(I haven't finished yet -- but I'm getting there!)
However, note that the novel omits as characters both her daughter Mathilde, the abbess of Quedlinburg, who in fact will play an important role in Operation Save Little Otto And the Regency and her daughter Emma (from her first marriage)
Aw! Yeah, I see what you mean -- it would have been nice to have that as well. I do feel like, more so than I remember in her other novels, this one has been doing a lot of telling-not-showing... like, I felt that we had to take Aspasia's close relationship with Theophanu on faith a lot.
If Henry got on the throne, the dynasty Adelheid just founded with Otto the Great would have been dead upon arrival. No way.
Oh good, I'm glad you said this, because this was confusing me as to why she was supporting Henry! (I figured I had just missed a large whack of the podcast, because, uh, I do that sometimes.)
Re: Eagle's Daughter
However, note that the novel omits as characters both her daughter Mathilde, the abbess of Quedlinburg, who in fact will play an important role in Operation Save Little Otto And the Regency and her daughter Emma (from her first marriage)
Aw! Yeah, I see what you mean -- it would have been nice to have that as well.
I do feel like, more so than I remember in her other novels, this one has been doing a lot of telling-not-showing... like, I felt that we had to take Aspasia's close relationship with Theophanu on faith a lot.
If Henry got on the throne, the dynasty Adelheid just founded with Otto the Great would have been dead upon arrival. No way.
Oh good, I'm glad you said this, because this was confusing me as to why she was supporting Henry! (I figured I had just missed a large whack of the podcast, because, uh, I do that sometimes.)