Long story, cut short.....Hannah Verde, Spanish, Jewish, settles in England with her father after their flight from the Spanish Inquisition, given over to the Royal court of young King Edward as his Holy Fool, on his death she transfers to Queen Mary as her fool and here the story begins.....This is...
This is junk for your brain. Gregory is not a great writer, and she does play loosely with historical fact. She is writing fiction, however, so she gets a pass on that. The problem I had with this book was the ending. The protagonist, Hannah changes. She grows in the course of the novel. Somet...
Reading this book is reminding me of what drove me nuts about The Other Boleyn Girl: Gregory refuses to use semicolons, yet uses sentence constructions which require them. The book is filled with sentence fragments she throws in with a period or two separating them, hoping that they'll magically b...
Wow, another great book by Philippa Gregory! I thought this was just about as good as The Other Boleyn Girl. Once I finished it, I immediately went and added the sequel, The Virgin's Lover, to my wish list as I'm really looking forward to the story of Elizabeth. Both her and Robert Dudley were my...
Can I possibly express how insulting I found this novel to be? While the premise is interesting -- a young girl with second sight becomes the 'fool' or jester to Mary Tudor -- the way that PG goes about it is awful. The hook here is that PG has Hannah, the heroine, being a 'secret Jew' or Marrano fr...
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