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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Patricia D’Arcy Laughlin’s Sacrifices For Kingdoms follows Elizabeth Angelique Richardson, a Trinidadian philanthropist whose royal garden party invitation brings her into Prince Michael Alexander Stephen’s orbit while she is in Europe preparing “God Has No Gender,” a paid lecture for the children’s home she founded in Trinidad. Michael is heir to a throne already pushing him toward marriage, and Elizabeth’s intelligence as much as her beauty makes him imagine her beside him far sooner than palace life can safely manage. Private dinners lead to palace rooms, where family scrutiny follows every glance. Elizabeth keeps one crucial truth from him: Edward du Beauchamp is her estranged husband in Trinidad, where their young twins make the life she left impossible to treat as finished.
Patricia D’Arcy Laughlin’s Sacrifices For Kingdoms is a grand royal romance, and Laughlin is excellent at mixing glamour and duty. The palace scenes have a wonderful sense of occasion, from the Ambassadors Ball in Elizabeth’s red gown—and a famous song—to Susan and John Jamestown’s castle, where vineyard picnics make the courtship feel almost cinematic. The best part is Elizabeth. I love a heroine who can step into a royal dining room, soothe an embarrassed mother, and still hold her own against hostile questions about women’s rights and religion. Michael is fascinating, but personally, I think it is Elizabeth who makes him that way. Would I read a book about Michael without her? Maybe, but there's another spanner in the works that is fun too. This book is full of surprises! Well written and with some good sizzle, lovers of royal romance and strong, intelligent female leads will adore this.
