![]() While this is an alternative history, many of the events and people were real. I will warn readers not to look up too much about the history while you are reading. ![]() Most readers will already know what Vlad Dracul was most famous for, and that history will help pull in readers. Supporting characters–Mehmed, Vlad Dracul, Lada’s mother, Bogdan, Nicholae, Kumal, and Huma–are also multi-layered with interesting histories of their own. Radu is sweet and pensive, whiny and weak as a child, but strong and intentional as he grows older. ![]() She reminded me a bit of Elphaba in Wicked in that she is incredibly complex and nothing like the women of her time. From childhood, Lada is tough and clever, but she’s also mean and spiteful. I loved both and a few times, hated them as well. They were all incredibly complex, particularly Radu and Lada. ![]() When their father uses Lada and Radu as bargaining chips to save himself, the royal siblings must fend for themselves in their gilded prison in the Ottoman Empire. Lada is everything her brother Radu is not: ruthless, bold, and tough. As the only daughter of Vlad Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, Lada grows up trying hard to make her father proud. ![]()
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