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A review by ana3333
Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards
2.0
This was a very rare Did-Not-Finish for me. I think it might actually be the first book in a hundred or so I gave up on.
Technically, it wasn't awful. The information presented was well-researched and brought to light some often-ignored parts of history. However, it was a little marred by the author's strangely judgemental tone. No random character can be presented without her including a sneering aside about their clothing styles, level of intelligence, or general personality.
To hear her tell it, every member of the royal family besides Queen Mary was a sniveling, ugly dimwit, and Mary wasn't all that great herself. The combination of dry facts and irrelevant, heavily opinionated bits made it hard to enjoy or even plod through the book. The author seemed about as unenthusiastic and disinterested in her subject as I felt after reading this.
Maybe I'll come back to it when I run out of actual interesting things to read, but I have my doubts.
Technically, it wasn't awful. The information presented was well-researched and brought to light some often-ignored parts of history. However, it was a little marred by the author's strangely judgemental tone. No random character can be presented without her including a sneering aside about their clothing styles, level of intelligence, or general personality.
To hear her tell it, every member of the royal family besides Queen Mary was a sniveling, ugly dimwit, and Mary wasn't all that great herself. The combination of dry facts and irrelevant, heavily opinionated bits made it hard to enjoy or even plod through the book. The author seemed about as unenthusiastic and disinterested in her subject as I felt after reading this.
Maybe I'll come back to it when I run out of actual interesting things to read, but I have my doubts.