Too much Shakespeare, sex and letters. Not enough actual story. Charles II comes off as a tool (who certainly knows how to work his tool) and Jane comes off as a silly heartsick girl without an ounce of sense.
Castles, Customs and Kings edited by Debra Brown and the late M.M. Bennetts and has essays from such historical fiction authors such as Katherine Ashe, Gillian Bagwell, Nancy Bilyeau, Sandra Byrd, Stephanie Cowell, Christy English, Barbara Kyle just to name a few, go here to read more about these au...
Setting: England, Derbyshire, Hardwick Manor, LondonTime: 1539-1567, Prologue and Epilog 1603Main characters: Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot - Countess of Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Brooke - eventually wife of William Parr (brother of Katherine Parr)First paragraph, Prologue: "She stood at the westward-facing...
I had such high hopes for this one, a retelling of the life of Bess of Hardwick. This novel is full of descriptions, some sex, encounters with Tudor royalty, a nasty relation, but cuts off the final, most interesting part of Bess's life -- when she was Countess of Shrewsbury, and her life became ent...
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