Brief Summary: Country girl, Kat, doesn't know who her parents are and is desperate to find out. After her best friend proposes and her adoptive mother dies, she decides to flee to London with her adoptive sister. Now in London, Kat uses her big mouth to land her a place in court. Now she is to be Queen Elizabeth's embroiderer.
My Views So Far: This book is pure and utter crap. There are so many random tangents that lead to no where and aren't completed. For most of the first half the author makes it seem like Katherine Parr is Kat's mother. Although now the author makes it seem like Queen Elizabeth is Kat's mother. Also, I don't know much about the history of this era....but this doesn't seem historically accurate at all. Crowley has no idea how to write imagery either. Anytime she tries to describe a scene I just want to shoot myself. Also, after chapter 10 Crowley throws in a random excerpt from the dead woman's diary between each chapters. This makes no sense at all and is completely unrelated. Confusing and sloppy, this book should have gone through a few more drafts before getting published.
What I'm Hoping For/Expecting: I'm really hoping this book magically becomes good, but I doubt that'll happen. I'm expecting to find out the secret of Kat's parents and who her mother is. I'm hoping Kat ends up with Nicholas Pigeon (really Crowley? you couldn't come up with something better than "Pigeon"???) or with Rafael. However, I'm expecting Kat to end up with Christian, her best friend. Other than that I'm not hoping for anything else from this book.
The cover however gives a very good picture of what Kat is suppose to look like. I want her hair...
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