Young Jewish girl Hannah Verde flees the Inquisition in Spain with her father after her mother is burned for heresy. They travel through Europe to England, calling themselves "Green" and making a new life for themselves as loyal Christians. Hannah´s father has a printing press and soon his skilled w...
I've been reading a lot of historical novels lately, and I quite enjoyed this one. While it has the familiar backdrop of Tudor England, with all the drama and heartbreak and beheadings you'd expect, the addition of an original character as the narrator gives the story new life. As a secret Jew prete...
So far I've really struggled to read this book. I don't like the main character. I find her very irritating and the story is really slow.UpdateI've totally given up on this book. I was unimpressed with the main character. She was inconsistent and even when I skipped ahead I couldn't connect with her...
It took me a while to read this novel and even longer to really get into it. Overall though I enjoyed the story and am still a huge fan of Philippa Gregory. :)
The Queen's Fool, like most of Philippa Gregory's books, is an engaging tale of a young woman in history caught between love and duty. In this instance, it follows the fictional Hannah Green, a Jewish immigrant from Spain who works in her father's bookshop in London disguised as a boy. Due to a chan...
For most of this book, the main character's story is completely subsumed by the machinations of the various royalty and wannabes that surround her--she's just along for the ride. It's only in the last quarter of the book or so that Hannah actually gets her own storyline. And the storyline goes like ...
Absolutely, in my opinion, the best Philippa Gregory book out there. This story was FANTASTIC! It was incredibly fast paced and enthralling to follow the "story" of the main character.
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