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A review by herbalmoon
Trinity by Conn Iggulden
1.0
I guess the author doesn't think his readers will fact-check him from time to time, so he just writes whatever the hell he wants.
I'm only about four chapters in, so I'm sure there are more inaccuracies to come; but the first one that caught my eye is incorrectly referring to Edmund Beaufort as the Earl of Somerset.
"Gosh," I thought. "That seems late, considering when Pippa Gregory had, she was already referring to him as the Duke of Somerset. Let me check wiki and see who's wrong."
Conn.
The beginning of the book says we're in 1454 and Edmund was promoted six years before.
(*headdesk*)
I don't mind when the author bends time a little to smooth the flow of the story and then explains it away in the historical notes (as authors often do), but--at least in the last book--there aren't any.
Oh well. When Elizabeth Woodville shows up and he makes her out to be an evil shrew, I'll have concrete proof he's a Lancastrian with chronology issues.
I'm only about four chapters in, so I'm sure there are more inaccuracies to come; but the first one that caught my eye is incorrectly referring to Edmund Beaufort as the Earl of Somerset.
"Gosh," I thought. "That seems late, considering when Pippa Gregory had
Spoiler
Edmund screwing the queenConn.
The beginning of the book says we're in 1454 and Edmund was promoted six years before.
(*headdesk*)
I don't mind when the author bends time a little to smooth the flow of the story and then explains it away in the historical notes (as authors often do), but--at least in the last book--there aren't any.
Oh well. When Elizabeth Woodville shows up and he makes her out to be an evil shrew, I'll have concrete proof he's a Lancastrian with chronology issues.