A review by ravensandlace
How to Survive in Tudor England by Toni Mount

4.0

Title: How to Survive in Tudor England

Author: Toni Mount

Genre: Nonfiction

Format: eARC

Series: NA

Star Rating: 4 stars

tw: murder, missing children, extreme punishment, death, physical discipline, illness, poisoning, injury, beheading, death of children, mentions of miscarriages and stillborn

A special thank you goes to Netgalley and Pen and Sword for providing me with a copy of this book. Please know that this does not influence my rating or thoughts on the book itself.

So this book has been on my Kindle for a while and I’m sure all of us have been wandering the same thing: how does one survive in Tudor England? Well, lucky for us, this book exists so if we were ever able to figure out time travel, we would know how to survive. Do I think I have a pretty good chance of surviving Tudor England? Probably not. I have several mental illnesses on top of some physical ones so I’m just going to be real and say that I probably would not survive. Plus, I have views about the patriarchy and religion that would probably get me jailed and other things.  

Since I rate nonfiction differently than regular fiction one thing I look for in a nonfiction book is readability. I have two things to say about the readability of this particular book. One, the readability of this book was great in the sense that the book was easy to read. If you don’t know anything about Tudor England, you’d be able to follow this book quite well. Things are explained along with people. . But, I read this book on a Kindle Paperwhite. I highly recommend you read a physical copy of this book. It has fun facts through the chapters but because I was on a Kindle, it put the facts right in the middle of a paragraph. Sometimes in the middle of a sentence, which would throw me off. This doesn’t hinder my rating at all but just something to consider when grabbing this book. 

Here are a couple of fun facts that I found interesting while reading this book and I thought you all should know about them too. 1. The Tudors only ruled for 118 years. The Plantagenets ruled for 331 years. 2. Henry VIII deposed (removed) of 72,000 people during his reign. 

Overall, this was a good book. It was written in a whimsy and fun way as there are “interviews” with important people during the time of the Tudors. I learned quite a bit, which is always something I look for in a nonfiction book. I also learned I wouldn’t be able to survive Tudor England at all, but I am okay with that information. I highly recommend this book to those who enjoy learning about Tudor England or to those who want to start learning about them.