dawnlikethemorning 's review for:

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

4.0

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I feel like I am the smartest person in the world for having read this in its entirety. Partially I thought ‘wow that book looks daunting why don’t I prove something to myself and read it all in a week / week and a half?’ And now that I finished it I feel smart but also lighter for it being done. It is both dreary, repetitive, sprinkled with typos, and interesting, cool and thorough. Elizabeth was complicated and dynamic and real and both good and bad and this book really gets that across. I could not keep up with all the names and largely just kept reading even if I couldn’t remember a person.. my book had character maps in the very back which I could have used !!and should have been in the front dammit. Anyway we love Elizabeth she’s great