Can you suggest a book for me?

Question

I need a book that takes place during the medieval ages. Something with kings and queens, knights, prince and princesses. I also want it to be a suspense but it has to have romance in it. So basically a romance novel taking place in that time but with a suspense twist to it..

Anybody got any ideas?

Some of the suggestions were good, but I wanted something where the romance was focused on a knight and a princess,or at least the princess with someone, haha

KenilWorth was good though, il have a look at that

Answer 1

''Sir Gawain And The Green Knight'' is the first one that comes to my mind although I see someone beat me to it and suggested it already. I think it's exactly what you're looking for. It not only talks about medieval ages, but it was written in medieval ages. You have romance, suspense, queens, knights, princesses, supernatural - everything you're looking for :) And it was written in an interesting pattern called ''bob and wheel'' - something that was rarely seen later on.

Of course, you can always go for an epic like Beowulf or perhaps Ivanhoe. I would also go so far as to suggest Canterbury Tales by Chaucer to you. It's quite a masterpiece told in a most interesting way (each pilgrim tells a story to keep the company amused and each story has the elements you're looking for).

Merry Christmas by the way :)
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Answer 2

Forever My Knight by Lee Ann Dansby
The Warrior by Kinley MacGregor
Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn
Everlasting By Kathleen Woodiwiss
Blackthorne's Bride by Shana Glenn
King of Storms by Amanda Scott
Untouched by Anna Campbell
The Stolen Princess by Anne Grace
Shadow Music by Julie Garwood
Wizard's Daughter by Catherine Coulter

go to www.rhapsodybookclub.com.....they have historical romance novels, everything from medieval to cowboys and Indians.........also

www.likesbooks.com/medieval.html....there is a list of medieval romance novels.....happy reading!

Answer 3

The Readings in Medieval History, The Early Middle Ages,

Answer 4

I got the perfect book for you. Its got romance between the main characters. The main character fights in the crusades and and misses his love. At the end of each chapter is a cliffhanger. Theres lots of suspense. Has knights and medieval villages, kings and queens and nobles.
Lots of battle scenes.

The Jester by James Patterson.

Answer 5

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Mists of Avalon is a generations-spanning retelling of the Arthurian legend. Its protagonist is Morgaine, who witnesses the rise of Uther Pendragon to the throne of Camelot. As a child, she is taken to Avalon by High Priestess Viviane, her maternal aunt, to become a priestess of the Mother Goddess and witnesses the rising tension between the old pagan and the new Christian religions.

After Uther dies, his son Arthur claims the throne. Arthur's half-sister Morgaine and Viviane give him the magic sword Excalibur, and with the combined force of Avalon and Camelot, Arthur drives the invasion of the Saxons away. But when his wife Gwenhwyfar fails to produce a child, she is convinced that it is a punishment of God: firstly for the presence of pagan elements, and secondly, for her forbidden love to Arthur's finest knight Lancelet (Lancelot). She increasingly becomes a religious fanatic, and relationships between Avalon and Camelot (i.e. Morgaine and herself) become hostile.

When the knights of the Round Table of Camelot leave to search for the Holy Grail, a young man seeks to usurp the throne: Mordred, bastard son of Arthur and Morgaine, conceived when the two were the center of a pagan ritual not knowing who the other was. Mordred seeks to re-instate the power of Avalon at all costs. In a climactic battle, Arthur's and Mordred's armies square off, and in the end, it is Morgaine alone who lives to tell the tale of Camelot.

Answer 6

Lord of the Rings
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

Answer 7

If you're looking for something also written close to the period and not just about the period:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Roman de la Rose

Various early versions of the Arthurian legends (Le Morte D'Arthur)

Many of these were poetry in the original but are often translated into prose.

Answer 8

The Mabinogian definitely falls into this category. Get a good, scholarly translation (I have this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMabinogion-Everymans-Library-Cloth%2Fdp%2F0375411755%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1198621726%26sr%3D8-3&tag=wwwjimpettico-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
and it is excellent. This is a collection of Welsh tales, and includes *original* stories of Arthur (pre-dating Mallory, for example), plus several characters pre-dating Arthur in antiquity.

The best serious Arthurian book is this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670018244?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwjimpettico-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0670018244
by *the* John Steinbeck. He died before completing it, but it is essentially a modern version of Le Morte de Arthur and is excellent despite its lack of completion.

Finally, I recommend the "Crystal Cave" series by Mary Stewart. This is about the life of Merlin. The first book is by far the best, containing a great deal of original material about the early life of Merlin. Later books are less original and, therefor, less excellent. There is also some explicit adult content here.

One I do not recommend: "The Mists of Avalon" series by Bradley. For starters, both Lancelot and Arthur are portrayed as homosexuals. It gets worse. The story itself is well-written, but the severe psychological and sexual dysfunction present in nearly all the characters is somewhat repellant. I don't mind the heroes having faults, but this is too much. Considerable explicit adult content.

Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com

Answer 9

KenilWorth by Walter Scott........


but its too big a novel....it has queen, knights and all stuff....but suspence no.......
more over, it is something like a tragedy as we find
in Shakespeare's Othello


But the novels of Horace Walpole would do......Like 'The
Castle of Ortranto'....try it....they are called Gothic Novels and you will find everything you need in them....try it first....ok?

Merry Christmas to You........and have happy times with books....


ha ha ha.......somebody gave me a 'Thumbs Down'!! My God! False practices on Christmas Day! LoL


Daniel...........try gothic novels of Walpole....tried that? there are also another famous novels like 'The mysteries of Udolpho' by Ann Radcliffe, Vathek by William Beckford....try them....ok?
In these you will find what you were asking......

Answer 10

Helen of Troy is a great books