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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
"Finished" is incorrect. I surrendered. Checked this out twice and read close to 300 pages, but was never going to get through it. Lady Margaret Douglas was an insider with some definite intrigue (good friend and lady in waiting to Lady Mary Tudor) who married "late" (well into her twenties) after at least one court romance that ended in death (not her own), a stint in the Tower of London, and disapproval from her uncle King Henry VIII, her story was pieced together from historical events rather than her own papers, letters, or diaries. This made the usually spell-binding Allison Weir less so. Lots of battles, both military and psychological, but little insight because there was so little of the actual person to understand. White flag going up.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I should clarify, I TRIED to read this book. I worked on this on and off for two years and just couldn't get through it. Too much, too mundane.
This review was exhausting to write. I've put it off for ages because I took so many notes and the notes were overwhelming.
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I found the information in the book interesting but it was just so dry. I didn’t look forward to reading like I usually would. I was glad when I’d finished. I think maybe it just wasn’t the right time for me to read this.
The only drawback reading Allison Weir books is falling down the rabbit hole of appendices. I enjoy cross-referencing her sources with the ones I own. Or researching the sources I don't. That's how you wind up taking 2 months reading a book you devour. Weir's non-fiction and fiction are always on my bookshelves.
While the author did what she could with what is available as primary sources, but let's face it, women...even powerful women...of that time period didn't have much written about them. That means that most of the book is really about what was happening around Margaret rather than her own views / thoughts / ideas.
So while it did fill in a lot of things I didn't know about the whole Stewart saga, it didn't give me much of an impression of the woman herself, other than the fact that she was like many women of the time and wielded a lot of power from the shadows.
I was disappointed with the narrator. Her attempt at various voices and accents made every person who was quoted sound ponderous, more pedantic than engaging. I would rather she'd just read the quotes in her own voice. The continual default to low and gravelly for people's voices wore on my nerves.
A decent book, though I recommend people read it rather than listen to it.
So while it did fill in a lot of things I didn't know about the whole Stewart saga, it didn't give me much of an impression of the woman herself, other than the fact that she was like many women of the time and wielded a lot of power from the shadows.
I was disappointed with the narrator. Her attempt at various voices and accents made every person who was quoted sound ponderous, more pedantic than engaging. I would rather she'd just read the quotes in her own voice. The continual default to low and gravelly for people's voices wore on my nerves.
A decent book, though I recommend people read it rather than listen to it.