A Good Knight's Kiss
Emily Klein
language
(, Sept. 20, 2016)
A Good Knight's Kiss is a romantic coming of age story. John is born as the bastard son of a baron, who advises him to lead a clean life, uncontrolled by passion. intially meant to be the heir, as his father meant to marry his birth mother, he's sent to train as knight. his uncanny cleverness and insight, and his red hair, cause his step mother to fear him, thinking him a devilish deamon. As he sets off for his new life, to serve as page,squire, then knight to his uncle by marriage, John renounces his right to the land and title, in favour of his sickly half brother. But, as often happens, he falls in love, with his lord's daughter, no less. He realises that claiming his patrimony once more might win him her hand. John struggles all his life to heed his father's decree, and to keep his oaths to his lord, and to his lord's daughter, but also his oath to never claim the title. however, he is sensitive, astute and fiery, and his conflicting loyalties and wants drive him onwards.a