Perhaps I am a harsher judge because I have read such excellent historical fiction about these periods in Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan for inclusion into a college library collection? Regardless, Caterina's role as written and her personality itself, both of those- too revisionist and not possi...
O, Juliet by Robin Maxwell was a pleasure to read. The imagery was especially enjoyable. Maxwell uses lots of descriptive adjectives to appeal to the five senses of the reader. It is easy to vividly visualize the setting of the story. Maxwell adapts to the Shakespearean language decently. There w...
When I started this book I knew it was the classic Romeo and Juliet story, but I wanted a different ending! It is such a good love story that has so much potential for a happy ever after. But alas it has the same tragic ending. IF you like the original Romeo and Juliet this is a good adaptation. ...
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell is a great novel that tells the life of Anne Boleyn from beginning to end. This all starts off when Elizabeth (Anne's daughter) get a hold of her mother's diary from one of her moms waiting ladies and gets to read her mother struggle through life. ...
If you're a follower of my blog, then surely you know that of all English monarchs, Elizabeth I is in No way my favourite...Sorry- but that's just the way it is. There's just something cold, calculating and non-feeling about her- for me..yet, I keep reading more and more books on her. There's s...
Bem, este demorou-me meses a acabar. Não sei se este foi o livro errado á hora errada ou se realmente não tinha todos os elementos de que necessito para a historia me "agarrar". Também culpo a minha veia de bookworm, que me faz ter estantes repletas de livros para ler, continuar a comprar e ainda...
Nell Caxton and Princess Elizabeth of York are great friends, both headstrong young ladies, who want the best for both of their families. After the death of King Edward IV and the murky succession of Edward V and Richard III, the two young boys, King Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York...
The shallow water and tangle of slippery roots in the mangrove swamp behind Zu-dak-lul made footing difficult and dangerous, and here mosquitoes in profusion swarmed us. I constantly feared losing the Claytons’ journal that I’d packed into a crude satchel of sailcloth I had stitched to the best o...