His Head on a Platter by Alan Gold~Blog Tour(Excerpt)

 Publisher: Romaunce Books

Publication Date: 22nd September 2023

Genre: Historical

Summary:

Baroque Rome 1611

In a city where women are seen not heard, Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist.

She grows up in a family of painters – all men and she knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future because she’s a woman. She’s clever, ambitious, resilient, and driven and wants to experience the world, but she knows her place and she belongs to her father and her future husband.

She goes from lesson to lesson, honing her craft and paints in private but she’s only allowed to paint the women who inspire her. When her mother died her father became very strict and followed the pope’s edicts about modesty, limiting the subjects she could paint.

When one of her father’s collaborators enters her life, Tassi, he becomes her tutor, a handsome dashing figure, who represents everything that a life of freedom might offer. Until the unthinkable happens and her torture begins.

Review:
Firstly thank you to Love Books Tours, Romaunce Books and Alan Gold for having me on this tour and sending me the book.Unfortunately, my copy of the book is currently somewhere in the post(i think my postman likes to torture me) so i haven't got to read this fabulous-sounding book just yet. But it does mean that i get to give you a little sneak peak of the book instead before giving my review a little bit later on when I've read the book.
Ive adored every Alan Gold book I've read so far this year, I've been lucky enough to be on the tour for two others, and i cant see myself loving this one any less.

Excerpt

Anger does not even begin to define the feelings coursing through my veins, causing me to lose the composure that defines the lady I am, nor delineates a limitless woman such as me. I am a woman who has achieved great success in a profoundly troubled life. To read of my life and accomplishments will be like listening to a performance of the buffoons and charlatans of the Commedia dell’Arte. But now that I am writing the story of my life, I am reliving events long buried because of the pain they caused me. Pain so powerful, so tortured, that I pray no other woman ever experiences it.

As I come to write this, the story of my life, I am 48 years of age. A matron. But I am unlike other matrons of my age. I do not sit by a fire, my shoulders wrapped in blankets, legs swathed in rugs, comforted by children and grandchildren who attend to my every need. No, I am robust, vigorous and forceful. How could I not be, having lived through the events which formed my life?

How intriguing does that sound! Now I really can't wait to get stuck into this book, keep an eye out for my review!

Krystina xx