Cole did a fantastic job telling this story.
But sometimes you get some novellas that just really hit the spot and this was one of them. The premise is good, the idea is wonderful, but it's just missing something because there isn't a whole lot of room to tell a fully formed story. But gosh dang-it I want this to be longer! Now, for a novella, it's super cute and a well told story, I was just expecting a full-length novel.įor me, novellas sometimes don't quite hit the mark. I did not know this.I probably forgot because It's been a year since I first bought it. The Wild Knight has come for her, and her champion is after the most elusive prize of all: her heart.Īlright, so, I've had this book in my TBR pile for probably a year! I don't know why I haven't read it before now, but I hadn't and I finally did! And I just…I think I melted a bit when I read it.įirst of all, you need to know this is a novella. When the king makes a kiss from Agnes the prize of a tourney, a mysterious knight plows through his opponents to claim it. Reading Alyssa Cole's "Agnes Moor's Wild Knight"Agnes Moor knows her place in the court of King James IV-as one of the “exotics” in his employ. By examining Cole’s use of historical detail in her the tale of the black lady and the wild knight, I hope to show how the historical accuracy of the work not only subverts the conventions of traditional Scottish romances but how that subversion impacts the ways in which I approach and enjoy the story as a reader. As a reader, this accuracy is interesting for the setting it provides for the characters and the story, but as a historian I know that what is included or discarded can be deliberate choices of upholding or destroying narratives of marginalization and erasure. Cole’s retelling of the events of a 1508 jousting tournament held by James IV of Scotland where the winner of the tournament will win the kiss of a black lady is rooted in historical accuracy. What happens, however, when these settings are not just an enjoyable part of the story, but are part of the work I do as an academic historian? How do I use or ignore the knowledge I have while reading the romances I turn to for pleasure? My paper seeks to explore the identities I encompass as reader and historian through a study of Alyssa Cole’s Agnes Moor’s Wild Knight (2014). Authors work to include verisimilitude of place and manners, yet their novels are fiction, and their goal is a happily-ever-after not an historical study. Historical romance novels form a large subgenre of romance fiction.
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