by Bruce Holsinger
This book was both everything I love and everything I loathe about historical fiction. Everything I love includes characters pulled straight out of history: Chaucer, Gower, Richard the II, Hawkswood, and plots that involve books and codes and secret symbols. Everything I loathe is, ironically...
Definitely not a book to be read in a quick setting. Are you into literary figures? Historical fiction? Historical mystery filled with spies and intrigue? Something that takes place in the Middle Ages? All of the above in one book? Sure! Let’s take it! I’d have to say, there can be no better descrip...
This book took me a surprisingly long time to get through. I liked it, but somehow it just wasn't absorbing. While I was reading it, I found myself interested in the story and the characters, but when I set it down, I didn't feel an immediate compulsion to pick it up again. So a book I was expect...
As Bruce Holsinger portrays London, Southwark, and Westminster in A Burnable Book, you can't swing a cat without hitting three plotters. In this novel, the plots begin with a book of prophecies that claim to predict the deaths of all the English kings from William the Conqueror to Richard II. Of cou...
I really wish Goodreads would invest in a half star system. I think this book was better than three stars but not quite four stars. I found certain parts to be brilliant for example the letter exerpts that we later find are written by Seguina d'Orange. The description of Prince Edward "Their lord, ...
This is a finely written novel that will pull you in and keep you guessing until the very end. I listened to this on audiobook, so there were a few times that I thought I must be getting close to the end only to be surprised by another plot twist. I am not a great reader of mysteries, so I will not ...
Two pieces of disclosure to get out at the very beginning: Prof. Holsinger was my instructor an excellent class entitled "Plagues, Witches and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction." I also received an advance reader's copy of the book through his publisher.So, with all of that said: wow, what a rid...
pub date Feb 2014Looks scrumptious, thanks Wanda, and by turn, Chelsea. Hattip and a demure bob to you both.
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