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sophronisba's review against another edition
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.25
A brisk, readable, and sometimes even darkly funny biography of the doomed king. Charles does not come across as very likable, but that is hardly Hibbert's fault.
katymvt's review against another edition
2.0
I kept finding my mind wandering as I was reading this. It didn't hold my interest very well. And, I didn't really get the feeling that I knew Charles I at all at the end of the book.
julesmathhart's review against another edition
3.0
A very accessible biography on an often overshadowed monarch. Hibbert's book gives a "portrait in the round" of Charles I and the larger forces at work in England during the time of the Civil War.
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