Thank you Ms. Bilyeau for giving readers Joanna Stafford. You have given readers a character with limitless potential. I must conceded I did find Joanna a little naive and perhaps flighty but those things were a result of her cloistered living. Generally those characteristics in a protagonist drive ...
DNF @ 23%. I was quite excited about starting The Crown. Usually I don't seek out historical fiction set in Tudor England but the prospect of reading this with the More Historical Than Fiction book club was too good to miss. This is the first installment of a series following Joanna Stafford, a...
The Crown is a debut novel?! Nancy Bilyeau has some serious skill. This was truly a fantastic novel.The characters had a lot to do with my enjoyment. Joanna was such a wonderful character. She evolved so much as a person through the course of The Crown. I can't wait to meet her again in The Chalice ...
I enjoyed this book. The novel takes place during King Henry the VIII’s reign and it is the story of a nun forced to find a powerful crown, a relic, which could change the future of the realm. This is a Tudor mystery/thriller of a story that I found it hard to put down. The characters were engaging...
This was a great read. I utterly loved every page, from beginning to end. I doubt I will write a review, as I have the second coming up for the blog tour. Just know: the hype is warranted. The Crown is a great Tudor historical fiction mystery. If you've thought about reading it, do so. Now.
This was an entertaining historic thriller which was perfect for my current mood. The author did a very good job with her history and interweaving a clever story between these times.
If you are a fan of Margaret Frazer's Sister Frevisse mysteries - AND you are a fan of The Tudors (either the TV show or the historical time period in general) - there is no question: you should read this book immediately!An intransigent novice leaves her cloistered order to be present at the execut...
I dare you to read the first sentence and not want to keep going. From that oomph of a beginning, Bilyeau's fantastically fun and engrossing historical novel takes what is an overdone era (for me) -- the Tudors -- and provides a fun angle: the story of a noblewoman-turned-nun who finds herself an en...
Much has been made of Henry's divorce from his first wife, paving the way for the Protestant faith to take hold in England, yet little in historical fiction has dared approach what the people must have felt to have their only known faith stripped from them and made treasonous. In The Crown, Nancy Bi...
The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau has been described as a cross between Philippa Gregory and Dan Brown (Library Journal) and that is not far off.The protagonist, Joanna Stafford, is a novice Dominican nun during the turbulent times of King Henry VIII. His first divorce is history and the dissolution of man...
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