A review by alreem
Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors by Conn Iggulden

5.0

I enjoyed reading every detail in this book! I usually get bored by reading historical novels, but this novel is a masterpiece and a worth-reading! I highly recommend it. The chapters were exciting from the beginning starting from the house of Tudor, the Lancaster, York, and lastly the combination of the Tudor house and Lancaster. The most exciting is that most of the narrative is inspired and taken from real events! The names of the characters and the historical information. I’m not fully aware if these events occurred exactly as it was written in history books, but I believe it ended in the same way. Sometimes I got lost because the writer would move to introduce or talk about different characters in one chapter, but I started figuring it out by continue reading the novel and at the end at all made sense. There are a lot of characters that are not being introduced in a proper way, so I got lost, but as I said, it all became clear when I reached the final chapters. Sometimes I thought that, okay finally wars are over! But the writer keeps surprising me with more wars! Now I knew why they called it wars of the roses! The house of York witnessed a continuous war for 100 years I think or so, they never had peace for a long time… but in the end, they got what they deserved. I give it 5/5.