their Protestant faith in a Catholic France, Huguenots Francois and Madeleine Clavell's estate is overtaken by King Louis XIV's dragoons.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781595546265ISBN:159554626X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Date Published: 2008-10-16
ISBN-13:9781595546265ISBN:159554626X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781595546265ISBN:159554626X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781595546265ISBN:159554626X
Description: New. Thomas Nelson 2008 Prerelease version. From Madeleine Clavell, the heroine of this fast-paced if narrow historical (the first in a planned series), is a former lover of Louis XIV and, unfortunately for her and her family, a Huguenot. When her family is harassed by Louis's dragoons, she goes to Versailles to exploit her past relation with the king, but her plan backfires and soon her husband is a galley slave, her daughter is sent to a convent for Catholic re-education and she and her sons ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Westbow Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781595546265ISBN:159554626X
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"A young Huegenot is persued by King Louis, the Sun King. Because of a religious difference, her parents take her away from court. Years later, married with children, she tries to ask King Louis for help against his dragoons. It backfires miserably as her husband is thrown into prison, her youngest child is put into a convent, and her house is burned to the ground. The family goes into hiding and tries to reunite. The novel does a good job of humanizing people on both sides of the religious confrontations prevalent in that period."
"What a struggle! For over one-hundred pages, I slogged through mediocre writing, awkward and stilted dialogue, and then just as it's starting to get interesting, the author decides to stop and skip almost a year! Then the plot continues where it left off and plods on for the remainder of the book.
The heavy-handed use of religion is the least of it's problems, which should have at least have fit in better and not tossed like an oversight. I could not sympathize with any of the characters, the reader only got a cursory look at them, with Madeleine being worst of the lot (what a twit). The history is superficial and thrown in randomly; it rather reminded me of a children's book or show where they're being taught by an adult. Not to mention two years pass and there is no sense of it, we're just told in ten-twenty pages, not shown. That was an opportunity wasted right there and could have been the most interesting aspect of this novel. IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN KING glossed over way too much and what remained was boring and stale.
Maybe the casual reader or more devout will enjoy it more, but I would have given up after fifty pages if I didn't have to review the sequel, A PRISONER AT VERSAILLES, and thought I should read this first. Hopefully, it will be much better because I'm really dreading it."
"I had the pleasure of interviewing Golden Keyes Parsons on my radio show, "Kingdom Highlights" regarding her new book, "In The Shadow of the Sun King", Book One in the Darkness to Light series published by Thomas Nelson This book has all the excitement of an Alexandre Dumas story. As a matter of fact it peripherally mentions what Dumas wrote about in his book, "The Man in the Iron Mask" as both stories take place around the same time regarding the same king. Although Ms. Parsons writes as fiction the story is based on the real life of her ancestors.
Madeline Clavell had had an affair with King Louis XIV but she broke it off and married Francois and they had three children. The problem is that they are Huguenots, French for Protestants) and France is a Catholic country. The King is persecuting the Huguenots and Madeline makes an appeal to the King for he family to be left alone based on her previous affair but the King will permit her request only if she resumes the affair. When she declines his offer is really when the story really takes off. For me to tell you any of the plot from here will so spoil the reading of this book that I simply cannot do it. Needless to say it is very exciting, filled with much drama, court intrigue and romance. I mentioned to Ms. Parsons that I have no idea of where book two will take us but I am very much interested in the journey.
This book is a story about the protection of God on His people. Events are manipulated by God to cause a certain outcome that no one is aware of, not even us readers, until all things are brought to their obvious conclusion. Well obvious at the end but not while we are in the middle of the event. That is one of the things that makes Ms. Parsons such a good writer
Another theme is persecution. What will we suffer for what we believe? What will we endure simply because we believe in God and we cannot turn our back on Him? The whole Clavell family goes through events that would crush others but they come through these events stronger than when they started simply because they would not give in and relied totally on God.
The characters are vivid and lively and I look forward to seeing them again in book two which comes out this month."
"This book taught me alot about the Huguenots in France under the reign of Louis XIV. It's historical fiction and although I love historical fiction, I wasn't fond of her writing style. I did learn a bit more about this time period in France, which I appreciated since I'm not too up on all of the Sun King history. Made me want to learn more."
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