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Book Review By Laura J. Miller
The King of the Castle by Victoria Holt

Dallas Lawson is a young woman who learns painting and other forms of art from her father. When her father dies, she decides to take over his business restoring old paintings. She arrives at Chateau Gaillard where her father had been hired to restore the family portraits. She falls for the Comte and uncovers a web of lies and betrayal. Then Dallas discovers the family's best kept secret and endangers her own life and the lives of all those she holds dear.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched?
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:
Making a living subplot Yes
Making a living: - office romance among coworkers
Struggling with whom? - Brother
Inner struggle subplot Yes
Struggle with...
Is really... - a criminal (possibly)
If one lover chases another... -
Family focus? Yes
Family, hating Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's

Main Female Character - 20's-30's
Profession/status:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
Forest Yes
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 40%
Focus of story - Her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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