This is not a bad book. It just isn't as good as Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Sun follows the story of a young disabled boy who is imprisoned for a rape he did not commit because the "scandal" of a well known, respected wife of a man of po...
Apart from the bare historical bones and facts of Isabella's story, there is little in this book to be recommended. I posted previously about Downey's offensive, clumsy, and one-dimensional views and explanations of such sensitive topics as The Inquisition and religious persecution. I can't real...
Review coming soon.
3.5 starsOccasionally, I'll get so lost in a story that I forget to wear my writer's hat. This was one of those times. The storytelling just took me away. The narrator did a wonderful job, a very talented woman.
Since I knew Queen Isabella was the financier of Columbus, a force behind the Spanish Inquisition, and the mother of Katherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, I thought I would find this book about her interesting, but that was an underestimation because Isabella: The Warrior Queen turned out t...
I will straight-up say I would have enjoyed this a lot more had I not gotten so caught up in the Traveling Pants series.For me, this was a little like a next-generation re-do of the first series. It's sweet in the right places, it shares the same core message of healthy female friendship, but it jus...
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