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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Not my favourite as it doesn't follow someone who was a real person in the Tudor dynasty, only a fictional character serving those who were.
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The Queen’s Fool is about Hannah Green, a Jewish girl who fled Spain with her father. She has “the sight", which makes her able to foresee the future. She's appointed as a holy fool for King Edward, but soon ends up working for multiple powerful royals and nobles. As a spy, she has close contact with people like Queen Mary, Princess Elizabeth, and the influential Robert Dudley, and she finds qualities to admire in each of them, even when they're working against each other. Her allegiances and loyalties are not so much fluid as complex.
Gregory knows her craft well enough to spin a tale that you want to see through to fruition. She makes you stay, even at those moments when you are shaking your head and saying, “I don’t think so.” So it may be too fictionalization at times, but it kept me reading well past 12 am on a school night ;-)
Gregory knows her craft well enough to spin a tale that you want to see through to fruition. She makes you stay, even at those moments when you are shaking your head and saying, “I don’t think so.” So it may be too fictionalization at times, but it kept me reading well past 12 am on a school night ;-)
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm a sucker for a book on sale for $2. This was... fine. For $2.
The years between Henry VIII and Elizabeth are less familiar to me, so the light-touch history parts were interesting enough. But I could not get on board with the fictional main character. She was implausible on a lot of levels. Basically, I preferred it whenever we spent time with ANY of the three monarchs. The lead character and her relations were kind of insufferable.
The years between Henry VIII and Elizabeth are less familiar to me, so the light-touch history parts were interesting enough. But I could not get on board with the fictional main character. She was implausible on a lot of levels. Basically, I preferred it whenever we spent time with ANY of the three monarchs. The lead character and her relations were kind of insufferable.
Not as good as the others, but still interesting.
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes