I love historical fiction. It is one of my passions and expecially history about Henry VIII. This book starts out with a fierce battle between a son and father. The innocent fighter turns out to be someone of great significance in history but he was a pitiful creature in his youth that people pitied.
So far, I love the viewpoint of this book. It is not a viewpoint I have read or even considered before but I am enjoying it.
Okay, so that was early on. I really do NOT like this book. It's just too hard to read. It's a non-fiction book. I'm not learning anything so I'm not going to struggle to figure out what is going on. This book jumps around all over the place. I don't have to have linear I just would like to have a story to follow. The reader is supposed to have a real knowledge of all things Henry V III to read this book. Very little is explained and the conversations are one sided. We are supposed to assume the other side of the conversation and we are supposed to know who Anne is and all the other characters of that time.
I do know most of the characters but the way this book was written I am not sure who is talking all of the time and at what point of time we are in. I was so excited about this book at first because it is written about Thomas Cromwell and I was interested in his viewpoint of that time in history. It has become a chore to read this book and originally I thought I would just skip ahead several chapters at a time to get to the ending but now I have started a new book and it is unlikely I will go back to finish this book.
What a waste of good subject matter. This is why I keep this blog so that I don't read authors like this a second time.
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