After thinking on it, I had to drop my rating from a four to a three. I just couldn't come to terms with some of the story lines. The center of the whole story was just too unbelievable for me. This puts me in a difficult position. Do I continue with the series knowing this unbelievable story line w...
Setting: England, London, Whitehall PalaceTime: 1602, 1553Main characters: Brendan Prescott - an orphan raised in the Dudley household, Princess Elizabeth, Edward VI, William Cecil - Baron Burghley.First paragraph: "Everyone has a secret.Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within...
What an outstanding novel. Ironically, I'm not a Tudor fan, but this story was completely too good not to see where it would lead. Full of unlikely heroes and unlikely villains, I was captivated from the first page to the last. Like a Tudor mystery, I was engaged and found myself not so easily ab...
Brendan Prescott was abandoned as a baby and he was brought up in the Dudley family. Living with the Dudley boys isn’t always easy and they makes sure that Brendan knows he’s just a foundling. When he’s 20 he is brought to court to be squire to Robert Dudley. Soon an errand for Robert takes Brendan ...
The plot was a bit convoluted at times, but it was mostly a fun read with lots of action and courtly intrigue involving some familiar faces from the Tudor period interspersed with some purely fictional characters. The story was extremely unrealistic which bothered me a bit. For example, when Brendan...
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3.5 stars.Brendan Prescott is brought to the court of Edward VI to serve as squire to Lord Robert Dudley. Young Edward might sit on England's throne, but Robert's father John is the man in charge and with Edward's health going downhill there are plots aplenty over the succession. Brendan soon finds ...
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