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A review by arw1g10
The Captive Queen by Alison Weir
4.0
When I first started reading I was quite disappointed and a little concerned Alison Weir had jumped on the erotic fiction bandwagon that seems to have emerged in recent years. Saying that I don't think she ought to move to erotic fiction as the descriptions were fairy poor and not very realistic.
Thankfully however Weir did move on from this to portray more complex personalities and I did come to deeply care about the main character Eleanor. That said her mood seems unrealistically changeable and perhaps more smoothing of transitions in attitude would have been good.
At times this book was impossible to put down, mostly in the middle section, when waiting to see what the outcomes of Eleanor and Henry's latest seperation or quarrel would be. This did get old towards the end though Weir can hardly be blamed for the history of the time!
I would have liked to know more about Eleanor's children and what happened to them when they married. The book was fairly typically male focussed despite taking a female protagonist as the politics of the King and his sons was delved into far more than the lives of the daughters.
I would reccomend this book to people who enjoy historical fiction although I do not think it is as good as Weir's Innocent Traitor or The Lady Elizabeth both of which were astounding and emotional and deep in a way this seemed to be slightly lacking.
Thankfully however Weir did move on from this to portray more complex personalities and I did come to deeply care about the main character Eleanor. That said her mood seems unrealistically changeable and perhaps more smoothing of transitions in attitude would have been good.
At times this book was impossible to put down, mostly in the middle section, when waiting to see what the outcomes of Eleanor and Henry's latest seperation or quarrel would be. This did get old towards the end though Weir can hardly be blamed for the history of the time!
I would have liked to know more about Eleanor's children and what happened to them when they married. The book was fairly typically male focussed despite taking a female protagonist as the politics of the King and his sons was delved into far more than the lives of the daughters.
I would reccomend this book to people who enjoy historical fiction although I do not think it is as good as Weir's Innocent Traitor or The Lady Elizabeth both of which were astounding and emotional and deep in a way this seemed to be slightly lacking.