Reviews

The Wars of the Roses by Michael Hicks

jennahazzard's review

3.0

This book was quite thorough and offered a look into the War of the Roses that was accessible and easy to read. At times, I was overwhelmed, but the brief rundown of the wars at the beginning worked as a good anchor in the text. Also has good diagrams and genealogy charts. Can't say I would have picked this up on my own (had to read for class), but I certainly learned a lot.

bibliophiliadk's review

1.0

I did NOT finish this book. I decided that it would be a completely waste of time after reading a third of it and still hadn't gotten anything useful out of it. Not because there wasn't anything useful in it´. But because it was so unbelievably pretentious that I hardly understood a word of it. Obviously Michael Hicks is extremely smart and knows a lot about the Wars of the Roses. He just doesn't have the talent of conveying his knowledge. If I hadn't known just a little about the people and happenings of this era I would have been lost long before I was.