Queen Charlotte
Reviews
My favorite book I’ve read so far this year. It’s heartbreaking and joyous and everything.
Imagine me not loving this book! Reading it with the soundtrack makes it 10 times better 🥺
Loved it, loved it, loved it! Convinced my mom to read it too and usually, she's not the reading type
I loved this book even more than the show. It was so good to read what the different characters are thinking and really get a feeling of each environment. The book includes some small scenes that I believe added a deeper understanding of the characters as well.
such a good read! for the most part it was like the tv show with some added scenes here and there. but it was cool to have an idea of what the characters were thinking in certain scenes.
it's not a sad ending, but it still made me cry.
Highlights
At some point, her numbness had bled into despair. And at some point after that, the despair had given way to rage.
But the heavens were safe. The sun and the stars and the planets. Me- teors and moons. He could not hurt them. And they would never look down upon him with shame.
He’d thought she was pretty.
That was all he'd thought, really, when he saw her standing by the wall. But then she spoke.
And he was lost forever.
When Charlotte spoke, the world came alive. She was fierce and stubborn and shockingly forthright. Her intelligence transformed her pretty tace into something incandescent. Truly, he did not know a woman could be so beautiful.
She was a star. She was a comet. She was everything that sparkled in in the night sky, brought down to earth by magic the church swore did not exist.
Yesterday, her tears would have flowed.. Hot and angry, with all the passion of her youth. But now she was to be Queen. Whatever lay inside a person, creating tears, forming sobs it had been switched off. She did not cry.
Her mind Was righteous and she was scared. on fire. Her fury was and with every mile she was hurtling toward a future she did not understand. She knew what was happening, but she did not know why, and it made her feel stupid and small.
"The earth is brown,” George said again. “That which springs all life, all hope. It is brown. It is lovely."
“George,” she implored, “I will stand with you between the heavens and the earth. I will tell you were you are.”
"you did not go over the wall?"
"no,george.. i did not go over the wall"
"your line will live on"
"our line"
"come, hide from the heavens with me"
''i have loved you desperately i coudnt breath when youre not near, i love you charlotte... my heart calls your name"
"i will stand with you between the heavens and the earth, i will tell you where you are, do you love me?"
"i am a madman, i am a danger, in my mind there are different worlds creeping in, i have the heavens and the earth collied, i-i do not know where i am"
"you are spectacular"
"oh you are beautiful" he smiles "my wife is beautiful"
"untie the king!"
"that is...a deformed bunny"
"im always behind you your highness-- five paces behind"
"a woman like that is too dangerous for a man like me--"
"or maybe a perfect match"
"you think?"
"you are a rare jewel"
"im very good with buttons"
"you are breathtaking"
"it is an even day"
"i should have gone over the wall"