A The Tudor Book Blog Review(http://www.thetudorbookblog.com).Summary:This story follows an orphaned stable boy, Brendon Prescott, on a search to discover his past, as well as save the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth.Found abandoned as a baby, he is taken in by the powerful Dudley family. When he i...
Gortner does a very fine job of putting his fictional characters in and among real historical figures for the Tudor era. At the end of the work, he gives full disclosure of what pieces of history he bent to tell his tale. His characters are flushed out and I cared what happened to them. The "s...
I really wanted to like this better, but I was confused by the politics of the time period, and all the double-crosses and deceptions, and felt like an idiot for not understanding why this person wanted to arrest that person, kill that person, or wield power over that other person. Because of th...