![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, he is reunited with his young wife and his master, because, in this alternate London, slavery happens and Joe and his wife are owned by a kind older man who seems to love Joe very much. A kind man takes him to a hospital, where it’s determined he has epilepsy and that has caused him to lose his memory. He speaks French and English, but speaking English is illegal, and, beyond that and his name, he doesn’t remember much. The Kingdoms opens with Joe Tournier stepping off a train into a London that’s become a colony of France. Indeed, the back and forth in time kept me confused throughout the novel, but I think my brain pieced it together by the end, and I ended up falling in love with an unexpected love story. I expected an interesting tumble through time and a dizzying adventure. I’m not a huge fan of historical fiction, but I can’t resist something called genre bending. The Kingdoms is described as being genre bending with an alternate history and a battle between the French and the English. One Sentence Summary: When Joe receives a mysterious postcard featuring a lighthouse after just as mysteriously losing his memory, it leads him on a journey into the past and attempts to change the future. ![]()
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