Mary Elizabeth Reynolds

Book is insane

Revisado: 08-18-20

Badly narrated badly told doesn’t make much sense not sure how it ever got published I stuck with it hoping it would make sense it never did

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Bad ending

Revisado: 06-14-20

A lot of the parts I wanted to fast forward through but I kept waiting for something to happen it never did especially at the end

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I Could Not Finish It

Revisado: 07-14-18

If I had not come back to this page to check and see if this was a juvenile selection, you would not be reading this. Alas, this book was not classified as such, so it lacks even that redemption. I love time travel, and until this book never found one that I did not like. I won't waste any more time on this book by going over the ridiculous plot. Yes, when you read science fiction, credulity should go on standby, BUT most authors attempt to mate reality and their world until you can also believe in their world for a bit. However, this author didn't manage to convince me that the earth is hollow. Yes, hollow with an entire civilization living in it. This isn't a fairytale, it's supposed to be real science fiction, but it's really just inane, like a bad sitcom. Don't waste money or credits.

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100% Fiction and 0% Real History

Revisado: 04-25-18

I think most people read historical fiction because they want to be entertained and they want to learn about a time period or a place. At least this is what I want. Thus historical fiction writers have a duty to present things accurately as they can, or they should just call it fiction. This is just fiction. Sure the author got the timeline right, mostly, but not a thing else. Rather than reveal the causations of events he invents a fifteenth-century MacGyver to create them the way the author thinks they should happen. This is a complicated period that should only be taken on by someone who is an expert in Medieval England, This guy is an English professor, which means the book is written well, but it resembles the Game of Thrones more than it does the real War of the Roses.

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Disappointing, and a little odd

Revisado: 08-24-16

I like Ian Mortimer, his books are interesting and humorous. This one, not so much. This is odd considering the subject. No matter what you think of Edward the Third, he certainly wasn't boring, maybe because there was little new here and the writing lacked the humor and irony I associate with Mortimer's writing. The bizarre thing is his pet theory that Edward the Second wasn't murdered in Berkely Castle. This isn't a new theory, but this fact plays way too much a part of this story. He doesn't even tell you why he feels so strongly about that other than to lead you to a paper he published in an academic journal. I read the paper, I am unconvinced. Thinking that Edward the Second would have had the good sense to actually escape armed guard and wander around Europe for twenty years as a penniless monk is ludicrous. He did not have good sense, common sense, or any at all or he would not have lost the throne. However, that has little to do with Edward the Third, which is the point I was trying to make about this book, the theory plays way too much a part in this book.

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Should be called, The English and their politics

Revisado: 08-24-16

As an anglophile, I gobble up British history, unless it's political history. Whig and Tory must be printed 50 times in every chapter. This is a huge book, just note that 20 AD Thru 1680 is a mere quarter of the book while the rest is only through the last world war. To me, that it makes it profoundly unbalanced, and to me, boring.

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Egyptian history is fascinating, this book is not.

Revisado: 08-24-16

At first, I thought it was the narrator, but no, it's the writing. The story is told in a confusing manner and the prose is so lackluster it could be a high school textbook. I have some small knowledge of Egyptian history, but if I didn't I wouldn't have been able to follow it at all. Anyone interested in Egyptian History try Barbara Mertz, Red Land, Black Land or Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt or one of the great courses.

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Old school gothic

Revisado: 02-07-16

Really enjoyed this, reminds me of mary Stewart without the Victorian nanny. And this narrator is always wonderful.

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Talented with Words and Cats

Revisado: 06-10-15

I found this to be a beautifully written and read book about how an animal or animals can save a human, body and soul. You will laugh and you will cry, but I found it moving beyond measure. He writes about the struggles of a creative person living outside of society and self-medicating to feel ok about not fitting in...if you cannot identify that, you might not enjoy it as much, but at the end, I could not believe how he wrote about the end of the cat's life. I could not have done it.

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Rare biography of a true knight

Revisado: 04-13-15

the rarity of a volume about an average man who broke the rules of the Middle Ages to become a figure of myth and greatness. Thus the focus is on some people and incidents that do not get much attention. Such as the details between Henry the second and his battles with his sons rather than the killing of Thomas Becket. Worth the time.

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