The Maid of the White Hands

Reader reviewed by Mairi

The Queen of the Western Isle has died, leaving the throne in contention as Princess Isolde is wed to King Mark of Cornwall. Isolde, by the Mother-right, is Queen. Isolde departs Cornwall at once, though this also means leaving her lover, Tristan, at the mercy of her greatest rival for his heart- Blanche, the beautiful princess of France, the maid of the white hands.

I have been working my way through this series for, oh, a year and a half now, and am finding each book unique. The Maid of the White Hands, for example, is a beautiful book that makes many very valid points about the nature of love. You miss a lot of this book if you just read it without thinking about it, and I like that.

Another great thing about this book is that, by this point in the series, the characters' hormones have quieted down a bit.