Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan

[meganbmoore]

Michael Deven is a typically ambitious young nobleman of Queen Elizabeth I’s court, a member of her pensioners and a protégé of her spymaster, Walsingham, Deven is also carrying on a secret affair with Anne Montrose, a lady in waiting to a countess in Elizabeth’s inner circle. Things are not, however, as they seem, because four years before taking

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[magicnoire]

That must be why I could never sink into this book -- the fact that the first 150 pages are all just political setup without much else going on. I just wasn't able to last that long and put the book down.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, I thought I remembered you saying that. Once you get past the 150 pages, it's pretty much worth it. You just have to get that far...